Meet and Greet is open to the public during our regular hours for you to explore your interests and create art or meet and converse with friends. MAE has workstations, inviting you to channel your inner artist. Easels, drawing horses, two digital cameras and one digital video camera, a Clavinova, sound equipment. Coffee is available…
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Coffee Chat at MAE Every Thursday @ 10 AM – Informal, open chat…and COFFEE!
First and Third Thursdays at Maquoketa Art Experience at 1:00 pm Second and Fourth Thursdays at Maquoketa Brewery at 6:00 pm Maquoketa Art Experience and Maquoketa Public Library are working together to host a fun and crafty social hour. Bring your current knit/crochet work in progress and chat with other crafters. Join Kim Carr at MAE (124 S…
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Andrea Van Wyk's paintings will be on display from September 7, 2023 through October 31, 2023. Meet Andrea and hear more about…
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In collaboration with our friends at the Maquoketa Public Library, we will host a reception for the Tiny Art Show on October 13 from 5 - 7 PM at MAE. Maquoketa Public Library distributed kits to area artists of all ages at the library during the month of September. Participants returned their canvases by…
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Spooky October Fall leaves and YOU making a statement with a "fall-ish" silhouette: the image of a person, animal, object, or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject. Cost: $5 Ages: 9 to Adult Teacher:…
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Squatters on Red Earth, Mary Swander’s latest play, explores the positive relationship that the Amana Colonies have had with the Meskwaki Indigenous people. The Amana Inspirationists fled religious persecution in their homeland in Germany only to become part of the white settler land grab in the United States. The Inspirationists sought productive land hidden from the…
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Eastern Iowa Art Society ExhibitEastern Iowa Art Society and the Maquoketa Art Experience (MAE) invite EIAS members to exhibit during the month of November, 2023 at the Maquoketa Art Experience.You may submit up to two works. Your artwork can be dropped off between October 24th and 28th from 11 am to 4 pm or by…
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Like to hammer, pound, and create? This this class is for YOU! Metal forming and shaping is an art where the artist takes flat metal and shapes it into a round and curvy form. Remember, practice always improves the skill! Cost: $5 Ages: 9 to Adult Teacher: Shirley Deppe Must pre-register online or by calling…
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Vendors and Crafters Needed! Maquoketa Art Experience is inviting indoor Vendors and Crafters to be part of our 2nd Winter Craft and Vendor Fair during Small Business Saturday! We have about 20 available indoor spaces - 8'x10' for $25 each - you supply your own tables. We will supply 1 table for $15 for those…
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Join Brooke Till and Trevis Mayfield on a photographic journey of eastern Iowa’s agriculture community. Over the past 8 years, through their work for The Eastern Iowa Farmer magazine, Till and Mayfield have captured hundreds of images featuring the people who animate the fields, barnyards, feedlots, and kitchens in this…
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THE IOWA WATERCOLOR SOCIETY The Iowa Watercolor Society (IWS) was organized in 1977 by a small group of enthusiastic watercolorists. We have members all over the state and even a few from other states. Each spring and fall, we bring in nationally and internationally recognized…
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Create your holiday motivation with a Holiday Gnome. (A gnome is a mythological creature and introduced in the 16th century). Cost: $10 Ages: 9 to Adult Teacher: Shirley Deppe Must pre-register online or by calling MAE 563-652-9925 by Thursday noon Click the link to register online: https://maquoketa-art.org/?post_type=product&p=2381&preview=true
Local Artist and Author, Kurt Ullrich, will have his personal collection on display during February and March, 2024. The North Gallery will include his photography, most notably from the Iowa State Fair. The South Gallery will host his collection of regional artists, signed lithographs and some original works of art. North Gallery: Kurt's original snapshots…
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