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.
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

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

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.
20 May 2003

Pastel Competition Grows into Professional-Development Expo

By Jeff Ignatius
What had been MidCoast's Pastel Exhibition & Competition has been transformed through addition into something altogether different: a multifaceted arts-in-education event for teens that creates a link to workforce development and retention.
20 May 2003

Sculpture on Second Returns for Second Year

By Jeff Ignatius
Photos by Brian Barkley Seven new sculptures have popped up in downtown Davenport, the result of the second Sculpture on Second project of DavenportOne. The organization is also developing a brochure for a walking tour.
04 Mar 2003

The Art of Getting Money

By Jeff Ignatius
Nancy Senn-Kerbs, program director of the Family Museum of Arts & Sciences in Bettendorf and past president of the group Iowans for the Arts, might sound wishy-washy on the status of state support for the arts. "It is discouraging in some ways but encouraging in others," she said.
04 Mar 2003

Artists Say Figge Needs More Local Art

By Jeff Ignatius
Davenport Museum of Art Director Linda Downs envisions the Figge Arts Center as a vibrant gathering place for the general public and artistic types. The Museum of Modern Art in New York City used to be "a meeting place for young people," she said, and the "incubation place" for artists, critics, and art-lovers alike.
05 Mar 2002

MidCoast Readies New Rock Island Gallery

By Jeff Ignatius
MidCoast Fine Arts will be celebrating the opening of its new gallery this Friday, and it's meant to be part of the continued growth of Rock Island's downtown. The MidCoast Gallery West, at the corner of 2nd Avenue and 16 ½ Street, will be opening its doors on March 8, sharing its space with ArtFX, a commercial gallery run by artist Donna Lee.
29 May 2001

Left Bank Show, Irish Painting Demonstration at Myers Gallery Highlight Weekend

By Jeff Ignatius
Dawn Brick doesn't consider herself an artist. She prefers to call herself a "technician." But you only need to glance at the intricacy of the beaded pouches she makes to know that she's more than she claims to be.

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