Davenport, Iowa (January 6, 2016) –. The Figge Art Museum will be hosting the first free family day of 2016 on Saturday, sponsored by the Quad-City Times.
Kick off the New Year with free admission all day and a variety of free planned activities from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Make chalk drawings, create-your-own multi-media collage and frame, have a photo taken with props, visit with the Native American Coalition of the Quad Cities at 10:30 a.m. and view objects from the Big Picture Outreach Collection.
In addition, a presentation called American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace by Tom Milligan will take place from noon-1 p.m. in the fourth floor gallery. The museum received funding from Humanities Iowa, a private, non-profit state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, to host the one-act play based on the award-winning book by Senator John C. Culver and John Hyde.
Visitors will also have the chance to explore the galleries and experience the current traveling exhibitions including: Ellen Wagener: Horizon Lines, Wit & Whimsy: The Photographs of Kenneth Josephson, Edward S. Curtis: One Hundred Masterworks and Wendy Red Star: Peelatchiwaaxpaash/Medicine Crow (Raven) and the 1880 Crow Peace Delegation.
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 always 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.
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