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.
18 Nov 2003

Not Quite "Rearranging Reality"

By Administrator
Last year, mixed-media artist Terry Rathje won second-place honors at the Rock Island Fine Arts competition with his sculpture Cubus. He now has 11 sculptures in an exhibit (running through November) at the MidCoast Fine Arts Gallery at the Iowa Welcome Center near LeClaire, but I'm not as excited about the works chosen for this show as I was by Cubus.
21 Oct 2003

Photo Contest Winners

By No Author
We received nearly 80 entries in response to the first-ever River Cities' Reader photo contest, and we couldn't be more pleased with the results. We divided the contest into three categories - people, Quad Cities places, and digitally altered - and the diversity of the entries shows the wide range of possibilities for the photographic arts.
30 Sep 2003

Photographers Mine Different Territory

By Michael LoGuidice
It has to be old, broken, rotting, or decayed for something to make it as Jon Stuckenschneider subject matter. I don't think the travel and tourism bureaus will want to hire him to do their photos, because his black-and-white gelatin prints evoke bleakness.
02 Sep 2003

Last Chance to Enter the River Cities' Reader Spring Photo Contest

By Administrator
The River Cities' Reader is conducting its spring photo contest, so get out your cameras and start shooting. Winners will be published in the April 12, 2006, issue of the River Cities' Reader. We are accepting entries in three categories: (1) comfort, (2) mystique, and (3) waste.
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.
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

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

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.
12 Aug 2003

Sisters Produce Stunning Show

By Michael LoGuidice
Before September 11, 2001, the concept of the airport as town-hall meeting plaza was a great one. The Quad City International Airport was well on its way to realizing that ideal. There were plans for an office park to be located on or near the airport property, and people, not just travelers, would be lured to the facilities.

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