Happy Pokemon Day to those who celebrate 😉

Of the 29 pieces in Relative, 8 will be on public display for the first time.
Come check them out starting tomorrow night at Hudson River Gallery in Coralville, Iowa. 💙

#debut #coralvilleiowa #femaleartist #irl #artshow

A screenshot of the Hudson River Gallery website talking about the current show: Relative by Angie Huffman.

A screen shot of the Hudson River Gallery website showing four pieces in the Relative show by Angie Huffman.

The works of Hindsight are now available for viewing on the Hudson River Gallery website. For anyone interested in a preview or for those too far to travel, please check out the link: hudsonrivergallery.com/shows 🫶🤘
Many thanks. Please take care and stay safe.

Good luck getting up and running 🏃

Don’t make my mistakes 😭

Like candy boosting one dude when you meant to boost another similar dude

Are there any other idiots out there accidentally leveling up the wrong Pokemon in Pokemon Sleep or is it just me?
#pokemonsleep

This is a promo for an art show by the artist Angie Huffman called Relative. It will be held at Hudson River Gallery in Coralville, Iowa, from January 30th through March 7th in 2026. A reception will be held from 6 to 8 pm on the 30th. Behind this information is a tinted cropping of a photorealist oil painting with a baby smiling towards the viewer on the ground towards the bottom left, an older girl side-eying the viewer at the right, and another figure cut off at the top left. Different colored cube shapes randomly surround them.

Two weeks from today Relative will open at Hudson River Gallery. It is my first local solo show in years and my last solo show on the books at any location at this time.
If Eastern Iowa is not too far from you, please come have a look.

#artshow #artexhibition #soloshow #femaleartist #coralville

I knew they were wrong, but I had not heard about #Ophiuchus yet.

Your Zodiac Sign Is 2,000 Years Out of Date Over millennia, our view of the stars has shifted, because of Earth’s wobble. It may be time to rethink your sign.

Your Zodiac Sign Is 2,000 Years Out of Date
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What kinds of objects are in your regular waste stream? Are there any you’ve been able to shift away from?

I carry reusable utensils now but employees hand out single use ones with orders as a requirement of their job.
I have shifted away from protein powder and no longer use disposable mouth guards.
The floss containers keep on coming though as the lower waste alternatives are still catching up.

This last autobiographical waste study of the year is a collection of limited use plastics related to the mouth and its health or the health of the body it feeds.

A plexiglass box sits in a wood ledge in the center of the image. The box contains various plastic items in blues, a cool green, a pale more neutral green, and clear. Behind the box is an off white wall with white trim. The wood ledge has a white trim beneath it.

A plexiglass box sits in a wood ledge in the center of the image. The box contains various plastic items in blues, a cool green, a pale more neutral green, and clear. Behind the box is an off white wall with white trim. The wood ledge has a white trim beneath it. The photo has been taken at an angle.

Mouthy
Waste plastics and plexiglass, about 10.3 x 10.25 x 3.9”, 2025

#wasteplastic #plexiglass #itsjustabox #iowaartist #femaleartist #wallart #unrecyclable #mouthy #waste #wastestream #plasticwaste

This piece raises a (plexi)glass to created-to-be-single-use resealable bags, more commonly known for helping transport school lunches and keeping leftovers sealed up tight. It is a clean and idealized version of them all piled up as opposed to how they end up piled up in landfills. Shiny ftw.

Many years later, the items are no longer bagged after having survived transport, and I am I have large plastic bags of the smaller resealable ones. I try to come up with ways to reuse them, knowing at the end of the day that they will outlive me, as will the plastic items I was so concerned about.

I own a lot of stuff. A lot of stuff made out of plastic, actually.
Years ago, I did not know how to preserve much of this stuff when I moved. I did not have a lot of money or time. I turned to the classic single-use preservation tool of the resealable plastic bag at an embarrassing scale.

A clear box hangs on a white wall with house siding on it. Resealable clear plastic bags are inside the box. Exposed metal screws are holding a white backing to the side of the box facing away from the viewer and against the wall. The viewer is to the bottom left of the box which faces up and to the right.

A clear box hangs on a white wall with house siding on it. Resealable clear plastic bags are inside the box. Exposed metal screws are holding a white backing to the side of the box facing away from the viewer and against the wall.

Preservation
Waste plastics and plexiglass, about 8.3 x 8.3 x 2.875”, 2025

#wasteplastic #plexiglass #itsjustabox #femaleartist #iowaartist #wallart #plastic #reducereuserecycle #unrecyclable #resealable

Linn County Landfill Will Be Full 8 Years Earlier than Expected The derecho in 2020 and population growth are two reasons why the Linn County landfill is filling up fast.

Two things I do know:
The Linn County Landfill is forecast to be at capacity and close eight years earlier than expected
And many plastics are not recycled because it is cheaper to make more instead, and $ is the concern above all.
No cap.

Linn County Landfill article: khak.com/linn-county-...

Even if one tries to decrease their waste output, is it truly possible to completely do so without systemic change at the level of those producing goods? And even where there has been change at that level, is it enough to make a difference?

This series additionally focuses on a similar ongoing point of interest: the question of when to resist situations greater than ourselves that we may disagree with and when to accept the futility of doing so within the structure of the place and time that we currently live.

The constant interplay in life of the things we can and cannot control continues to interest me.

As was the case in previous pieces and in the next ones in the works, ALL CAPS consists of elements that I controlled (the color palette of lids chosen, the size of the constructed plexi box) and an element of randomness: how the objects are arranged within the box.

This piece follows EnCapsulated from the end of last year. It is composed of lids of containers of products that my household purchases regularly. As is very often the case, the containers themselves were made of broadly recyclable plastic numbers (♽1 or ♽2), and the caps were not.

Unrecyclable plastic lids are contained within a clear plexiglass box hanging on an off white wall. The box is facing at an angle away from the viewer. The caps are black, yellow, dark blue, red, and purple. The back surface of the box is composed of a black canvas that is connected to the plexiglass by exposed screws.

Unrecyclable plastic lids are contained within a clear plexiglass box hanging on an off white wall. The box is directly facing the viewer. The caps are black, yellow, dark blue, red, and purple.

Two plexiglass boxes facing the viewer sit side by side on concrete below a white wall. The smaller left rectangular box contains dots of plastic in predominantly a golden color with some that are navy, shades of red and pink, white, and a yellow-orange. The larger right square box contains various unrecyclable plastic lids in dark blue, black, yellow, red, and purple, facing in all directions.

ALL CAPS
Waste plastics and plexiglass, 8.25 x 8.25 x 3.625”, 2025

#wasteplastic #plexiglass #nocap #itsjustabox #femaleartist #iowaartist #wallart

I remember when I was 13 or so my head hurt and one of my parents told me it was probably because I’d been reading too much
So I can relate to this. 💙

Why Mr. Beast 😭

Before parental 'screen time' concerns: radio, even novels NEW YORK (AP) — When Stephen Dennis was raising his two sons in the 1980s, he never heard the phrase "screen time," nor did he worry much about the hours his kids spent with technology.

I am not asserting that the current status of things is healthy or ok. I do really wish history was actually taught in schools though. 🙂
On that note, here is a lovely AP article: apnews.com/article/10a3...

I found this source image a lovely reminder of how screen scares are not new and that kids have been looking at some form of them or another for decades. Heck, even when the radio was rolled out there was panic over people’s attention being given to it.

One thing that’s gotten a lot of attention for years is how much time people of all ages look at screens. Children are the demographic that have the most concern raised though.