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Encounter Center exhibit to showcase student artwork (July 10, 2007) – Siouxland students of all ages are invited to participate in “An Artful Encounter” at 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 17 and Thursday, July 19 in the Discovery Gallery at the Sioux City Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center. Admission and all materials will be free. Registration is not required but seating will be limited to 45 students. Under the direction of mixed-media artist Anne Steinhoff, students will use a variety of materials to create an exhibit for the Encounter Center, now under construction on the Missouri Riverfront. Marcia Poole, director of the Center, will draw from interviews with the young artists to write text for the exhibit. The $3.5 million Encounter Center is being funded entirely by Missouri River Historical Development, Inc. (MRHD). It will open in late fall to meet the Sioux City Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center’s expanded mission of “commemorating a history of encounters.” The Encounter Center exhibit will be Steinhoff’s second project at the Center. She directed “Imprints” with more than 100 St. Augustine Indian Mission students from Winnebago, Neb. “Imprints” was on exhibition through April as part of “A Timely Encounter” with portraits by photographer Don Doll, S.J. Steinhoff’s textural designs feature combinations of handmade paper, clay, feathers, beads, silk threads and acrylic paint and ink. A member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, she participated in Omaha’s Public Art Exposure Project, creating Big-Hearted Doe displayed in Omaha’s Heartland of America Park; and “One Strong Voice: A Tribute to Working Women,” for Nebraska Furniture Mart. Poole is the author of “A Way of Life: A History of the Sioux City Stockyards” and the upcoming “A Way of Life: Stories from the Yards,” to be released at the Encounter Center’s grand opening. She writes “Good Eats” for "The Sioux City Journal.” For more information about “An Artful Encounter,” contact Poole at 712-224-5242. The Sioux City Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center is a private, non-profit institution, built and sustained by Missouri River Historical Development, Inc. (MRHD) and located on the Missouri Riverfront, exit 149, off I-29; 712-224-5242; www.siouxcitylcic.com.
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