02 Aug 2017

Muscatine Art Center to host Go Figure! traveling exhibit

By Lynn Bartenhagen

Storybooks present enjoyable, meaningful, interactive math explorations to children and adults in Go Figure!--a national traveling exhibit that opens at the Muscatine Art Center on Saturday, August 5, 2017. Go Figure! transforms charming children’s books into a kid-sized world where children and adults can have fun exploring math with familiar characters such as Arthur, Frog and Toad, and Goldilocks and Three Bears.

01 Aug 2017

Bettendorf's Family Museum Closed for Maintenance

By Elly Gerdts

Family Museum Closed Monday, August 28 – Friday, September 1, for Building Maintenance

Bettendorf — The Family Museum will be closed August 28 - September 1, for building and exhibit maintenance. Once the Museum reopens, summer hours will end and regular hours will resume.

Regular Hours

Monday – Thursday: 9:00 am – 8pm

Friday – Saturday: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Sunday: Noon – 5:00 pm

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28 Jul 2017

Amana Arts Festival Celebrates 40 Years

By David Rettig

Main Amana, IA: Amana Arts Guild’s Festival of the Arts to celebrate 40 years on August 12th, 2017.   Festivities are scheduled to begin at 10:00AM and end at 5:00PM in the Main Amana Market Barn, 707 46TH Ave.  Amana.

27 Jul 2017

James Henry of Burlington to Exhibit at Muscatine Art Center

By Lynn Bartenhagen

Burlington, Iowa artist, James Walker Henry, will open an exhibition in the Musser House gallery at the Muscatine Art Center on August 13, 2017. For the last thirty-five years, Henry has created over five hundred surreal works of art that address social and political issues. He explores current events and ideas through paint and brush. He was first introduced to surrealist artists and the style of surrealism while taking art history courses.

25 Jul 2017

Muscatine Art Center Announces Exhibition of Works by Carol Steinmetz

By Lynn Bartenhagen

On August 5, 2017, the Muscatine Art Center will open the exhibition, “Carol Steinmetz: An Artist’s Spectrum”. Local artist, Carol Steinmetz, has developed her artistic style over the last four decades. The exhibition spans her career from her works in oil to her well known florals, barns, and local landmarks and through her recent exploration with abstract and mixed media. A reception for the artist will be held on Sunday, August 13th from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

21 Jul 2017

Coast Guard presents George Gray Award for Artistic Excellence, accepts 33 works of art into Coast Guard Art Program during New York City event

By U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters

WASHINGTON — Coast Guard Art Program artist Ken Smith received the George Gray Award for Artistic Excellence at a ceremony Thursday at the Salmagundi Club in New York City.

Smith, from Pulaski, Virginia, was selected as the recipient of the George Gray Award for his work, "Lifeline," a 30-inch by 22.5-inch oil on canvas painting depicting two female Coast Guard members on a response boat as they coil lines used to retrieve victims from the water.  

21 Jul 2017

New Bix Museum Ribbon Cutting Todaiy at 2:30 pm

By Jessica Waytenick

DATE:  Friday, July 21st – 2:30 PM  çççç

LOCATION: Bix Beiderbecke Museum and Archive

                    Lower Level of the River Music Experience, 2nd and Main St., Davenport, IA

14 Jul 2017

Flash Exhibit--Photography of Kathleen Timp

By Studio Works

PERSPECTIVES - Photography of Kathleen Huinker Timp

12 Jul 2017

Nazi Hunger Politics Saturday, July 22 @ 2pm

By German American Heritage Center
Millions of Soviet soldiers in German captivity died of hunger during World War II. Their deaths were not the unexpected consequence of a war that took longer than anticipated. It was the calculated strategy of a small group of economic planners around Herbert Backe, the second Nazi Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture.
12 Jul 2017

Herbert Hoover in WWI: The Great Humanitarian Sunday, July 23 @ 2pm

By German American Heritage Center
Herbert Hoover in World War I: The Great Humanitarian
Performance by Brian Fox Ellis

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