Hval will return to the university to teach painting and drawing for the spring 2023 semester. “It makes me feel more connected to downtown and like my work is making a difference in the community.” “It feels great being able to walk downtown and see my work in public, and even better when I see other people snapping photos in front of it,” Hval wrote. Hval said it has been nice to hear positive feedback from the Iowa City community about her work downtown. Finally, I plugged them in and secured the cords to the ground with stakes.” “I started by wrapping one color of rope light around the tree, positioning the curly cue, and zip tying them into place. “I used around 400 feet of rope light per tree and tons of zip ties,” Hval wrote in an email to the DI. RELATED: Eastern Iowa Airport expects busiest holiday season since 2019īetsy Potter, Iowa City Downtown District director of creative services, said she reached out to Hval about doing a light installation on trees with rope lights, and her idea was to create doodles on the trees. In Iowa, Hval has painted murals in Mason City, Webster City, Coralville, Clinton, Corydon, in the Med Quarter District of Cedar Rapids called “Choose Kindness,” and a mural in the Czech Village called “Mucha Meets Iowa.” She’s also painted 40 murals across the U.S. Hval, whose work uses ceramic, fabric, installation, and painting, also added lights to other parts of Iowa City, including a light installation and mural outside Studio 13 and a mural on Elrays Live & Dive. across from the Fieldhouse Bar and DC’s Sports Bar. The brightly lit trees can be viewed in front of Aspen Leaf Frozen Yogurt at 125 S. The art piece on the trees was installed in November for the holiday season and will remain up during the winter months. “It was kind of inspired by gesture drawings, like free-flowing drawings, to wrap around the trunk.” “I kind of came up with this idea of doodle trees, or scribble trees - whatever you want to call it - just where all of these lines kind of move up and down the trunk,” Hval told The Daily Iowan.

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