Photographs by Christy Utter

Taken Fall of 2004

IOKA Interior Still Shots Courtesy of Christy Utter, Vintage Portraits, Exeter NH

http://www.vintageportraitart.com/

Kirk Membry of Moss Creek Media showed up early the night of December 23rd 2008 to capture Ioka’s beauty before it was too late. That night the Ioka was opened to the public for a free screening of Miracle on 34th Street…an event put together by Ryan Howell (an Ioka projectionist).

Ioka Panos

As this site continues to grow we hope to create a place where artists can exhibit their work around the idea of the Ioka Movie Theater. Emphasizing Ioka’s beauty and uniqueness is very important to our goal in keeping the place alive. As the Ioka has exhibited art for 93 years, we hope that with the help of this site we will be able to exhibit art to an online community to help us gain patronage back to this historic theater. This idea is about creating community around the theater via the internet. As soon as we get up the interactive/flickr/blog-like page, we hope to be able to feature local artists interpretations or variations on the theme of the IOKA. This could be anything from paintings to photographs, sculptures to architectural drawings. If you would like your work to be shown please feel free to email us at kyle@iokafilm.com

I hope that with our website and our BFA thesis film, others will share their feelings about this building in town through many other mediums of art. This will help create interest for future patrons and investors of The Ioka Theater in downtown Exeter, NH.