SHOWCASING CULTURAL VIBRANCY OF OUR COMMUNITY
ART AT THE AIRPORT
Lindsay, Whitmore, ANd Fryxell Geology Museum
November 4 - January 4, 2021
From November 4-January 4, 2021, Quad City Arts Art at the Airport presents Nancy Lindsay’s landscape paintings, Marcia Whitmore’s botanical watercolors and a selection of fossils & minerals from Augustana College’s Fryxell Geology Museum.
Nancy LindsayNancy Lindsay was born in 1948 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Art has always been her primary interest, even as a young child.
She studied art at Colorado State University and Art Students League NY. She worked for many years in the commercial printing industry as a graphic designer. Moving to Iowa in 1998, she discovered the beauty of the Iowa landscape. “My husband introduced me to all the scenic areas in Iowa. Palisades, Pleasant Creek, Pinicon, Wapsipinicon and Backbone Parks are some of my favorite places to paint.” She is a member of the Iowa Plein Air Painters. In 2003, she was one of ten international artists invited to participate in an artist residency in the Rhodope Mountains of Bulgaria. As a result of this extended trip, she has 35 paintings chronicling her travels. Each painting was painted on location from Paris to Istanbul. Her paintings can be found in many residential and commercial buildings across the country. Nancy Lindsay works from her studio in Stone City, Iowa. nancylindsay.com |
Marcia WhitmoreI am a botanical illustrator with a membership in the American Society of Botanical Artists. My paintings are of orchids exclusively. I have had shows at the Chicago Botanical Center, the Clinton Art League, the Quad City Botanical Center, Studios in the Park, Paso Robles, CA and the Fairchild Botanical Center in Florida and also many displays at orchid shows. I maintain a Facebook page entitled A Brush With Orchids. All of my paintings are for sale. Many of my watercolors are currently appearing in Orchids….the Journal of the American Orchid Society. The painting of Cypripedium acaule is featured on the poster for the Great River Chapter of the American Society of Botanical Artists. This painting is also included in the Virtual Exhibit in the Ames Art Center in Burnsville, MN. It is a virtual art show and can be seen at: ames-center.com
Two painting in this show are especially important…Cypripedium acaule and Isotria verticillata. These two paintings were completed from photos done by Jim Fowler. Jim’s photos are featured on the new United State Stamps of Native Orchids. I so appreciate and thank Jim for the use of his gorgeous photos. Jim has seen and photographed more native orchids then I will ever hope to see. fowlerphotography.com |
SPECIMENSSpecimens from Augustana's Fryxell Geology Museum collections were selected for this exhibit to highlight the beauty of the art and science of landscape, and include fossil leaves preserved in volcanic ash, preserved textures in petrified wood, minerals as vivid as the colors on a painter's palette, and fossilized sea animals that resemble botanical illustrations of lilies.
The Fryxell Geology Museum is one of the largest and finest collections of rocks, minerals, and fossils in the Midwest. Favorite exhibits include a wall of glowing, fluorescent rocks and a complete 22-foot long skeleton of crested and carnivorous Cryolophosaurus, a dinosaur discovered in Antarctica by an Augustana geology professor. The museum serves as a teaching resource for Augustana students and the public for the understanding of Earth’s history, processes and materials, and promotes earth science awareness through displays, free educational programming, teaching kits loaned free-of-charge to schools and organizations, and community outreach. The Fryxell museum is currently open to the public free-of-charge, by appointment only. To make an appointment, call 309-794-7318 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. augustana.edu/fryxellmuseum |
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ABOUT Art at the Airport
The Quad City International Airport gallery space, also known as Art at the Airport, is a formal contemporary gallery that has more than 1,600 sq. ft. of exhibition space in floor-to-ceiling glass cases. Nearly one million visitors view this space annually. This gallery is located in the front of the main arrival/departure seating area. Exhibits in this space are bi-monthly and showcase artists living within 250 miles of the Quad City area.
For more information, visit the Quad City International Airport website.
For more information, visit the Quad City International Airport website.
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