Animator who worked with Fab Four on the way to Q-C
When Ron Campbell was asked to animate a cartoon version of The Beatles 50 years ago, his thoughts turned to entomology instead of pop music.
View ArticleDrummer shows off artistic side
Before he started shaking up the music world as drummer for the Legendary Shack Shakers, Brett Whitacre was an artist.
View ArticleFigge Art Museum celebrates its first decade Thursday
The Figge Art Museum will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its opening and the 90th year of its predecessor, the Davenport Art Museum, with free activities today.
View ArticleNew Yorker art critic remembered by granddaughter in book
While growing up, Sally Pemberton knew that her grandfather was an art critic for The New Yorker.
View ArticleDean Kugler returns to figure drawing, sculpture after break from art
Dean Kugler entered Black Hawk College as a kinesiology major, and thought that a class in figure drawing might help him better understand the science of human movement.
View ArticleYellow brick road will lead to Figge in '16 with 'Wizard of Oz' exhibit
How did part of what's being called the largest collection of "Wizard of Oz" memorabilia end up heading to the Figge Art Museum in Davenport?
View ArticleNew German American Heritage Center exhibit to focus on Schulz, 'Peanuts'
A tribute to the "Peanuts" comic strip and its creator will be coming to the German American Heritage Center in Davenport during September and October.
View ArticleLightwire Theatre's 'Electric Christmas' coming to Adler
Lightwire Theater’s "A Very Electric Christmas" is coming to the Adler Theatre in downtown Davenport on Friday, Dec. 18.
View ArticleAfter sale of building, MidCoast Fine Arts to remain in Bucktown
The recent completion of the sale of the Bucktown Center for the Arts building in downtown Davenport won't mean any changes for those in the location until late next year.
View ArticleLongtime artists, Clinton natives' work on display
Works by a Knoxville, Ill., oil painter and a Clinton pastel/acrylic artist will go on display beginning tonight at the Quad-City Arts Gallery, 1715 2nd Ave., Rock Island.
View ArticlePeanuts exhibit opens this weekend at German American Heritage Center
Fifteen years after the death of its creator, Peanuts continues to live on.
View ArticleArchitect Sir David Chipperfield looks back at decade-old Figge
Sixteen years after he was chosen to design the Figge Art Museum in Davenport and a decade after it opened, Sir David Chipperfield has returned to the Quad-Cities.
View ArticleGuatemalan painter makes return to Beaux Arts Fair
Eleven years ago, Benedicto Ixtamer made his first visit to the United States, to visit friends in the Quad-Cities and to show his work at the Beaux Arts Fair in downtown Davenport.
View ArticleQuad-City photographer's 2016 calendar going on sale
After seeing numerous eagles out by a Mississippi River roller dam last spring, Heidi Brandt returned the next day, ready to shoot photographs.
View ArticleCancer survivors' artwork on display at new Trinity facility
Ask Pamela Crouch where the newest art in the Quad-Cities is being displayed and she'll respond, "right next to the blood pressure cuffs."
View ArticleDeWitt artist Heidi Draley McFall creates photo-like portraits from pastel chalk
For Heidi Draley McFall, the fact that she can create large, pastel chalk drawings that look like photographs is secondary.
View ArticlePhoto, mixed media exhibits open today at Figge Art Museum
A pair of exhibits open today at the Figge Art Museum, 225 W. 2nd St., Davenport:
View ArticleDavenport watercolor artist Tom Hempel reflects on four decades of work
This has been a year for the books for Tom Hempel.
View ArticleEvent blends live dancing, dancing art
The subject of dance is already being celebrated in an exhibit at the Quad-City Arts' gallery at the Quad-City International Airport.
View ArticlePhotos of the vanishing point
Step off the third-floor elevator at the Figge Art Museum, and the first thing you see is a photograph of six American Indians on horseback riding away from the photographer, becoming more indistinct...
View ArticleTickets for Disney's Dare to Dream show on sale today
Tickets for Disney On Ice's Dare to Dream show at the iWireless Center in Moline go on sale today. Tickets to the performances on Dec. 1-4 are available beginning at 10 a.m.
View ArticlePastel competition held at Bucktown
Teamwork and creativity reigned at the annual challenge for high school student teams whose task was to complete a pastel mural during one day.
View ArticleBettendorf artist reveals complexity, beauty of the human body
Bettendorf watercolorist Kaitlin Walsh combines her love of art, medicine and the human body in breathtakingly beautiful, ethereal portraits of microscopic, vital functions of our five senses.
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