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SUMMARY:BLUE\, Quilted Artworks - Green Hills Art Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Visit the Green Hills Art Gallery to see BLUE\, Quilted Artworks by Central Iowa Textile Artists. \nAll the pieces are done in a variety of blues. \nThe exhibit will be on display in the Green Hills Art Gallery until Tues.\, May 12. \nHours: Mon. – Fri.\,  8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Sat. –  Sun.\, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. \nImage: “Cascade” by Carolyn Abbott \n2205 Green Hills Dr.\nAmes\, Iowa 50014 \n515-316-6775
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/blue-quilted-artworks-green-hills-art-gallery-2/2026-05-02/
LOCATION:Green Hills Art Gallery\, 2205 Green Hills Dr.\, Ames\, IA\, 50014\, United States
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SUMMARY:Family Storytime - Ames Public Library
DESCRIPTION:Children of all ages and their grown-ups are invited to this storytime to build listening\, language\, and literacy skills through music\, movement\, song and action rhymes. Each week will feature a new theme.
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/family-storytime-ames-public-library-3/2026-05-02/
LOCATION:Ames Public Library\, 515 Douglas Ave\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Conversation Circles: Japanese - Ames Public Library
DESCRIPTION:Gather (in person or online) for casual conversations in Japanese. Chat in your native language or get comfortable speaking in another language. \nTo join via Zoom\, click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81706386269?pwd=h7HfoFApVWwea7yboGPUGsxXgRhD9w.1 \n 
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/conversation-circles-french-ames-public-library-3-2/2026-05-02/
LOCATION:Ames Public Library\, 515 Douglas Ave\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Conversation Circles: Russian - Ames Public Library
DESCRIPTION:Gather (in person or online) for casual conversations in Russian. Chat in your native language or get comfortable speaking in another language. \nTo join via Zoom\, click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81706386269?pwd=h7HfoFApVWwea7yboGPUGsxXgRhD9w.1
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/conversation-circles-russian-ames-public-library-2/2026-05-02/
LOCATION:Ames Public Library\, 515 Douglas Ave\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Conversation Circles: French - Ames Public Library
DESCRIPTION:Gather (in person or online) for casual conversations in French. Chat in your native language or get comfortable speaking in another language. \nTo join via Zoom\, click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81706386269?pwd=h7HfoFApVWwea7yboGPUGsxXgRhD9w.1
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/conversation-circles-french-ames-public-library-2/2026-05-02/
LOCATION:Ames Public Library\, 515 Douglas Ave\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reception: Landscapes & Mindscapes: Reflections on the Worlds - Gallery in the Round
DESCRIPTION:Landscapes & Mindscapes: Reflections on the Worlds \nThe Gallery in the Round at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames will present Landscapes & Mindscapes: Reflections on the Worlds We Inhabit\, a solo exhibition by visual artist and physicist Sebastián Sánchez-Falero\, on view from April 4 through June 30. A public reception will be held on Sat.\, May 2 from 5 to 7 p.m.\, featuring an artist talk and discussion open to the public. \nBringing together two complementary bodies of work\, Landscapes & Mindscapes reflects on the natural and technological environments that shape contemporary life. One series\, Endless Horizons: Colors of the Iowa Plains\, contemplates the quiet beauty of Iowa’s land\, sky\, and seasons through photography showcasing light\, atmosphere\, and human presence. The other\, Minds on a Digital Mirror: Exploring the Human Tapestry\, uses AI-assisted visual art to explore what it means to be human in an age increasingly shaped by intelligent machines. \nTogether\, the exhibition places Iowa’s physical landscape in dialogue with the conceptual and technological worlds we now inhabit. It draws attention to the quiet beauty of the land while opening space to reflect on the less visible terrains of contemporary existence: memory\, imagination\, data\, simulation\, and the digital systems that increasingly surround us and accelerate human experience. As Sánchez-Falero puts it\, the exhibition grows from the question\, “What does it mean to be human here and now?” Holding these realities in the same room\, Landscapes & Mindscapes invites viewers to consider both the outer landscapes we dwell in and the inner or constructed mindscapes through which we make meaning. \nAt the same time\, the exhibition engages the question of art in the age of AI. With these technologies now firmly part of contemporary life\, and the genie already out of the bottle\, Sánchez-Falero approaches artificial intelligence not simply as a tool\, but as a new mimetic medium: one that emerges from human design and human data\, and that can therefore function as a technological mirror of contemporary culture and consciousness and biases. \nThrough the exhibition and artist talk\, he offers an accessible introduction to AI and large language models while reflecting on mimesis across painting\, photography\, and AI-generated imagery\, helping audiences place these new tools in a broader historical and artistic perspective. Sánchez-Falero is a visual artist and physicist based in Ames\, Iowa. Across his practice\, he explores identity through portraiture of life\, spaces\, and moments\, often working at the intersection of photography\, language and technology. His work moves between natural and conceptual space\, asking how human beings dwell in the world\, how they represent it\, and how they continually reshape both their environments and themselves. \nThe exhibition is on view at Gallery in the Round\, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames\,\n1015 Hyland Ave.\, Ames\, IA. \nViewing hours are Monday and Tues.\, 9 a.m. to noon\, and Wed. and Thurs.\, 1 to 4 p.m.\, or by appointment by calling 515-292-5960. \nMedia Contact:\nSebastián Sánchez-Falero\n515-372-5661\nsfs@sebastiansanchez.net\nwww.SebastianSanchez.net
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LOCATION:Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames – Gallery in the Round\, 1015 Hyland Ave\, Ames\, IA 50014\, Ames\, IA\, 50014\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cyclone Cinema: Avatar: Fire and Ash – ISU Student Union Board
DESCRIPTION:Jake and Neytiri’s family grapples with grief\, encountering a new\, aggressive Na’vi tribe\, the Ash People\, who are led by the fiery Varang\, as the conflict on Pandora escalates and a new moral focus emerges. \n2025 | PG-13 | 3hr 17min \n \nAll Cyclone Cinema showings start at 7:00pm. Sunday film screenings will be in open caption format. All other screenings can be open caption as long as the request is made to the staff before the movie starts. \n  \n 
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/cyclone-cinema-avatar-fire-and-ash-isu-student-union-board/2026-05-02/
LOCATION:Carver Hall\, Room 0101\, 411 Morrill Rd\, Ames\, IA 50011\, Ames\, IA\, 50011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cyclone Voice 2026! - Student Union Board
DESCRIPTION:Cyclone Voice 2026!\nCyclone Voice is ISU’s premier\, annual singing competition that highlights the vocal talents of Iowa State students. This year’s event will be hosted by acclaimed pop-rock band Saint Motel! \nJoyfully blurring genres\, Saint Motel showcase an opulent sound complimentary to their ambitious scope. Streamed and viewed over half-a-billion times\, the platinum-selling Los Angeles quartet magnify this vision with immersive live experiences and one unpredictable move after another. \nSaint Motel initially broke out with their first full-length album Voyeur in 2012. After signing to Elektra Records\, they dropped their 2014 My Type EP along with the RIAA Platinum-certified title track “My Type\,” as well as the fan favorite Gold-certified “Cold Cold Man.” They’ve toured with Imagine Dragons\, Arctic Monkeys\, Weezer\, Twenty One Pilots\, and Panic! At the Disco\, to name a few\, have lit up stages from Coachella and Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo and beyond\, and have been seen on NBC’s TODAY Show\, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!\, CBS’ The Late Late Show with James Corden\, and more. Their latest album\, Afterglow\, was released this past October.
URL:https://calendar.amesart.org/event/cyclone-voice-2026-student-union-board/
LOCATION:ISU Memorial Union – Great Hall\, 2229 Lincoln Way\, Ames\, IA\, 50011\, United States
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