MUSEUM TOURS
Sundays at the Figge • 1:30 pm
Figge tours are a great way to spend Sunday afternoon with family or friends. On most Sundays the museum offers an informal, docent-guided tour that is tailored to your interests. On the last Sunday of the month, a special themed tour will be presented. All Sunday tours begin at 1:30 pm in the lobby and last about 40 minutes.
Upcoming Themed Tours:
January 29 - All About Art
February 26 - Spectacular Sculpture
March 25 - American Landscapes
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Louis Comfort Tiffany, River of Life, 1905, favrile glass, copper foil, lead, LTL1.
STUDY TOURS FOR K-12 STUDENTS
Attention teachers! Figge study trips are a great way to enhance your classroom curriculum. Our docent-guided tours help your students build vocabulary and develop critical thinking skills, while introducing students to the visual arts. Complement your tour with sketching in the galleries or a writing assignment.
Reservations are required and can be arranged with Heather Aaronson at 563.326.7804 x2045 or
haaronson@figgeartmuseum.org. Tours can be scheduled Tuesday-Friday 9 am-4:30 pm.
Group size: minimum of 15 students; maximum 30-150 (depending on tour)
Length of tour: pre-school-kindergarten • 30 minutes; grades 1-3 • 40 minutes; grades 4-6 • 60 minutes; grades 7-12 • 75 minutes
Optional art studio component: art activities require 45 minutes; there is an additional fee for including an art activity
Fees: gallery tours • $3 per student; Look & Do tours • $5 per student (includes an art activity). No charge for teachers and adult chaperones.
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ADULT GROUP TOURS
Bring your group to the Figge for an unforgettable art experience. View world-class art from the Figge's permanent collection, as well as from a variety of traveling exhibitions. A guided tour will enrich your museum visit and offer new insights into the works. Group tours require a minimum of 10 people.
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MEMBER TRIPS
April in Paris!
This trip is currently full. If you would like to be placed on a waiting list, call 563.326.7804 x7887.
Explore one of the most beautiful art cities in the world with other Figge members April 10-19, 2012! Download a flyer with details about this trip, including prices and how you can make your reservations. Highlights include Charteres Cathedral, Musée du Louvre, Notre-Dame, Versailles, as well as many other other significant sites.
Art, Urbanism, and the Parisian Experience
2-3:30 pm Sunday, March 4, 11, 18 and April 1, 2012
Instructor: Heidi E. Kraus, PhD
Free to Figge members
This four-week seminar will examine the art, architecture, urban design, and cultural life of Paris as a means of engaging with the city's historical past — and indeed that of France. In addition to providing an overview of Parisian sites and monuments from throughout history (including Notre-Dame, the Eiffel Tower, and the Louvre), specific periods in French art will be discussed in detail with a noted emphasis on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries.
Dr. Heidi E. Kraus received her Ph.D. in Art History from The University of Iowa in 2010, where she specialized in eighteenth- and nineteenth-Century French art. Currently Dr. Kraus is the Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Iowa Museum of Art and is co-curator of "Napoleon and the Art of Propaganda," an exhibition opening at the UIMA in October 2012.
See where we've been!
View a slideshow from the May 2011 trip to London.
View images from the October 2010 trip to New York CIty.
One of the participants in the 2010 fall trip to NYC created the artwork at left. She says, "The New York City collage was created as a way of expressing the inspiration I felt while viewing the artwork of Joan Snyder, Jackson Pollack, and others from the October Figge trip. Thanks, again, for arranging one of the most enjoyable times of my life. You are among my blessings in 2010."