From Brian Riggs Fort Madison Area Arts Association Director FORT MADISON – Best of the Best is so worth the wait. Ft. Madison Area Arts Association is the next stop in southeast Iowa for the [Read More…]
BY BRIAN RIGGSFMAAA Director FORT MADISON – January means kid’s art at FMAAA gallery with the Annual Budding Artist Exhibition. This feature is over a decade strong now so had to do some digging. However, it is [Read More…]
BY BRIAN RIGGS FMAAA Director Annie Swarm Guldberg is the feature artist at Ft. Madison Area Arts Association this November bringing “Dreamlands and More” with her. This vibrant world of oil color and texture welcomes [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – With city hotel/motel tax revenues on a 20% slide from previous years, request for funding from the Fort Madison Tourism Commission will look a lot different going [Read More…]
BY BRIAN RIGGS FMAAA Director FORT MADISON – Feature exhibition at Ft. Madison Area Arts Association for October is Susan Lawhorn of Macomb, IL. Her specialization medium is ceramics. A reception occurs for the artist [Read More…]
Ft. Madison’s Art-in-Central Park has a decade of family fun Sundays under their belt since FMAAA brought the event back to town. Plenty of visual artists will be displayed under the shade trees of Central [Read More…]
BY BRIAN RIGGS FMAAA Director Mark your calendars for a must-see and hear cultural arts weekend September 21st-23rd in Lee County, Iowa. The action begins in Keokuk on 9/21 with two main entrees to choose [Read More…]
BY BRIAN RIGGS FMAAA Director FORT MADISON – The art industry like all else in life is constantly changing. A decade ago Barn Quilts were all the rage. Last few years Paint-Your-Own Canvas parties certainly [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Lori Illner Greene got preoccupied with a new concept in physics called “string-theory”, a controversial model of subatomic composition, and it spilled all over her canvas. String [Read More…]
BY BRIAN RIGGS FORT MADISON AREA ARTS ASSOCIATION FORT MADISON – Fort Madison Area Arts Association always organizes a challenging annual art camp in July that concentrates on guest instructors teaching how to utilize raw [Read More…]
BY BRIAN RIGGS Fort Madison Area Arts Association FORT MADISON – Expressions Art Auction is the annual fundraiser for the Ft. Madison Area Arts Association this Saturday at Comfort Inn & Suites in Ft. Madison. [Read More…]
Courtesy of Fort Madison Arts Association FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Area Arts Association presented it’s annual Art-In-Central-Park awards on Sunday. Artist Trax wins $250 Ft. Madison Partners Purchase Award awarded by Tim Gobble [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Ft. Madison Area Arts Association (FMAAA) celebrates a decade since Art-in-Central was resurrected in a new format from the history of “Weekend in Central Park”. The event runs on [Read More…]
Courtesy of Brian Riggs Fort Madison Area Arts Association FORT MADISON – Ft. Madison Area Arts Association always contributes to Ft. Madison’s major tourism month. The September feature exhibition uniquely blends the artistry of The [Read More…]
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