The Rock Island Art Guild's 40th Fine Arts Exhibition Call for Entries is now open. Artists within a 150 mile radius of Rock Island, Illinois are encouraged to enter up to two original works of art that must have been created in the last five years. Application fee is $35 and the deadline for entry is November 30, 2017. To enter visit www.rockislandartguild.org and click on "Call for Entries" link. 
 
The 40th Fine Arts Exhibition is scheduled for January 27 - May 20, 2018, at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa. Several prize awards are offered. 
 
The juror for the exhibition is Dr. Patricia McDonnell, Director of the Wichita Art Museum. McDonnell has a doctorate in art history from Brown University and has enjoyed a 30-year career working in art museums. She remains an active scholar and is a published author of books on American Modernist Painter Marsden Hartley.
 
For more information and specifications visit www.rockislandartguild.org or email Rock Island Art Guild Fine Arts Exhibition chair Holly Sparkman, hksparkman@gmail.com
 
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