Charity Spotlight: FIGGE Art Museum

Birdies #: 74

Location: Davenport, IA

Website: https://figgeartmuseum.org/

Mission: Bringing art and people together. We enrich our community with the experience of art through education, collections and preservation.

Impact of charity on the community: 

• The Figge brings art to the people of the Quad Cities with world-class exhibitions, classes, artist talks, performances, films and special events for audiences of all ages. 
• More than 30,000 students benefit from hands-on art lessons in their classroom through the Big Picture Outreach program, and students from 125 schools in Iowa and Illinois visit the museum each year. 
• The Figge’s permanent collection gallery is home to American, European, Spanish Viceregal, Contemporary Art works and includes one of the largest and oldest collections of Haitian art in the world.