Sara Spohnheimer - Vitae
EDUCATION
2005 Graduate study, Florence, Italy
1998 Bachelor of Fine Art, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
EXHIBITIONS
2026 Iowa Artists Statewide Online Exhibition
2025 Art Walk, Ames, IA
Iowa Artists Statewide Online Exhibition
2024 Solo Exhibition, Green Hills Retirement Community, Ames, IA
2023 Solo Exhibition, Reconnecting, UUFA Gallery in the Round, Ames, IA
2017 Solo Exhibition, Green Hills Retirement Community, Ames, IA
2011 Gift of Pure Synergy Exhibition, Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, IA
2010 Gift of Pure Synergy Exhibition, UUFA Gallery in the Round, Ames, IA
2009 Iowa Artists Regional Show, Story City, IA
2008 Local Artists Exhibition, Swinging Bridge Studio, Story City, IA
Solo Exhibition, Java Lava Coffeehouse, Ames, IA
Art Walk, Ames, IA
FOCUS Grant Reunion Exhibition, ISU, Ames, IA
2007 Solo Exhibition, Ragtime in Randall, Randall, IA
STORY! Exhibition, Swinging Bridge Studio, Story City, IA
Three-Artist Exhibition, Green Hills Retirement Community, Ames, IA
Public Art at Inis Grove Park, Ames, IA
2006 STORY! Exhibition, Swinging Bridge Studio, Story City, IA
Three Studios Exhibition, Coe’s Flowers, Ames, IA
Three Studios Exhibition, Dabble Books, Story City, IA
2005 Iowa Artists State Show, Webster City, IA
Iowa Artists Regional Show, Ames, IA
2004 Ames Brush Club Exhibition, Mary Greeley Medical Center, Ames, IA
Solo Exhibition, Randall - Our Sunday Best, Randall, IA
Ames Brush Club Exhibition, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Ames, IA
Ames Brush Club Exhibition, Somerset Credit Union
Iowa Artists Regional Show, Webster City, IA
PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
2025 2nd Place in 2D category, Iowa Artists Statewide Online Exhibition
2024 Painting commissioned by McFarland Clinic Radiology Dept., Ames IA
2019-2020 Private commissions to paint Venetian scenes
2013-2015 Collaborative painting from remote, Redwood City, CA
2011 Featured with Gift of Pure Synergy, “In the Artist’s Studio”with Mollie Cooney, KCCI TV, Des Moines
2010 Patent applicant, Art technique
2010 Leader, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Art workshop, ISU
2009 Best of Show, Iowa Artists Regional Show, Story City, IA
2007-2008 Board Member, Swinging Bridge Studio, Story City, IA