Art Museum

Mailing Address: Augustana College Art Museum, 639 38th St, Rock Island, IL 61201 Director: Sherry C. Maurer Phone: 309.794.7231

The Augustana College Art Museum and Collection provides opportunity for all to experience excellence, educational inquiry and variety in the visual arts. Original art objects reflect strength of mind and spirit and the history of human accomplishment in a diverse and changing world. The program serves the college and community through art collection, preservation and exhibition, and also provides a valuable component to an Augustana liberal arts education through study, teaching and research using original art. The average season attendance for tours and programs exceeds 35,000.

Location

Centennial Hall, at the front of the building located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Seventh Avenue and Thirty-eighth Street, Rock Island.

Public Hours

Noon - 4 p.m., Tuesdays through Saturdays when school is in session (September through May) The changing exhibit galleries are open when special events are held in the auditorium.

Group Tours

Group tours are available with an appointment made in advance when exhibits are displayed, no fee required. Individuals requiring special accomodations please call 309.794.7279.

Parking

Campus tickets given to community visitors should be turned in to the Art Museum guards for cancellation (as long as visitors do not park in illegal areas)

No admission fee!

Upcoming Events

August 23 through September 17: A Memorial Tribute to Jim Konrad

Recognized as one of the top artists of our region, Jim (James) Konrad (1943-2011) is fondly remembered for his willingness to share his expertise on the particulars of artists' materials and methods-whether it was conserving a painting, discussing art history or making chalk pastels from scratch...(read more)

Saturday, September 10, 1:30 p.m: Exhibition Tour of Art Museum

Sherry Maurer, director of the art museum, will introduce the current exhibition. Advance registration appreciated (phone 309-794-7231); limit of 50 people per tour.

Thursday, September 15, 7:30 p.m (Larson Hall): A Tribute to Jim Konrad, followed by reception in the Augustana College Art Museum

On the anniversary of his birthday, Jim Konrad's artistic contributions will be celebrated by Augustana faculty, area artists and supporters.

September 24 through October 29: Augustana College Studio Art Faculty Exhibition

View recent works by Augustana studio art faculty. The bi-annual exhibition features Angela Dieffenbach, ceramic sculptures; Kelvin Mason, integrated media; Christian Mortenson, photography; Megan Quinn, ceramics; Trew Schriefer, paintings; Rowen Schussheim-Anderson, fiber works; Corrine Smith, mixed-media and paintings; Angela Rose Wilson, paintings; and Peter Xiao, paintings and drawings. Several examples of work by the late adjunct professor James Konrad will be included.

Friday, September 23, 4:30-6:30 p.m.: Opening Reception for Augustana College Studio Art Faculty Exhibition

Music provided by Veronica Smith '12 and friends: Carlisle Evans-Peck (piano and voice), Flute Choir, Sassy Pomegranates (piano, guitar, hand drums), and Vernon Meidlinger-Chin (guitar).

October 1, 10:30-11:30 a.m.: Family Weekend Exhibition Tour of Art Museum

October 22, 10:15-11:15 a.m.: Homecoming Saturday Tour of Art Museum

Lively informal discussion of the current exhibition will be led by Sherry Maurer, director of the art museum. Advance registration appreciated at (309) 794-7231; limit of 50 people.

November 15 through February 11: Liberal Arts through the AGES 2011-2012

Liberal Arts through the AGES (Augustana General Education Studies) centers Augustana's pedagogical art history collection in the winter-term liberal studies program. The accompanying exhibition catalogue and first-year textbook is the fifth book published in seven years for this project. This is an unprecedented collaboration of over 200 contributions: half by faculty/administrators and the other half by alumni/students representing various majors and minors, and ranging from the classes of 1987-2014...(read more)

November 30, 7:30 p.m. (Larson Hall): Guest speaker Tom Rassieur, John E. Andrus III Curator of Prints and Drawings, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, on "Rembrandt as Printmaker," followed by a reception in the Augustana College Art Museum

The Vaky Art History Lecture Series, supported by Mr. James Russell Vaky

Tom Rassieur leads the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) Department of Prints and Drawings, a collection of some 40,000 prints and drawings. He was appointed as the John E. Andrus III Curator of Prints and Drawings at the MIA in late 2008. Rassieur came to the MIA from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), where he began as an assistant curator of prints and drawings in 1999, and ultimately served as the Pamela and Peter Voss Curator. He is part of the curatorial team that organized Rembrandt in America, a major exhibition of paintings, which will tour to Raleigh, Cleveland and Minneapolis beginning October 2011...(read more)

March 6 through April 22 (also open on the following Sundays: April 1 and 15 from noon to 4 p.m.; closed Easter Weekend, April 6-9): Thirty-sixth Annual Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibition

Open to visual artists working in any media except video, this annual juried competition for artists residing within a 150-mile radius of the Quad Cities is co-sponsored with the Rock Island Art Guild. Entry specifications are on the Call for Entries to be mailed in November and online at www.augustana.edu/artmuseum. The image entry deadline is January 19. More than $3,000 in awards may be presented, including the Sally MacMillan Watercolor Award given in recognition of the founder of the Rock Island Art Guild...(read more)

Friday, March 30, 4:30-6:30 p.m.: Reception for the Thirty-sixth Annual Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibition

The catalog will be debuted. Refreshments served. Awards will be announced in the Art Museum at 5:40 p.m.

Tuesday, April 17, 7:30 p.m. (Larson Hall): Guest speaker Dr. W. Jackson Rushing III, Adkins Presidential Professor of Art History and Mary Lou Milner Carver Chair in Native American Art at the University of Oklahoma, on "Native American Art and Abstract Expressionism," followed by a reception in the Augustana College Art Museum

Sponsored by the Olson-Brandelle North American Indian Art Collection at Augustana College

For 25 years, the scholarship and teaching of Dr. W. Jackson Rushing III have explored the interstitial zone between (Native) American studies, anthropology and art history. Rushing is Adkins Presidential Professor of Art History and Mary Lou Milner Carver Chair in Native American Art at the University of Oklahoma. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin and previously served as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in Arts and Humanities at UT-Dallas. He works in several intersecting areas: Native American art; modern and contemporary art; Southwest modernism; theory, criticism and methodology; museum studies; and post-colonialism and visual culture. One major work he has addressed in terms of its Native American art influence is the Mural by Jackson Pollock, which has been on display nearby at the Figge Museum of Art, Davenport, Iowa, on loan from the University of Iowa Museum of Art.

Rushing is the author of Native American Art and the New York Avant-Garde (1995), Teresa Marshall: A Bed to the Bones (1998) and Allan Houser: An American Master (2004). He is editor of Native American Art in the Twentieth Century (1999) and After the Storm (2001), and co-author of Modern By Tradition (1995), which received The Southwest Book Award.

April 28 through May 19 (closed for final exams May 15-17): Senior Studio Art Student Exhibition

Senior Inquiry is the culminating experience of an inquiry-based curriculum that asks students to bring synthesis, analysis and reflection to their college years through a capstone project...(read more)

Tuesday, May 8, 10:30 a.m.: Walking Tour

Exhibiting student artists will discuss their works in the Augustana College Art Museum during a 50-minute program.

Sunday, May 20, 12:45-2 p.m.: Closing Reception for the Senior Studio Art Student Exhibition

Meet the artists and enjoy refreshments in the Art Museum.