events

Thursdays at the Figge


5-8 pm Thursdays

Free with museum membership or paid admission, and free admission to all college students with student ID
Free admission to John Deere employees and their families, and John Deere retirees through October 24, 2010...

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Fall Beaux Arts Fair


September 11-12

The Beaux Arts Fair offers visitors the opportunity to find artworks in a variety of mediums from artists around the country. The Fall Fair is held on and in front of the Figge Plaza on Second Street. The Figge will have a kid's art tent from 11 am-...

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Fall Harvest Family FREE Day


1-3 pm Saturday, September 18
Free admission sponsored by John Deere

Come to the Figge’s Fall Harvest FREE Family Day, a celebration of the special exhibition Global Currents: The John Deere Art Collection.  Enjoy story time, gre...

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Lecture – Hieronymus Bosch, Original Sin, and Death


7 pm Thursday, September 30
Larry Silver, PhD

 
No painter of the late Middle Ages captured the flames of Hell and the fear of death more than Hieronymus Bosch. This talk will amplify the pessimistic view of death and dying in the Figge exhibition by foc...

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Symposium: Mercedes Matter


2-4 pm Saturday, October 2

Mercedes Matter will be the subject of two lectures and a discussion in conjunction with Mercedes Matter: A Retrospective Exhibition.

“What a Picture Should Mean: Hans Hofmann, Mercedes Matter and the Role o...

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