Museum Name: Blanden Memorial Art Museum
Schedule: Tuesday through Saturday, 11AM to 5 PM
Established: 1932
Address: 920 Third Avenue South Ft. Dodge, LA
Phone Number: 515-573-2316
Fax Number: 515-573-2317
Email: arteducator@blanden.org
Director: Margaret Skove
Website: www.blanden.org
Focus: Collection, presentation, interpretation, and exhibition of visual works of art
Ages: All
Costs: Admission is Free
Class Trip Programs: Docent led tours
Class Trip Pricing: Free Admission for docent led tours. Art project activities are available upon request for a per-person fee
Notes: The Innovative and Imaginative Cultures exhibition includes pieces in the study collection that can be examined hands-on during tours. If you have inquiries about hands-on classroom activities, direct your questions to the museum educator with a call to the museum

Permanent Collection includes work by Marc Chagall, Max Beckmann, Dale Chihuly, Marino Marini, Matta, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, Rufino Tamayo, Maurice Prendergast and many others, shown on a rotating basis.

Immaginative and Innovative Cultures: Africa, Asia and the Americas.

Prints and Photography Exhibitions from the permanent collection - selected works rotate throughout the year.

Also included are temporary exhibits on loan directly from the artist, other institutions, or both.

Main Floor Galleries
From Cassatt to Wyeth - collection on loan - opened April 6 - closed August 15, 2007

The Compass of Desire: Paintings by R. Brown Lethem - On loan - opened July 13th - closes October 20, 2007

Shroud No. 1 & Shroud No. 2 by Deanna Leamon - temporary loan August through December 2007

Kate Javens: American Beasts - November 2, 2007 through February 16, 2008.

Thatcher Retrospective - March 7 through May 24, 2008

Permanent Collection Masterpieces - March 6, 2008 through March 7, 2009

Second Floor Gallery
Innovative & Imaginative Cultures: Africa, Asia and the Americas - throughout the year

Prints from the Harold D. Peterson collection. January through June 2008

Photographs by Michael A. Smith - June through December 2008