Cover Art by Halle Siepman

Born and raised in Los Angeles, artist Halle Siepman moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to pursue her passion for art at Sonoma State University, where she earned her BFA (2012) in Studio Art and a BA in Spanish. Between degrees, Siepman traveled across the world in search of artistic inspiration, eventually landing in the broad plains of Iowa where her parents were born. At The University of Iowa, she completed her MA (2014) and MFA in Painting with a minor in Printmaking in 2015. She is the recipient of Iowa Arts Council Art Project Grant FY16 as well as the Stanley International Research Award 2014 for research in the modern restoration efforts of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. Returning to Greece sparked a new interest of the modernization of classical architecture through today’s restorative techniques. She also admires the buildings of Postmodern architects, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid and Jacques Herzog for their, too, seemingly impossible architectural designs. She draws on these influences to create her own personal architectural spaces through art. https://www.hallesiepman.com/