900Views Pat Boddy

A self-taught artist finds ways to support a broad-based arts community and connect across the state - check in with Art Week's Niq Thomas of Cedar Rapids, an abstract painter with community vision. Raygun will host Thomas' "Myths and Flowers" for Art Week - the latest in this community-builder's efforts for artist-to-artist and neighbor-to-neighbor connections on this week's 900Views.

Neighbor-to-neighbor community building can take creative forms when artists lead the way - please check this preview of an upcoming interview with Abstract Painter Niq Thomas of Cedar Rapids.

Can you create community through one-on-one artistic relationships? Painter, Muralist and Mainframe Fellow Jill Wells sees the path - through fresh approaches to mentoring youth.

The hidden teachings in the Disability Rights Mural by painter Jill Wells. A Mainframe Creative Incubator Fellow, Jill Wells creates inclusion through making the visual tactile - find out more in this preview of an upcoming 900Views episode.

Community requires spaces where artists can express their authentic selves. In the largely white state of Iowa, Mainframe Creative Incubator Fellow Cameron Gray helps other black artists find those spaces - channeling the spirit of the historic, black-majority community of Buxton, Iowa.

Preview of our upcoming interview with artist and Iowa Creative Incubator Fellow Cameron Gray