BLANDEN ART MUSEUM

Soft Geometry 

Colin C. Smith 

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East Gallery 

February 3 - April 20, 2024

Reflection of History 

Luminating History of Black Fort Dodge

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Second Floor Gallery 

Dec 2 - Feb 18, 2024

Captured Moments

Mary Jo Hinds

 

East Gallery 

Nov 4 - Jan 20, 2024

Delineations of Structure: 

The Grid, Architecture and Perspective

 

West Gallery 

January - December 30, 2023

Afield 

Byron Anway 

 

Second Floor Gallery 

Sept 2 - Nov 25, 2023

Creative Repertoire 

Dr. Carmon Slater 

 

East Gallery 

Aug 5 - Oct 21, 2023

Moments in Time: Point and Click

John Moyers

 

East Gallery 

May 6 - July 22, 2023

Fiber

Selections from the Blanden Art Collection

 

Second Floor Gallery 

March 4 - June17, 2023

Land Changes 

Deborah Zisko

 

East Gallery 

February 11 - April 22, 2023

Iowa Eyes

A New Perspective 

Second Floor Gallery 

January 7 - February 18, 2023

Garden Walk 

Mary Muller   

East Gallery 

September 10 - January 21, 2023

IRON WORKS

Steven Maeck  

Second Floor Gallery 

October 1 - December 17, 20222

Taylor Laufersweiler

Out of Place  

Second Floor Gallery 

August 13 - September 17, 2022

Mark True 

Still Standing  

East Gallery

June 4 - August 27, 2022

Milton Wolsky 

A Mid-Century Midwestern Artist 

Second Floor Gallery

May 7 - July 23, 2022

"BEFORE LANGUAGE

East Gallery
February 26- May 21, 2022 

"Entropy / Harmony" 

Judy Bales & Ananda Kesler 

Second Floor Gallery
March 19 - April 23, 2022 

Hidden Faces: Selected Works from the Roy Burgess Collection  

Roy Burgess 

Second Floor Gallery 

January 8 - March 5, 2022

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FAR / NEAR 

Letha Kelsey

East Gallery

November 27, 2021 - February 12, 2022 

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Creating Unity: A Centennial Celebration 

Works by Women Artists form 1890-Present from the permanent collection. 

West Gallery

January 2020 - December 2021 

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Anthropocene Blues: 

Nature and the Social Imagination 

Sandra Williams 

Second Floor Gallery

October 16 - December 18, 2021

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Inside the Tree

Roger Nass

East Gallery

Aug 21 - Nov 13, 2021

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Outsider's Perspective 

Clark Grinde  

Second Floor Gallery

Aug 7 - Oct 2, 2021

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It's Not About Me

Jamie Burmeister 

Second Floor Gallery

May 29 - July 24, 2021

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Brotherhood: War in Ukraine

Brendan Hoffman 

East Gallery

May 22 - Aug 7, 2021

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COLOR BOMB! 

Roger Feldhans 

Second Floor Gallery

March 20 - May 15, 2021

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PEOPLE AND PLACES

Tara Moorman 

East Gallery

March 27 - May 8, 2021

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New California Views  

Blanden Permanent Collection 

East Gallery

January 16 - March 13, 2021

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Iowa Watercolor Society 

Traveling Exhibit 

2nd Floor Gallery

February - March, 2021

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Ukiyo-e 

Prints from the Blanden Permanent Collection

2nd Floor Gallery

January 2, 2021 - January 30, 2021

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Past and Present 

Fort Dodge Camera Club Exhibit ​

 

2nd Floor Gallery

October 17, 2020 - December 19,2020

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Iowa Land and Sky 

Paintings by Kirk Hovenga ​

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East Gallery

October 10 - December 26, 2020

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Icons of Our Spirit 

Paintings by Ann Marie McTaggart 

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East Gallery

April 11, 2020 - October 3, 2020

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Art as Medicine 

Artists React to Present State 

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Blanden Digital Gallery

COVID-19 Exhibit 

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Encounters with Nature

Selected prints from the Harold D. Peterson Collection 

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2nd Floor Gallery

May 30 - August 1, 2020

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The Portrait 

Reed White 

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East Gallery

January 4 - March 28, 2020

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Analog It  

Juried Film Based Photography Exhibit 

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Second Floor Gallery

January 4 - March 7, 2020

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Digital Photo Composites

Denis Hagen

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East Gallery

September 28 - December 21, 2019

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Our Town: Reclaiming the Narrative

Curated by Lenore Metrick-Chen, Art History Professor at Drake University

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2nd Floor Gallery

October 1 - November 19, 2019

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Present / Tense

Tom & Malayka Gormally

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East & 2nd Floor Galleries

June 22 - September 14, 2019

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A Consumer's Digest

Emily Newman

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2nd Floor Gallery

May 4 - June 15, 2019

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Silver Rod​

Joe DeLuca

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East Gallery

March 16 - June 15, 2019

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Cannonball

Aaron Holz

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2nd Floor Gallery

January 12 - April 6, 2019

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Line

Curated group exhibition exploring the multiple concepts, approaches, and materials used in contemporary drawing that includes drawings by 15 Iowa Artists

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East Gallery

January 5 - March 2, 2019

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Working to the Zone

Doug Palmer

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2nd Floor Gallery

October 6, 2018 - January 5, 2019

    

Perception of Nature

Deborah Zisko & Terry Dooley

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East Gallery

September 8 - December 15, 2018

 

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Faces of Iowa State

Rose Frantzen

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West Gallery

August 4 - October 13, 2018

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Drawing Inspiration

Drawings from the Collection 

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2nd Floor Gallery

November 20 - December 30, 2019

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“You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh." 

                                                                                                                      John Singer Sargent

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