
Davenport, Iowa (Friday, March 10) – The Figge Art Museum is seeking submissions for the upcoming Beyond the Classroom exhibition. The exhibition will feature artwork created by local teachers holding at least a part-time teaching position in a K-12 classroom in districts located within a 45-mile radius of the museum.
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Davenport, Iowa (Tuesday, February 28) – Grab your gals and get ready to have a blast with B100 during Girls Night Out at the Figge on Saturday, March 4 from 5-8 p.m.! This event will bring the Figge to life after hours in celebration of Women’s History Month and the many female artists and female-focused exhibitions currently on view.
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Davenport, Iowa (Tuesday, February 21, 2023) – Veiled: The Art of Heidi Draley McFall will be on view in the Figge Art Museum’s second-floor Katz Gallery beginning Saturday, February 25. Arrestingly evocative, her large-scale portraits invite audiences to explore the expressions of her subjects. This is McFall’s first solo museum exhibition and features her largely unseen recent series of pastel drawings coated in resin. Based near DeWitt, Iowa, McFall is a self-taught artist whose work has been part of group exhibitions at museums across the country and in Italy.
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Davenport, Iowa (Friday, February 10) – Step into history and experience over 150 years of women’s sporting fashion pioneered by fearless women at the Figge Art Museum this spring. Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960, a traveling exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts and the FIDM Museum at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, Los Angeles, opens to Figge members on Saturday, February 11, and to the public on Tuesday, February 14.
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Davenport, Iowa (January 26, 2023) – Artwork created by local elementary art students from eight area school districts will be on view in the Figge Art Museum’s second-floor Mary Waterman Gildehaus Community Gallery beginning Saturday for the annual Young Artists at the Figge exhibition.
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Davenport, Iowa (January 23, 2023) – Local artist, Black Hawk College Professor Emerita and Michigan native Zaiga Minka Thorson’s work will be featured in the Figge’s first-floor Gildehaus Gallery at the Figge Art Museum beginning Saturday. Her work demonstrates the power of art to heal not only the viewer but the maker as well.
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Davenport, Iowa (December 15, 2022) – The Figge Art Museum was awarded $1.6 million through Iowa Economic Development Authority’s Destination Iowa Creative Placemaking Fund to support the installation of a new public light sculpture, Evanescent Field, by internationally acclaimed light artist Leo Villareal. Villareal is known for his site-specific light installations, including San Francisco’s Bay Bridge, The Bay Lights; Illuminated River, a public work of art that unites 9 London bridges through one artwork; Multiverse, a tunnel installation at the National Gallery of Art; and more. Villareal uses binary code and simple structures to create complex light sequences through custom software that incorporates a site’s environment, creating a “digital campfire” around which people can gather to experience art.
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Davenport, Iowa (November 28, 2022) – The work of artist Maria Cusumano (1958-2019), who taught at the Davenport Museum of Art (now the Figge) and St. Ambrose University in the 1990s, will be featured in
an exhibition on view beginning Saturday at the Figge Art Museum.
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Davenport, Iowa (Sunday, November 27, 2022) – The Figge Art Museum Store will be participating in Museum Store Sunday on Sunday, November 27 from noon-5 p.m. The Figge is just one of the over 1800 stores across the globe to participate in this annual shopping event that gives back.
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Davenport, Iowa (September 6, 2022) –Living Proof Exhibit, a non-profit organization that provides the therapeutic benefits of the arts to people impacted by cancer, will have an exhibition of artwork by cancer survivors on view at the Figge Art Museum starting Saturday, September 10.
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Davenport, Iowa (July 6, 2022) — The Figge Art Museum has joined forces with the Warner Foundation, which is dedicated to promoting an understanding of American History through American Art, to present History in the Painting.
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Davenport, Iowa (June 29, 2022) —The Figge Art Museum announces today participation in the Art Bridges Collection Loan Partnership, an innovative museum art lending model, to display outstanding works of American art from the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, in Davenport, Iowa.
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Davenport, Iowa (June 21, 2022) — Drawn from the Figge’s collection, Urban Exposure, showcases a compelling array of twentieth and twenty-first century artwork exploring the human condition within the urban American scene. Through these diverse views of city life, this exhibition asks us to recognize the experiences we share and what it means to live and work in America.
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Davenport, Iowa (June 8, 2022) — Artist Anne Lindberg embraces the freedom of drawing in a broad spectrum of formats in addition to works on paper. think like the river is an immersive experiential convergence of visual art and language that begins Saturday.
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Davenport, Iowa (Thursday, May 26, 2022) —Art students from eight area colleges and universities will have their artwork on view in the Figge’s second-floor Mary Waterman Gildehaus Community Gallery beginning Saturday, May 28 for the 12th installment of the College Invitational.
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