Creston Arts

Creston Arts 501(c)(3) Art Council for SW Iowa. Creston Arts is dedicated to the cultural enrichment of Creston area through the arts.

Located in the heart of Creston, IA, Creston: Arts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit working to promote visual, performing, and literary arts with the goal of providing a range of resources for developing and established artists. Creston: Arts serves as the voice for the arts community. We strive to connect and support the arts in the community as a means to create transformation and believe the arts are a public good critical to our region’s success.

Early Out After School Art! First bubble painting, then still lifes with donated veggies from Dee’s Catering!
09/02/2026

Early Out After School Art! First bubble painting, then still lifes with donated veggies from Dee’s Catering!

09/02/2026

Painting with bubbles in After School Art. First bubbles, then plastic wrap covered in paint. 😊

Word is getting out! We trippled our group size at Messy Makers today. Woo hoo!The group dabbled in the bubble paintin...
09/02/2026

Word is getting out! We trippled our group size at Messy Makers today. Woo hoo!

The group dabbled in the bubble painting that After School Art will be doing today, and then had some good old free choice time with paint, markers, stamps and stickers.

Thank you to all the grown ups that brought their kids by. It was so nice to meet you!

Thanks also to our mission partnership ISSB and Spotlight School of Dance that helped make programs like this possible!

Only 3 days until the opening of Generations in Bloom at the Depot Gallery in Creston!Featuring the work of Bailey Fry-S...
09/01/2026

Only 3 days until the opening of Generations in Bloom at the Depot Gallery in Creston!

Featuring the work of Bailey Fry-Schnormeier, Leona Fry-Schnormeier, and MayLing Chuong-Wignall, this exhibit brings together ceramics, fiber art, and paintings by three talented artists connected through art, mentorship, friendship, and family.

Come see the work and celebrate the opening of this special exhibit. We hope to see you there!

There is still room in our Wednesday After School Art Program, 2:30-4:00. Includes a snack and a craft and relaxed vibe...
09/01/2026

There is still room in our Wednesday After School Art Program, 2:30-4:00. Includes a snack and a craft and relaxed vibe. If your child would rather do open studio, instead of working on a planned project, that's fine too. $7 to attend. Go to crestonarts.org/events-calendar to register.

08/31/2026

And it's on! We had so much fun at our last raku/horsehair workshop that we are going to do it again!!! Here's the thing, guys- this requires NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE. The pots are already made and we are just going to show you how to decorate it with either the raku or horsehair method! What we really want to do is to have fun with all of you while learning a really cool technique. And, guess what? You get to take your beautiful pot home with you! How do you sign up? Just call the Corning Center for Fine Arts at 641-322-4549 to save one of the time slots listed on the flyer. BEGINNERS WELCOME!

"Generations in Bloom" is a collection of artwork created and curated by three artists whose lives have become connected...
08/31/2026

"Generations in Bloom" is a collection of artwork created and curated by three artists whose lives have become connected through art, mentorship, friendship, and family.

Years ago, Bailey Fry-Schnormeier, an art teacher at Creston Community High School, taught May Ling Chuong-Wignall during her formative high school years. Bailey encouraged May Ling to cultivate her passion for art and helped her begin imagining a future in which creativity could remain an important part of her life. That mentorship continued beyond high school as May Ling followed a similar path and pursued art at Coe College.

Over the years, the relationship grew beyond that of teacher and student. May Ling remained close with Bailey and her family, including Bailey's daughter, Leona Fry-Schnormeier, who has grown up knowing May Ling not simply as her mother's former student, but as a friend, fellow maker, and artist to look up to.

Now, the three come together not as teacher, student, and daughter, but as three artists with distinct voices of their own.

Throughout Generations in Bloom, flowers and the natural world become a common language. Bailey's sculptural ceramics explore organic forms through richly layered surfaces, carved imagery, flowers, leaves, insects, and other elements drawn from nature. May Ling's paintings interpret botanical subjects through expressive color, gesture, and observation. Leona's fiber work transforms familiar floral forms through crochet, texture, pattern, and the intimacy of handwork.

Their materials are different, but their work continually finds its way back to the same place: growth.

Flowers bloom, change, fade, return, and grow alongside one another. Creative lives develop in much the same way. We learn from the people who came before us, find our own voices, and eventually become part of someone else's inspiration.

Generations in Bloom celebrates that cycle—the influence of a teacher, the growth of a student into a fellow artist, and the emergence of another young artist finding her own path.

It is a celebration of mentorship becoming friendship, friendship becoming family, and creativity continuing to bloom from one generation to the next.

Check out all of the workshops, events and open studios we have going on at Creston Arts this fall! Go to crestonarts.o...
08/27/2026

Check out all of the workshops, events and open studios we have going on at Creston Arts this fall! Go to crestonarts.org/events-calendar for more information and to register. Hope to see you there!

It was a lovely night last night at the Weary Ramblers concert. Thank you to everyone that came out and to the goof bal...
08/27/2026

It was a lovely night last night at the Weary Ramblers concert. Thank you to everyone that came out and to the goof balls that helped me in the Creston Arts booth!

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411 W Adams Street
Creston, IA
50801

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Monday 9am - 3pm
Tuesday 9am - 3pm
Wednesday 9am - 3pm
Thursday 9am - 3pm
Friday 9am - 3pm

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+16417157441

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