OK, so your geometry teacher didn’t lie — you would use the stuff again. But don’t fret, there won’t be a test.

An area artist will be showing her geometrical work and presenting a speech this weekend at the Brunnier Art Museum as part of the University Museums Sunday Programs.

Susan Noland, of Des Moines, will give a speech titled “Form and Vision: The Magic of the Golden Spiral.” Noland has designed a piece that is currently on display at the museum as part of the Commemorative Cup exhibition.

The exhibition is coordinated by Rosanne Raab, a craft historian from New York City, and it will tour the United States for 18 months.

The 50 artists featured in the exhibition were each asked to design a cup that commemorated something important in their lives, Noland said.

She described the cup as a logarithmic spiral in a cone shape. “It’s not necessarily a functional piece,” Noland said.

Noland’s cup shows why shapes and proportions are important, she said. While the proportions are ones that could be found in nature, Noland says her piece shows how mathematics also can prove those proportions.

She will speak on how these aspects have been incorporated into her other pieces, which she will also display.

Noland, who has an open studio and retail space located on 42nd Street in the Roosevelt Shopping Center in Des Moines, said she gives presentations to her visitors every day. She gives larger presentations like this at least once a year.

There are two other artists with Iowa ties featured in the exhibition, Noland said. One is from Iowa City, while the other is a former student of hers who now teaches at the University of Illinois.

“It’s a nice treat to have a metalsmith’s show of this quality in the Midwest,” she said.

Noland’s presentation will be Sunday, April 6, at 2 p.m. in the Brunnier Art Gallery, which is located in the Scheman Building at the Iowa State Center. Parking, located north of the Scheman Building, and admission are free.