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Congratulations to the award winners of the Figge’s College Invitational! 🎉This biennial exhibition celebrates the artwo...
10/16/2026

Congratulations to the award winners of the Figge’s College Invitational! 🎉

This biennial exhibition celebrates the artwork of students from regional colleges and universities. This year, thirty-eight students from Black Hawk College, Clarke University, Knox College, Monmouth College, St. Ambrose University, and Western Illinois University were chosen by their professors to participate.

This exhibition provides students with the opportunity to have their artwork displayed in a museum and to see what other local artists are creating.

🏆 First Place
Maya Dengler Kaufman, Knox College, “Floating Dream”

🥈 Second Place
Alexis Miller, Wester Illinois University, “August 2nd”

🥉 Third Place
Daisy Blunt, Black Hawk College, “Curated Perception”

✨ Favorite Concept
Ronny Macias, St. Ambrose University, “Untitled”

✨ Staff Favorite 1
Andrea Castañeda, Monmouth College, “It Could Happen Today” Series

✨ Staff Favorite 2
Ellie McBride, Western Illinois University, “Seahorse”

🚨 Fan Favorite Award
TBD: To vote for your favorite artwork, scan the Fan Favorite award QR code in the exhibit! 🤳

Congratulations to all of the award winners and to each of the artists selected for the 2026 College Invitational! 👏
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Exhibition Sponsors
🙏 Sponsor: Alan C. Marin
🙏 Supporting Sponsors: The Brand Boeshaar Foundation and the Hubbell-Waterman Foundation

Thursday nights at the Figge are sponsored by Chris and Mary Rayburn.

Discover your new favorite artist before everyone else!The Figge’s "College Invitational" celebration is TONIGHT and the...
10/15/2026

Discover your new favorite artist before everyone else!

The Figge’s "College Invitational" celebration is TONIGHT and there’s so much to see. Seven local colleges are participating in this year's exhibition, showcasing an incredible range of emerging artistic talent.

These artists pour their hearts, souls, and talents into their work. Some explore family relationships, others reflect on nostalgia for a time they never knew, but each brings a unique perspective to the gallery.

Selected by professors who recognize their students' promise and potential, these works represent some of the exciting artistic talent emerging from colleges across our region.

Join us tonight and enjoy free admission from 4-8 p.m. and a special celebration at 6 p.m., honoring the talented student artists featured in this year's exhibition.
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Thursdays at the Figge are sponsored by Chris and Mary Rayburn

🖼️ Installation view: "College Invitational," Figge Art Museum, 2026.

The devil is in the details. 😈The Devil arrived in Mexico with Christianity. But ideas don’t necessarily remain intact w...
10/14/2026

The devil is in the details. 😈

The Devil arrived in Mexico with Christianity. But ideas don’t necessarily remain intact when they cross cultures.

Spanish missionaries preached a Christian worldview centered on the Devil as the embodiment of evil to Indigenous cultures with very different understandings of spirits, danger, and the supernatural. Over generations, those ideas intermingled.

The result? Mexican Diablos can certainly be frightening, but they can also be mischievous, ridiculous, playful, and surprisingly human.

Long horns. Pointed Teeth. Bright colors. Human(ish) faces. Serpents surrounding eyes. Grotesque features.

Some Devil masks even incorporate features associated with older Indigenous imagery, creating faces in which different traditions become difficult to separate.

In “Mexican Roots,” devils appear on masks and in sculpture, sometimes looking considerably more interested in causing trouble than condemning anyone to eternal damnation.

See these devils and discover how centuries of tradition have shaped their many forms in “Mexican Roots,” on view through February 21, 2027.
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🖼️ Installation view: "Mexican Roots: Masks, Prints and Traditional Arts of Mexico," Figge Art Museum, 2026, courtesy of Harry Walker

If you’ve ever played with Play-Doh or built with wooden blocks, then Tommy Riefe’s “Fold, Press” might bring back some ...
10/12/2026

If you’ve ever played with Play-Doh or built with wooden blocks, then Tommy Riefe’s “Fold, Press” might bring back some memories.

Davenport artist Tommy Riefe transforms cast plaster, paint, and laminated pine into larger-than-life sculptures. Drawing inspiration from playing with his kids, “Fold, Press” expresses the fun and freedom of experimentation.

“Fold, Press” is on display in the Figge’s “Rock Island Art Guild Fine Arts Exhibition,” along with artwork by 57 other local artists.

To view more of Tommy Riefe’s artwork, you can visit his website tommyriefe(dot)com or follow on Instagram.
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🖼️ Tommy Riefe, “Fold, Press,” 2025, cast plaster, paint, and laminated pine

If you’re looking for something to do this Second Saturday, stop by the Figge Art Museum! We have fun free activities fo...
10/09/2026

If you’re looking for something to do this Second Saturday, stop by the Figge Art Museum! We have fun free activities for all ages. Try out some yoga in the galleries, join Laura Warner for sketchbook club, enjoy free snacks while creating your own artwork, and watch short animated films in the auditorium.

If you have any questions about the art around you, the docents are happy to provide you with answers. Feel free to share your feedback at our chat-back station in Studio 4.

FREE MUSEUM ADMISSION | 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

🧘‍♂️10:30 a.m. | Free Yoga at the Figge (Avenue Gallery)

🖼️ 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Art Cart in the Collection Avenue (2nd Floor)

✏️ 1:00 p.m. | Second Saturday Sketchbook Club with Laura Warner (2nd Floor)

💀 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Enjoy free snacks while you create artworks inspired “Mexican Roots” (Studio 4)

🎬 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Pop in to view a series of animated short films (Auditorium)

🎤 2:00 p.m. | Art Matters: Join a docent for a 20-minute conversation about art

Second Saturdays are made possible by Art Bridges Foundation's Access for All Program!

There will only ever be one “Amanda Burnham: Everything to Everyone,” and it’s taking shape at the Figge right now.Balti...
10/07/2026

There will only ever be one “Amanda Burnham: Everything to Everyone,” and it’s taking shape at the Figge right now.

Baltimore-based artist Amanda Burnham is transforming the Gildehaus Gallery one drawing at a time as she creates her immersive, site-specific installation. She’ll be working in the gallery through Thursday, and visitors are welcome to stop by and watch the process unfold.

We caught up with Burnham during the installation and asked what makes the work she’s creating at the Figge unique:

“The piece that I’ve made for the Figge will only ever be on view here. It is specific to here. While I will use the pieces that made this piece again in totally different ways in future work, it will never be as it is here anywhere else ever again.”

Hear more from Burnham during her Artist Talk, happening tomorrow, Thursday, October 8 at 6 p.m. The talk and admission is free, and while “Amanda Burnham: Everything to Everyone” officially opens on Saturday, October 10, we have a feeling Thursday-night visitors might get a first look. 👀

Thursdays at the Figge are sponsored by Chris and Mary Rayburn.

Secret marriage. Spies. Treason. Ex*****on. Imprisonment. There’s much more to this beautiful portrait than meets the ey...
10/06/2026

Secret marriage. Spies. Treason. Ex*****on. Imprisonment. There’s much more to this beautiful portrait than meets the eye…

The daughter of an English earl and his Scottish wife, Catherine Howard was born into a wealthy noble family.

Despite the wishes of both King Charles I and her parents, Catherine secretly married George Steward, 9th Signeur d’Aubigny in 1638. The bouquet of roses in this portrait by van Dyck symbolizes this occasion.

After her husband’s death during the First English Civil War in 1642, Catherine traveled to London under the guise of managing his estate. However, she was secretly passing coded letters between the king and his Royalist sympathizers. When her role in the Waller Plot was discovered, she was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Other conspirators were hanged, but Catherine leveraged her deceased husband’s French titles to arrange for her release.

Catherine remarried to Sir James Livingstone, 1st Earl of Newburgh, during the Second English Civil War in 1648 and hatched a plot to rescue the king. After an unsuccessful attempt, Charles I was executed and the couple escaped to the Netherlands, where Catherine died just a year later in exile.
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🖼️ Sir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599–1641), “Catherine Howard, Lady d’Aubigny,” circa 1638, oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Widener Collection, 1942.9.95

Where does history end and mythology begin?In “Mexican Roots,” the answer isn’t always clear. Indigenous beliefs, Europe...
10/05/2026

Where does history end and mythology begin?

In “Mexican Roots,” the answer isn’t always clear. Indigenous beliefs, European influences, religious traditions, folklore, and lived experience intermingle, creating works where the sacred and everyday, fact and fiction, past and present exist side by side.

Look closely and you’ll find layers of stories, symbols, and traditions—some centuries old, others continually bringing reimagined.

Come explore “Mexican Roots,” where memory, ritual, and art endure. On view now at the Figge.
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🖼️ Installation view: "Mexican Roots: Masks, Prints and Traditional Arts of Mexico," Figge Art Museum, 2026.

The Figge is on Artle! 🎨👀Today, we’re taking over Artle as the featured museum partner in the National Gallery of Art's ...
10/02/2026

The Figge is on Artle! 🎨👀

Today, we’re taking over Artle as the featured museum partner in the National Gallery of Art's daily art game, which challenges players to identify an artist from four works of art.

Think you know the Figge Collection? We’re not giving you any hints. 😉 Play today’s Artle and see how quickly you can guess the artist and explore a few works from the Figge Collection along the way.

🎨 Play Artle: https://www.nga.gov/artle

October is packed with art, fall fun, and lots of reasons to visit the Figge. 🎃 Spend a free Thursday night catching a f...
10/01/2026

October is packed with art, fall fun, and lots of reasons to visit the Figge. 🎃

Spend a free Thursday night catching a film, hearing from an artist, or exploring the galleries and newest exhibitions; or get creative with a fall workshop or class. And beginning this month, Free Thursday Nights expand to 4–8 p.m., giving you even more time to experience something new at the Figge. ✨

🎬 Free Film at the Figge
Thursday, October 1 | Film at 6 PM
Free screening of “I, Daniel Blake.”

🎨 Artist Talk: Amanda Burnham
Thursday, October 8 | 6 PM
Artist Amanda Burnham talks about her site-specific installation at the Figge. Using acrylic on paper and a frantic, comic-inspired visual language, Burnham creates three-dimensional drawings that play with traditional pictorial space.

🎉 Second Saturday
Saturday, October 10 | 10 AM–5 PM
Enjoy free admission and activities throughout the museum.

🎓 College Invitational Celebration & Awards
Thursday, October 15 | 6 PM
Celebrate works by students from eight different academic institutions during this special exhibition celebration and awards program.

🦇 Bats & Bells Halloween Workshop
Saturday, October 17 | 1–3PM
Get into the Halloween spirit with a special art workshop for ages 9–12 led by Seth Chappell. This workshop is $15 and you can register online.

🎤 Chit Chat with Rock Island Art Guild Artists
Thursday, October 22 | 6 PM
Hear fast and fun presentations from artists featured in this year’s “44th Rock Island Art Guild Fine Arts Exhibition.”

💀 Collector Talk: “Mexican Roots”
Thursday, October 29 | 6 PM
Take a deeper look at “Mexican Roots,” during a special talk exploring the exhibition.

👻 Create with Cocktails: Ghosts for Grownups
Thursday, October 29 | 6–8 PM
Spend some time this Halloween week getting creative with Seth Chappell during this adults-only workshop. Registration is $35 Members/$40 Non-Members and includes a cocktail.

🖼️ Guided Tours
Sundays at 2 PM | Free with Admission
• October 4 – Women in Art
• October 11 – Highlights
• October 18 – Look Again, It’s Not What You Think
• October 25 – Highlights

🔗 Download the calendar now: https://go.fliplink.me/view/53BF83F1-D136-43E0-BFA3-F88250E3A88E

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