Are you an artist interesting in publicly exhibiting your artwork? The AnimeIowa Art Exhibit may be just for you. Read the Art Exhibit page for details on how to sign up.

Attention artists! We are still looking for people to submit art for this years Art Exhibit. Have your art displayed for exhibition and compete for prizes. Sign-up information can be found on the Art Exhibit page while more information can be found in the forum.

For those of you who are unaware, the Art Exhibit is where artists can submit their art for public display and competition at AnimeIowa. The rules and sign-up details are now available on the Art Exhibit page. If you have any questions be sure to contact artshow@animeiowa.com.

AnimeIowa would like to thank every artist who submitted their artwork into the Art Exhibition Show this year. We know that there were a few bumps along the way getting information out to everyone before the Convention this year. We apologize for that and hope to have things smoothed out and ready for next year’s Anime Iowa Art Exhibition Show.

“What’s this, there is a show again next year???”

Yes there will be a show next year, so start thinking of what art pieces you would like to submit ^_^

We are working on the 2013 Art Exhibition Contract already. We hope to have it out to the public with plenty of time to spread the word to everyone for the 2013 show!

Now onto the Fun part of the announcement  !!!

This year’s Art Show Judges were two of our very own guests Chris Malone and Jessy Turner. A big thank you goes out to them for their help in judging this year’s show!

Anime Iowa is proud to announce the 2012 Art Exhibition Winners!!!

• 1^st Place Watercolor by Meredith Dillman titled “Koi Mermaid”
• 1^st Place Fantasy Sculpture by Hannah Munden titled “Feathered Wyvern”
• 1^st Place Ink Drawing by Erika Matsuyama titled “Cooro”
• 2^nd Place Digital Media Creation by Meng Wang titled “Howlin’ ”
• 2^nd Place Mixed Media by Joan Gordan titled “Wishing Tree”
• 2^nd Place Digital Art by Jake Ruetin titled “Winston”
• 3^rd Place Textile Creation by Victoria ‘Beanchan’ Luck titled “Sokura Bento”
• 3^rd Place Watercolor by Joan Gordan titled “Sounds of Japan”
• 3^rd Place Mixed Media by Joan Gordan titled “Sunflower Happiness”

Honorable Mentions :

• Crochet Sculpture by Megan Daly titled “Vodka Mutini”
• Minature Texture Creation by Keely titled “Tiny Kimono”
• Acrylic Painting by Timothy Dutcher titled “Dandelions”

Best in Showgoes to: Hannah Munden for her fantasy sculpture titled “Feathered Wyvern” The Best in Show winner receives a Sponsor Membership for Anime Iowa 2013!!!

Congrats to all of our 2012 Anime Iowa Art Exhibition winners!! We hope to see everyone that participated in this year’s show back for the 2013 Art Exhibition Show!!!

Please remember to leave feedback about this year’s show so that we can help make the next show even better.