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11 APRIL 19- MAY 2
The Heartland Festival at the University of Wisconsin – Platteville has announced that events for the 2007 season are now on sale. Productions for this season include Nunsense II, Greater Tuna, Seussical and Sound of Music. The Festival performances begin on June 15 and continue until July 29 in a rotating schedule. Check the Festival website at www.uwplatt. edu/arts/heartland or call 608-342-1298 for exact dates and times. Select dates offer dinner theatre options.
This season also marks the debut of the UWP Box Office online box office. Tickets may be purchased at http://tickets.uwplatt.edu.
series Inside the Actor’s Studio with James Lipton, the Famous Dead Artists will be interviewed by Museum Director Ed Ritts. Each program will be an hour long, followed by a short reception. The series is funded by a City of Dubuque Arts and Cultural Grant.
Famous Dead Artist Lecture Series Dubuque Museum of Art The Dubuque Museum of Art is continuing its Famous Dead Artist Lecture Series, where costumed actors will play the deceased painters in three separate installments. Artists to be featured in the series include Georgia O’Keefe, Salvador Dali, and Andy Warhol. Modeled after the Bravo television
The second installment will feature surrealist painter Salvador Dali, played by Kevin Firnstahl of Fly by Night Productions, and is scheduled for Thursday, April 26, at 7 p.m. The final installment, not yet scheduled, will feature pop artist Andy Warhol played by Dan Fairchild, also of Fly by Night Productions. The series will be produced by Patrick Sterenchuk, with research by Margaret Buhr, the museum’s director of education. The show is recommended for adults. Admission is free to Museum members, $3 for students and senior citizens, and $5 for adults. The Dubuque Museum of Art is located at 701 Locust Street. For more information, visit www.dbqart.com, or call the Museum of Art at 563-557-1851.
Joseph Walter: The Christensen Collection Dubuque Museum of Art May 1 – November 4
The Dubuque Museum of Art will exhibit a collection of watercolors by Austrianborn artist Joseph Walter. The exhibit will be on display from May 1 through November 4, 2007. The opening reception for the exhibit is scheduled for Friday, June 14, from 5:30 - 7:30p.m. The collection was donated in 2005. Walter (1865-1946) came to Dubuque around 1890. Settling in what was the only house on Carroll Street at the time, he lived out the rest of his life there, painting scenes in watercolor of the city below and of various views of the small communities of the area. The Christensen
Collection, eight paintings in total, was donated to the Museum of Art in 2005 by James and Marcia Christensen of Southern California. Mr. Christensen’s mother, Gladys (Roberts) Christensen received the paintings from her sister, Lillian Roberts, a good friend of Joseph Walter’s daughter, Marie. Gladys and her husband Stanley lived in Dubuque until they moved to California in the 1930s. Joseph Walter: The Christensen Collection will be display in the Dubuque Museum of Art’s Lengeling Gallery until November 4, 2007. For more information, visit www.dbqart.com, or call the Museum of Art at 563-557-1851.