City prepares for thousands to enjoy Barbecue Festival
Organizers and barbecue restaurants are finishing up the details to make the event a fun-filled day and exciting time for regulars and first-timers alike. The event is free.
"It's a huge relief when you see there's a zero chance of rain," said Stephanie K. Saintsing Naset, executive director of the Barbecue Festival. "That definitely makes the event more pleasurable with making sure everything is in place. It's wonderful to get to this week. I encourage everyone to come out and have fun. Let's really enjoy ourselves in our beautiful uptown area."
Naset is thrilled to see the weather prediction of being mostly sunny with highs around 65. Morning predictions start in the 40s and begin warming up around 10 a.m.
"We are ready. It couldn't be a more perfect day to host thousands of people to our community," she said. "I just want to thank all the sponsors and volunteers. It takes an enormous group of people to put this festival together and of course the official barbecue restaurants for serving food. I encourage everyone to come out to the festival.
Design Students Create Art With Steamrollers
While most students at Iowa State create projects with paper or laptops, a group of students from the College of Design had the opportunity to use a steamroller for one of their projects.
April Katz is a professor with the College of Design. Every fall semester, Katz organizes steamroller printing with her Relief Printmaking class. Steamroller printing is a multi-step process. First, a student lays their four foot by eight foot wood block on the ground and covers it with ink, using paint rollers. Then the student lays a sheet of fabric over it, which is what the image would be transferred to. Each student has different kinds and colors of fabric. On top of the fabric, the student puts paper, so it doesn’t bleed through to the next layer, the carpet. And finally, another sheet of wood is placed over the whole pile, and then drove over two times with a steamroller.
“It’s a lot of hard work, but it’s very rewarding,” said Brianna Baltes, senior in integrated studio arts.
I'm about 100 miles from Manhattan, having climbed some roller-coaster hills and wound a woodsy path through Hickory Run State Park, and I expect to cross the George Washington Bridge in the middle of the day Saturday. Yeah, it's about time to be back
First, a student lays their four foot by eight foot wood block on the ground and covers it with ink, using paint rollers. Then the student lays a sheet of fabric over it, which is what the image would be transferred to. Each student has different kinds
