Rock Island Art Guild

09/09/2022

Azubuike Arts held a wonderful open house tonight. The Guild has provided funding for their children's art programming.

03/13/2022

The Figge Art Museum has just added an additional Wine and Art event, "Sunflowers for Ukraine". Proceeds will go to the charity "Save the Children" for Ukrainian refugee relief. Scheduled for March 24, spaces are limited to 20. Register on the Figge Art Museum website. Have a fun evening while supporting a great cause. Please SHARE to help fill the class.

03/05/2022

At this morning's juror's brunch at the Figge Art Museum, it was mentioned that few watercolor paintings were entered in the current exhibit. Wanting to find out if interest in this medium is waning, I found this article. Perhaps a bit of "bias" as the arist interviewed are established pros. (No publishing date on this.)
www.theartistsroad.net/articles/whywatercolor

Learn why you too can learn to paint in watercolor from these top masters of the medium.

02/17/2022

It's been a great response to the RIAG/ Figge exhibition. The territory was expanded to include Des Moines and Chicago, and images of more than 700 pieces were received. The Figge Art Museum selected Susan Watts , owner of Olsen-Larsen Galleries in Des Moines, as juror. Selected entries are being delivered this week- it won't be long now!
Thinking of jurors for art exhibits, this article from Professional Artist Magazine may answer some questions about the process. Comments in it by Kathy Miller Stone, an experienced jurist, regarding jury panels and nepotism are thought-provoking.
professionalartistmag.com/judge-and-jury/

Entering an art show, at any level of your career, is a wonderful judge of gaining validation and recognition.

12/23/2021

Gearing up for the show in 2022. Here's the link: Application link: https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=9666

The deadline is January 16th!!!

Read more about 42nd Rock Island Art Guild Fine Arts Exhibition on CaFE

09/19/2021

RIAG member Sherry Mauer received the Harley Award today at the Riverssance Art Festival!

09/16/2021

Congratulations to Art Guild member, Sherry Maurer!

"Sherry Case Maurer is the recipient of the 2021 Harley Award for Outstanding Community Art Support. This is an annual award bestowed during the Riverssance Festival of Fine Art that will be given at a 5:30 p.m. reception on Saturday, September 18 in Lindsay Park, Davenport. "

09/05/2021

The Guild was happy to provide funding for this program.

"For three weeks in July of 2021, Azubuike provided art instruction for kids attending the summer program at the Martin Luther King Center in Rock Island. Local artist Gwen Ballard Patton taught two classes on Tuesdays from 1:00-3:00 for nine and ten-year-olds, and two classes on Wednesdays from 1:00-3:00 for seven and eight-year-olds. The kids created and customized portfolios from corrugated cardboard, then created artwork to go inside their portfolios. Their work went home with them at the end of the summer program."

08/23/2021

The Art Guild contributed to the funding of this project! The mural is located off 20th Street in Rock Island, across from Leo's Shoe Repair.

03/30/2021

Sadly, the group wasn't able to meet in person this past year, but accomplishments are being made via "virtual" voting. The Guild members voted to fund art materials for several non-profit groups: the R.I. Library's summer art program and future arts/ crafts programs for adults, the Rocky High Resource Room outreach to families project, Quad City Arts programming, the Figge outreach programs for children, R.I. elementary students for the Figge "Young Artist's" exhibit in May, Spring Forward summer camps, and awards for Q.C. Arts High school students represented in the yearly high school exhibit.

01/04/2021

Warm weather memories: examples of work by student participants of "Dragon Tales", this past summer's Rock Island Library virtual art program. The Art Guild provided funding for art supplies! IH Mississippi Valley Credit Union donated folders which were turned into "portfolios". Each portfolio was filled with paper and instructions for 6 art classes, and each participant received water-soluble color pencils and a paint brush. Thirty children participated. The classes were taught by Art Guild member Gloria Burlingame. These pieces from session 1 involved blank pop-up eggs on which the artists created dragon embryoes.