Multidisciplinary artist Rodger Gerberding of Council Bluffs, Iowa, will be the Artist-in-Residence from August 2 to August 28^th at the Red Barn Studio Museum. While at the Red Barn, he will continue his concentration on Lindsborg as image-matter, with reference to its people and places. During this year’s residency, Rodger is also scheduled to have a small showing of his work at the White Peacock in Lindsborg. Exhibiting throughout the Midwest and on both coasts, Rodger has garnered a wide variety of awards.  His magazine illustrations number in the high hundreds, with his work featured in both domestic and international periodicals.  He has illustrated/decorated some eighty books, in a variety of genres; his latest work, for three novels by James Herbert, is due from Centipede Press in 2021/2022.  He has recently completed a series of paintings relating to Sauk City, WI environs and the work of August Derleth, for a new edition of the latter’s Rivers of America book, “THE WISCONSIN.” The image of his work shown here, is titled, “Window.”  Rodger will again be joined (for the first week of August) by his grandson, Kellen Rief, an artist working in a variety of mediums to create art that showcases beauty in the grotesque and comedic. Demons, mutants, machines, skeletons and especially clowns are central figures in most of his work.  The exact meaning of his work is up to the viewer to decide.  A sampling of Kellen’s work may be seen online at https://www.noyesartgallery.com/kellen-rief.html, and Rodger’s at https://www.noyesartgallery.com/rodger-gerberding.html, with their work exhibited in the Noyes Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska.