Due to some unforeseen circumstances, the accept/decline notices for the 40th Fine Arts Exhibition will be sent on Wednesday, Jan. 3.

The timeline for getting artwork to the Figge Art Museum remains the same for artists who receive an acceptance notification: Mailed works must arrive by Jan. 15 with a prepaid return label enclosed; Hand-delivered works may be dropped off at the Figge on Jan. 19 and 20 from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

The Figge Art Museum is located at 225 West 2nd Street, Davenport, Iowa.

The Rock Island Art Guild 40th Fine Arts Exhibition at the Figge Art Museum Call for Entries closed on November 30.

Artists will receive decline or acceptance notice on January 1. Instructions for dropping off or shipping artwork to the Figge Art Museum will be included.

The juror, Dr. Patricia McDonnell, will select the prize awards when she visits in late January. The awards will be announced at the Reception on February 1.

Questions contact Holly Sparkman at hksparkman@gmail.com.

Dr. Patricia McDonnell. Photo courtesy Wichita Art Museum.

The Rock Island Art Guild is pleased to have Dr. Patricia McDonnell as the juror for the 40th Fine Arts Exhibition at the Figge Art Museum.

Patricia McDonnell is director of the Wichita Art Museum, a position she’s held for five years. Previously, she served as director of the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University for five years when first coming to Kansas in 2007. With a doctorate in art history from Brown University, McDonnell has worked in art museums for over 30 years. She has training in management as well as art history.

McDonnell has worked in museums around the country—at the Weisman Art Museum at University of Minnesota, the Rhode Island School of Art and Design Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn at the Smithsonian in DC, and the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington state. In those museums, she worked as a curator. She stepped into the shoes of director in coming to the Ulrich at Wichita State.

McDonnell remains an active scholar as well as museum professional. She is one a handful of specialists on artist Marsden Hartley. She is the author of one book, substantive exhibition catalogues that accompanied national touring shows, and numerous scholarly journal articles.

The Rock Island Art Guild 40th Fine Arts Exhibition Call for Entries is 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.

The 40th Fine Arts Exhibition is scheduled for January 27 – May 20, 2018, at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport. Several prize awards are offered.

The juror for the exhibition is Dr. Patricia McDonnell, Director of the Wichita Art Museum.

Artists can enter the Fine Arts Exhibition online  via Juried Arts Services >>

Questions can be directed to Exhibition Chair Holly Sparkman, hksparkman@gmail.com.

The Rock Island Art Guild will open the Call for Entries to the 40th Fine Arts Exhibition in the fall of 2017.

The exhibition dates will be in late winter/early spring of 2018 at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport Iowa.

If you would like to be put on the Call for Entries mailing list, send an email to RIAG President Holly Sparkman.

Artists who had a piece of artwork in the 39th Fine Arts Exhibit can pick up their artwork on Tuesday, May 17 from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.; Friday, May 20 from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. and Saturday, May 21 from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

If there are any questions or other arrangements that need to be made, please contact Jane Koski at janekoski@gmail.com .

Ralph Iaccarino and Drew Starenko. Photo courtesy of the Dispatch/Argus Todd Welvaert.

HAVE YOU BEEN TO THE FIGGE YET TO SEE THE EXHIBIT? Now is the time! The Rock Island Art Guild’s 39th Fine Arts Exhibit is up through May but why wait? Cheers to our artists for making it such a great show and thanks to the Figge for taking it to the next level for the guild.

Read the article by Jonathan Turner in the Dispatch-Argus http://bit.ly/1Rylqfi

Artwork by Denkmann Elementary students is on display at the Rock Island Public Library through the end of January. Inspiration for the projects revolved around masks from different cultures: Mexican folk masks, Ashanti masks (derived from carved wooden designs in Ghana, Africa) and Japanese Kabuki face painting masks. Mediums used were pastels, oils and paper mache.

The art projects were funded by the Rock Island Art Guild and Guild member Gloria Burlingame provided the instruction through a grant from money bequeathed to the guild by Stan and Bernice Harris.