TOURS

Enhance your visit to the Figge by taking a tour! This fall, each month will feature a different themed tour on Sundays at 1:30 pm.

September • Looking at Art
Learn strategies for how to look a variety of genres, including portraiture, landscape, still life, and religious subjects.

October • The Innovators: Tiffany, Wright, Picasso, and Pollock
Discover how Louis Comfort Tiffany, Frank Lloyd Wright, Pablo Picasso, and Jackson Pollock changed the way we think about art and design.

November • Sculpture Highlights
Experience several sculptures in the collection, as you learn about methods and materials, personal expression, and meaning.



MEMBER TRIPS

Fall Art Tour
Baraboo, Spring Green/Dodgeville
and Mineral Point, Wisconsin
Saturday, October 16 • $65
Members only; reservations required
 
This autumn excursion will take you through the colorful wooded countryside of southwest Wisconsin to the private studios of some of the region’s finest artists and craftspeople. Meet and talk with artists and watch them demonstrate their work. We will also stop at Wollersheim Winery in Prairie du Sac on the way home.

Reservation and payment is due September 10. The trip fee covers transportation. Reservation and payment is due September 10. The trip fee covers transportation. Itinerary will be available soon. Please contact haaronson@figgeartmuseum.org or call 563.326.7804 x2045 for more information.


Chicago
Saturday, November 6 • $50
Members only; reservation required
 
If you can’t go to New York City, come with us to Chicago! The motor coach will take you to the Art Institute of Chicago or the 17th Annual International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art at Navy Pier, which features exquisitely crafted glass, ceramics, textiles, jewelry, wood and furniture.

Reservation and payment is due September 30. The trip fee covers transportation. Itinerary will be available soon. Please contact haaronson@figgeartmuseum.org or call 563.326.7804 x2045 for more information.

For more about the Navy Pier art exposition, visit www.sofaexpo.com.



THIS TRIP IS CURRENTLY FULL. Please check out one of our other fall trips.

New York City
October 6-10
Members only
 
Would you like to visit one of the most exciting art cities in the world? Join Figge Executive Director Sean O’Harrow and senior staff on a five-day trip to New York City where we will visit art museums and galleries during the daytime and explore the cultural scene at night. Our group will visit the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Neue Galerie plus explore the galleries in Chelsea. Our itinerary also includes a city bus tour, a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, a Broadway play. In addition to the group activities, participants will have plenty of time for sightseeing and shopping on their own.


See where we've been!

View images from previous Figge trips.

St. Louis
In March 2010, the Figge Art Museum's Executive Director Sean O'Harrow and senior staff hosted a trip to the St. Louis Art Museum, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, the Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University. View images from the trip.