ART AT THE AIRPORT
SHOWCASING CULTURAL VIBRANCY OF OUR COMMUNITY
NOVEMBER 4, 2020 - JANUARY 4, 2021
Nancy Lindsay, Marcia Whitmore, Fryxell Geology Museum
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.
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Nancy Lindsay (Stone City, IA) discovered the beauty of the Iowa landscape when she moved to Iowa in 1998, when her husband introduced her to all the scenic areas. Lindsay states, “Palisades, Pleasant Creek, Pinicon, Wapsipinicon and Backbone Parks are some of my favorite places to paint. As a landscape painter for most of my life, the last few years my paintings have brought me closer into the woods. I have been obsessed with branches, their direction, their movement, their strength, their weakness. The abstract quality of intersecting lines is what I see as I work to build the composition and to the final painting.”
Her paintings can be found in many residential and commercial buildings across the country. She is a member of the Iowa Plein Air Painters. |
Marcia Whitmore (Coal Valley) is a botanical illustrator with a membership in the American Society of Botanical Artists. Her paintings are of orchids exclusively. Her art has been featured 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. Her Facebook page is entitled “A Brush with Orchids.” Many of her watercolors are currently appearing in Orchids (the Journal of the American Orchid Society.)
Marcia is a retired teacher/fine arts coordinator. She received a BA from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois and MS from Western Illinois University. |
Specimens 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.
Due to COVID-19 precautions, the museum currently is 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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Rock Island GalleryThe Quad City Arts Gallery is home to an exhibition space located on the first floor. The building, which was once a turn-of-the-century department store, features hardwood floors, and a fourteen foot-high ceiling. The exhibition space is more than 1,500 sq. ft., a perfect space to showcase large paintings, sculptures and enjoy an occasional performance.
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