Area artists are invited to submit art for a fifth juried exhibition, The Artist’s Showcase: Orange City Arts’ Regional Exhibition. Deadline for submissions is March 18. The exhibit will be April 22-30, 2016 at the Northwestern College DeWitt Theatre Arts Center.
The exhibit is open to artists from Iowa or within a 350-mile radius of Orange City. Any adult, college or high school-age artist may submit up to three works of 2-D or 3-D art, created in the past three years. There is no theme, no entry fee. Work must be submitted digitally to Orange City Arts.
The exhibit will be held in conjunction with the Northwestern College production of Rabbit Hole.
Best of show and honorable mention awards will be given, with $100 and $40 cash prizes. Artists accepted for exhibit will receive complimentary tickets to the theatre production.
Read more and get entry information below.
Nights at the Museum
Events, Front Page, Home Page, News, nowWe have another great summer of special speakers! All programs will start at 6:30 p.m. at the museum.
Tuesday, June 18 | Kaleb Schrock “A Generation of Adventure: The Mountain Men”
Fred Manfred, raised near Doon, Iowa, wrote his most famous book Lord Grizzly about the survival of a real mountain man, Hugh Glass. But what was it really like? Schrock, a mountain man reenactor, will take a look at famous figures in the Rocky Mountain fur trade in the early 1800s and will describe the daily life and the equipment that made it happen.
Tuesday, July 9 |Jim Schaap “The Suckow Story”
These days Schaap spends his time touting the writing of Ruth Suckow, an early 20th century writer whose work features rural Iowa. After introducing Suckow, who was born in Hawarden, a performance of talented local thespians will perform a reader’s theater based on Suckow’s story, “A Great Mollie.”
Tuesday, August 13 | Andrew Klump “Double Dutch: Dutch Immigrants as Both Settlers and Missionaries?”
Almost as soon as they put down roots in Sioux County, the Dutch settlers began planning to spread the Gospel throughout the world to places like China, Japan, and the Middle East. Klump will discuss the connections between the vision that both built the Dutch colonies in Sioux County and also informed a far-reaching global missionary effort.
Tuesday, September 17 | Del Walinga “The Antiquity of Policing”
Walinga will show the rich history of the development of the law enforcement profession by looking at significant milestones both internationally and locally. Who knows what you might learn about the underbelly world of crime in Orange City?
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