15 Mar 2005

Garden Show Welcomes Spring

By Johanna Welzenbach-Hilliard
The Quad City Arts Center's Garden Show is a bright and cheerful exhibit that invites spring to come and stay a while. All participating artists were juried by Quad City Arts after a call for entry. The seven artists selected for the Garden Show were invited to take part because of the common theme in their art - flowers and nature.
15 Mar 2005

From Everywhere and Nowhere

By Jeff Ignatius
Hella is a band from Sacramento, California. But Zach Hill wants you to know that Hella is also a person. Sort of. Hella is "a musical thing that became a person unto itself," Hill said. "There's such an evolution.
24 Aug 2004

Embracing Diversity in the Visual Arts

By Jeff Ignatius
The skeleton is now covered in glass that sometimes looks green and sometimes looks blue, depending on the light. That skin matches the accents on Davenport's new parking garages, and the building itself - while monumental - currently appears closer to that aesthetic than art - boxy and blank.
25 May 2004

Father Edward M. Catich: World-Renowned Artist Gets His Due in His Own Backyard

By Jodie Shagrin Kavensky
Recently, at dinner with some Quad Cities politicians and lobbyists, I was asked to name the "best" local artists. Feeling put on the spot, I waxed regal about the subjectivity of art and how critical acclaim and commercial success are but two measures of artistic achievement.
09 Mar 2004

Mystery Box

By Jeff Ignatius
For his current art exhibition, Felix Morelo started small, creating intricate painted boxes that can fit in one's hands. One wall of the Peanut Gallery is covered with them. But as intriguing as these works are, Morelo was unhappy with them.
25 Nov 2003

River Music Experience Comes Into Focus

By Jeff Ignatius
Connie Gibbons' office at DavenportOne is small to begin with, but it's positively cramped now, with boards and papers showing layouts, logos, and artist renderings of the River Music Experience, set to open June 11 next year across the street, in the Redstone building on Second Street between Main and Brady in downtown Davenport.
26 Aug 2003

Illinois Arts Council Invests in a River Renaissance from Galena to Cairo

By Nate Lawrence
The Illinois Arts Council, along with teachers and artists from around the state, celebrated the completion of the second year of the Illinois Mississippi River Valley Project with a festival weekend August 15 through 17 in Galena, Illinois.
26 Aug 2003

Downs Sets New Tone for the Figge Arts Center

By Jeff Ignatius
The steel that's rising from the ground along River Driver between Harrison and Main streets in Davenport is the physical skeleton of the $34.4-million Figge Arts Center, but it also stands as a symbol of a new framework for doing business for the Davenport Museum of Art (DMA).
26 Aug 2003

Artists Advisory Council Gets to Work

By Jeff Ignatius
Artist Les Bell has a document from September 1999 that lists artists' complaints about the Davenport Museum of Art (DMA). They include the museum not publishing its mission statement, not welcoming local artists, and not making studio visits.
26 Aug 2003

Production Brings Joy to Ghostlight Patron

By Jeff Ignatius
Ghostlight Theatre can thank World War II, at least in part, for the patronage of Dr. Walter E. Neiswanger. The theatre company's upcoming production of Das Barbecü will happen largely because of Neiswanger.

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