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Quad City Favorite Back on View Beginning Saturday
October 14, 2019 | 11:29am

Davenport, Iowa (October 14, 2019) – A Quad-City favorite returns to the Figge Art Museum this fall. Artist Rose Frantzen’s nationally celebrated Portrait of Maquoketa will be on view in the Figge’s third floor gallery beginning Saturday, October 19

 

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Figge Art Museum Selects New Executive Director
October 3, 2019 | 1:06pm

Figge Art Museum Selects New Executive Director

Davenport, Iowa (October 14, 2019) – After an extensive nationwide search, The Figge Art Museum is pleased to announce that Michelle Hargrave will become Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the museum effective December 9, 2019. A museum professional with two decades of experience, Hargrave currently serves as the Deputy Director of the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT.

 

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Day of the Dead: The Art of Remembrance Opens Saturday at the Figge Art Museum
October 3, 2019 | 1:03pm

Day of the Dead: The Art of Remembrance Opening Saturday at the Figge Art Museum
Davenport, Iowa (September 19, 2019) – The Figge Art Museum’s second-floor Mary Waterman Gildehaus Community Gallery will feature Day of the Dead: The Art of Remembrance beginning Saturday.

 

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Mia Feuer: Totems of Anthropocene Opening Saturday at the Figge Art Museum
October 3, 2019 | 12:58pm

Davenport, Iowa (September 16, 2019) –Mia Feuer: Totems of the Anthropocene by Artist Mia Feuer will be on view in the fourth-floor gallery beginning Saturday.

Mia Feuer: Totems of the Anthropocene envisions what our environment might become after prolonged exposure to petroleum, a fossil fuel that lives beneath the earth’s surface. From the packaging of the foods we eat to our daily commute, petroleum is a pervasive presence in our lives and the landscape in which we live. Feuer’s work delves into the consequences of mining petroleum from an environmental, social and political perspective.

 

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Exhibition by Renowned Iowa Artist Opening Saturday at the Figge Art Museum
September 12, 2019 | 10:23am

Exhibition by Renowned Iowa Artist Opening Saturday at the Figge Art Museum

Davenport, Iowa (September 9, 2019) – Fall is upon us and with each changing of the season new exhibitions open at the Figge Art Museum. This Saturday, the first of six fall exhibitions will open.




 

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Free Admission at the Figge July 6–August 11, 2019 and Local Artist’s Work to be Featured in the Lewis Gallery
July 18, 2019 | 10:18am

Davenport, Iowa (June 27, 2019) – For the fifth summer in a row, the Figge Art Museum will offer a period of free admission thanks to the generous support of the John Deere Classic and Bechtel Trusts. This summer’s dates are July 6–August 11.

 

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Vik Muniz: Hand Remade to Open at the Figge Art Museum on Saturday
July 18, 2019 | 10:15am

Davenport, Iowa (June 3, 2019) – Opening Saturday, June 8 in the Figge’s third floor gallery is Vik Muniz: Hand Remade.

 

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Figge Art Museum to Sign New Contract with City of Davenport and Quad Cities Cultural Trust on June 3
July 18, 2019 | 10:12am

Davenport, Iowa (May 28, 2019) – The Figge Art Museum will sign a new contract with City of Davenport and Quad Cities Cultural Trust on Monday, June 3 at 2:30 p.m. in the Figge’s Quad City Bank & Trust Grand Lobby.

 

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Dress For Success Benefit Concert to be Held at the Figge Art Museum
July 18, 2019 | 10:09am

Davenport, Iowa (May 16, 2019) – A benefit concert will be held for Dress for Success Quad Cities, which lost its home due to the recent flood in downtown Davenport.

 

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Final Week of Tiffany Glass Exhibition at the Figge Art Museum to Have FREE Admission
July 18, 2019 | 9:59am

Davenport, Iowa (May 9, 2019) – The Figge Art Museum will be FREE to all Saturday, May 11 – Sunday, May 19 during the final days of the Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures From the Driehaus Collection exhibition.

 

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The Next Major Exhibition Supported By the Major Exhibitions Endowment at the Figge Will Be...
June 27, 2019 | 2:59pm



 

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Vanessa German: Miracles and Glory Abound Opens May 11
May 6, 2019 | 3:35pm


 

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Figge Executive Director to Leave Effective July 31
May 6, 2019 | 3:30pm



 

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Submerged in the Sublime: The Landscape Photography of Kim Keever Opening Saturday
February 4, 2019 | 12:58pm


 

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Art Nouveau Amphora Opens Saturday at the Figge Art Museum
January 14, 2019 | 11:14am

The second-floor Lewis gallery at the Figge Art Museum will have Art Nouveau Amphora on view beginning Saturday. The exhibition is organized by the Figge Art Musuem and features works from several private collections.

 

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LOCATION
FIGGE ART MUSEUM

225 West Second Street
Davenport, Iowa

 

PHONE

Museum | 563.326.7804

Events Office | 563.345.6657

 

MUSEUM HOURS

Monday | Closed

Tuesday - Wednesday | 10am - 5pm

Thursday | 10am - 8pm

Friday - Saturday | 10am - 5pm

Sunday | 12pm - 5pm

*Closing procedures will begin 15 minutes before closing time

 

FIGGE BAR HOURS

Monday - Wednesday Closed

Thursday 5pm - 8pm

Friday - Sunday Closed

*The Figge Bar is open every Thursday evening 5-8 p.m. and every Second Saturday of the month from 1-3 p.m.

*See calendar for holiday exceptions