Museum Store Trunk Show
August 25, 2018 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Category: Museum Store
Experience the Journey! Admire beautiful designs created from original paintings or photographs by featured artists Anna Bateson, Natalee Birchansky and David Clack. This is your opportunity to see the limited time selections of their stunning art through the forms of jewelry, wearable art and purses.
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Museum Store Trunk Show
August 26, 2018 12:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Category: Museum Store
Experience the Journey! Admire beautiful designs created from original paintings or photographs by featured artists Anna Bateson, Natalee Birchansky and David Clack. This is your opportunity to see the limited time selections of their stunning art through the forms of jewelry, wearable art and purses.
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Doodlebugs at the Marion Public Library: Teatro La Scala
August 28, 2018 10:45 AM
Category: Doodlebugs
Pack your bag and set off on an art adventure through Europe! Inspired by the CRMA’s summer exhibition, The Grand Tour: Europe Through Artists’ Eyes, we’ll learn about the landmarks and cultures of several European countries through fun art projects perfect for your preschooler. No passport required!
We’re going to the opera today! Join us for a really silly musical book and hear some Italian opera. Then we’ll create our own theatrical production you won’t want to miss!
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Doodlebugs at the Hiawatha Library: Pompeii
August 31, 2018 10:30 AM
Category: Doodlebugs
Destination: Pompeii
Visit this historic site along with a dog named Hadrian in today’s book. Create a mosaic to take home, and watch Mount Vesuvius erupt!
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Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio, Stepping Into Art
September 13, 2018 06:00 PM
Category: Guided Meditation
Your favorite works of art…oh how they enthrall and captivate! Imagination morphs into inner-docent as we allow our creative consciousness to lead us into our most cherished pieces. Will Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” enrapture? Or Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” unveil the secrets behind her smile? Join us on this meditative journey and find out…
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Art Lovers Book Club: The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern
September 20, 2018 04:00 PM
Category: Art Lover's Book Club
Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists: Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. The Art of Rivalry follows these eight celebrated artists, each linked to a counterpart by friendship, admiration, envy, and ambition. All eight are household names today. But to achieve what they did, each needed the influence of a contemporary, one who was equally ambitious but possessed sharply contrasting strengths and weaknesses.
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Art Bites: Inside the Exhibition - One War, One Man, One Hundred Years with artist Michael Wilson
October 3, 2018 12:15 PM
Category: Art Bites
Join artist Michael Wilson as he discusses his exhibition One Man, One War, One Hundred Years, based on the memories of his great-uncle Herb Thordsen. A talented oil painter, Wilson was inspired by memories of Thordsen, his great-uncle’s memorabilia, and the one-hundredth anniversary of the WWI armistice.
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Art Lovers Book Club:The Marriage of Opposites
October 18, 2018 04:00 PM
Category: Art Lover's Book Club
A forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro. Growing up on idyllic St Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. When her older husband suddenly dies and his handsome younger nephew Frederick arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story by beginning a defiant passionate love affair with Frederick. A scandal ensues which affects all of her family including her favorite son who will become one of the greatest artists of France.
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Art Bites: If We Ran the Zoo: Animals in Children’s Book Illustration
November 7, 2018 12:15 PM
Category: Art Bites
Join Associate Curator Kate Kunau to walk through the newest exhibition, If We Ran the Zoo: Animals in Children’s Book Illustration. Drawn from the Zerzanek Collection of Original Art from Children's Literature on loan to the CRMA from the Cedar Rapids Public Library, If We Ran the Zoo looks at the various ways animals have shaped children’s literature, from simple science books to loyal pets to fantastical, talking companions.
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