Davenport, Iowa (April 27, 2015) - The Figge Art Museum will be turning 10 this summer. To celebrate the museum's connection to the community, an exhibition of artwork created by area students will be displayed in the Mary Waterman Gildehaus Community Gallery called I Heart Figge.

Students in kindergarten through grade 12 are invited to create an artwork that displays their love of the Figge and what the museum means to them. The winning works will be featured in the I Heart Figge exhibition on view June 6-Septmeber 13, 2015. Submissions not selected to be hung in the exhibition will still be shown digitally in a slide show accompanying the exhibition.

Eligible participants include K-12 students who may submit ONE entry in each of the following three categories: one artwork per individual student (K-12), one artwork per family (with at least one child K-12) and one artwork per classroom (K-12).

To enter students are to create an artwork inspired by the Figge. The art should be 2-dimensional only and should be created on paper that is 12x18 inches (vertical or horizontal). Once the artwork is made a few typed sentences should be submitted about what the student loves about the Figge or a favorite memory about the Figge (no more than 10 sentences). Complete the entry form available at: www.figgeartmuseum.org. Drop off the artwork, typed sentences and entry form to the Figge's Museum Store by 5 p.m. Friday, May 15, 2015. The Museum Store will accept entries Tuesdays-Sundays 12-5 p.m. and Thursday nights until 9 p.m.

For more information or to download an entry form, please visit www.figgeartmuseum.org.

About the Figge Art Museum

The Figge Art Museum is located on the riverfront in downtown Davenport at 225 West Second Street. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday and Sundays noon to 5 p.m. Thursdays the museum is open until 9 p.m. Admission to the museum and tour is $7. Admission is free to Figge members and institutional members, and free to all on Thursday evenings from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. To contact the museum, please call 563.326.7804, or visit www.figgeartmuseum.org.

The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art announces a

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Midwest Summer: Light and Warmth

June 6 - September 13, 2015

In celebration of Iowa artists, the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art announces a call for entries of artworks that address the experience of summer in the Midwest. These artworks can focus on aspects of summer that appeals to the senses in any manner from representational to abstract. All media accepted. Applicants must reside in the state of Iowa. All work must be ready to hang and must have been created in the past three years. Deadline for receipt of up to three images, resume, and explanation of how selected artworks represent the theme is March 1, 2015.

Juror:  Kate Kunau, Associate Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

Kate Kunau is the new Associate Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Prior to joining the staff at CRMA, she was at the University of Iowa working on her Ph.D., and from 2011 to 2012, worked for the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, as the Semmes Foundation Intern.

Davenport, Iowa (February 10, 2014) -  Living Proof Exhibit, which celebrates the creative spirit of cancer survivors, is seeking entries for its annual exhibit to be held from August 16 to October 26, 2014 in the Mary Waterman Gildehaus Community Gallery at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport.

All cancer survivors or patients within a 150-mile radius of the Quad-Cities are eligible to submit up to five works for consideration. Entries must be received by April 22, 2014. Complete submission details are available at www.livingproofexhibit.org.

During the course of the exhibit, the Figge and Living Proof Exhibit will partner to offer programming that provides creative outlets for cancer patients and survivors. These programs will include art classes, while the theme of the September PechaKucha at the Figge is Celebrating Survivors.

"For the past four years, Living Proof Exhibit has been celebrating the creative spirit of the cancer survivor through our exhibits and art therapy classes," said executive director Pamela Crouch. "We are thrilled to be able to showcase survivors' artwork at the Figge."

According to Tim Schiffer, executive director at the Figge, "the museum is always looking for distinctive ways to bring art and people together and this exhibition shows the impact that art can have in peoples' daily lives."

"Holding the exhibit in the community gallery at the Figge will offer residents of the Quad-Cities a greater opportunity to view these beautiful, expressive works of art," added Living Proof Exhibit co-founder Mary Ellen Cunningham.

This exhibit is made possible by a grant from UnityPoint Health - Trinity. For information about art therapy classes or programming opportunities, please visit www.livingproofexhibit.org or call 309.781.6227.

About the Figge Art Museum

The Figge Art Museum is located on the riverfront in downtown Davenport at 225 West Second Street. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday and Sundays 12-5 p.m. Thursdays the museum is open until 9 p.m. Admission to the museum and tour is $7. Admission is free to Figge

members and institutional members and free to all on Thursday evenings from 5 p.m. - 9 p.m. To contact the museum, please call 563.326.7804, or visit www.figgeartmuseum.org.

About Living Proof Exhibit

Living Proof Exhibit is a non-profit organization that hosts an annual exhibition of art by cancer survivors and patients and also provides free art therapy classes. The exhibit celebrates the spirit and creativity of these men and women as well as the therapeutic benefits of art. Co-founders Pamela Crouch and Mary Ellen Cunningham are both breast cancer survivors. They each found great power in photography during their treatment and wanted to share their experience with other cancer patients looking for strength, so Living Proof Exhibit was born. Visit www.livingproof.org for more information.

-end-

The "Call for Entries" is out for the Thirty-sixth Annual Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibition, with a discount for entries received by January 13, 2012 ($25 for two entries). Final entry deadline is January 19, 2012 ($30). The annual juried competition, co-sponsored by the Rock Island Art Guild and Augustana College, is open to visual artists working in any media except video, and residing within a 150-mile radius of the Quad Cities. Entry forms, specifications and size limits are on the Call for Entries prospectus, which is available at http://www.augustana.edu, following prompts for Arts/Art Museum. 

More than $3,700 in awards will be given, including a $1,000 First Prize, $500 Two-dimensional Award in Memory of Bernice and Stanley Harris, $500 Freestanding Entry Award in Memory of Zeivel Harris; $500 "Sally MacMillan Watercolor Award;" $500 Second Place; $300 Third Place; and several $100 Honorable Mentions. During the exhibition visitors can vote on the People's Choice and Children's Choice awards of $50 each. The exhibition will be displayed at the Augustana College Art Museum from March 6 through April 22, 2012. The opening reception will take place on Friday, March 30, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m., with awards announced at 5:40 p.m. The exhibition catalog will be made available at the reception.

The 2012 juror is Joseph Mella, who has served as director of the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee, and its collections since 1992. Prior to Vanderbilt, he served as curator of exhibitions and collections at the Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois, and in a similar capacity at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont. He holds an M.A. in modern art history, theory, and criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Mella received a B.F.A. in printmaking from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. At Vanderbilt, he has curated and organized more than 80 exhibitions and collaborated on a public art series that has brought such highly recognized artists to Vanderbilt as Frank Stella, Tom Otterness, Stephen Antonakos, Beverly Pepper, and Richard Haas. He has been instrumental in developing a collection of contemporary graphics and artists' books with strengths found in works by living women artists.