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Exhibition Galleries: 10,000 sq ft (1,000 m 2). Educational Classrooms: 5,000 sq ft (500 m 2). In 1985, Margaret Ann Everist established a Building Endowment Fund, and the Art Center Association of Sioux City, led by William T. Dible, Dr. Frederick Stark and others, raised money specifically to build the current Sioux City Art Center.
Artspace is an online marketplace for contemporary art.The company is based in New York City, New York and was launched in 2011.. The site in 2013 had over $100 million in art for sale on its marketplace and had received investment from Accelerator Ventures and Metamorphic Ventures.
Today's Figge Art Museum is the successor to the city-owned Davenport Art Museum, which itself began as the Davenport Municipal Art Gallery in 1925. The museum's original collection was donated by Charles Ficke (1850–1931) , a successful lawyer and former mayor, who collected art from around the world. [ 2 ]
The University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) opened in 1969, although the art collections of the University of Iowa predate the museum by several decades. During the 1940s and 1950s, the university's School of Art and Art History presented exhibitions of contemporary art and acquired works from these exhibitions.
The museum was established in 1987 by the Dubuque Art Association. The first major exhibition was a retrospective of Dubuque-area artist Francesco Licciardi's work. The museum was housed in the old county jail alongside the Art Association for its first few years, at which time the administration realized they could not meet American Association of Museums standards in that building.
Robert Shetterly (born 1946) is an American artist, best known for his portrait series, "Americans Who Tell the Truth". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Americans Who Tell the Truth
The Iowa flood of 2008 damaged the 1936 Art Building and Steven Holl's Art Building West. Art Building West was restored and re-opened January 2012. The 1936 Art Building will be retained on campus as an historic property, but many of its functions have been moved to a new visual arts building designed by Steven Holl opened in the fall of 2016.
MacNider Art Museum, officially the Charles H. MacNider Art Museum, is an art museum conceived in 1964 and opened to the public in 1966 in Mason City, Iowa. It is housed in a former convent. [1] The museum is known for its collection of American art, and includes paintings, prints, drawings, ceramics, sculpture, fused and blown glass and textiles.