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About MacNider Museum









 

Special Programs

& Calendar

The Museum's mission is to provide experience in the arts. Musical, theatrical, dance and other special programs relating to the arts are held throughout the year. Various programs offered include the annual MacNider Arts Festival and Holiday Open House, Puppet Performances, Film Series, and Kids' Club.

All events take place at the MacNider Art Museum, 303 Second Street SE, Mason City, Iowa, and most are free and open to the general public. Many are held in the Museum's Salsbury Room on the second floor.

For more information on any event offered, call the Museum at 641-421-3666.

Gasland
Films Puppet Shows Festival
 

 Calendar 2012

Charles H. MacNider Art Museum Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday: 9 am - 5 pm
Thursday: 9 am - 9 pm
Sunday - Monday and Legal Holidays: Closed

February 2012

Saturday, February 4 @ 2 pm - Film Chihuly in the Hotshop: Join the Museum in fending off winter with the heat and vibrant colors of Chihuly in the Hotshop. The film includes interviews with glass artist Dale Chihuly, photographs of his completed works, and amazing footage of glass blowing that will take your breath away. Not Rated, 90 minutes, 2007.
Note: Due to unforeseen circumstances the film, Seducing Dr. Lewis, will not be shown.

Saturday, February 11 @ 2 pm - Film Page One: Unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom yields a complex view of the transformation of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity. Rated R, 92 minutes, 2011. Sponsored by Dr. Gary Swenson and Dean Genth.                                     
                                                                                                           Monday, February 13 @ 10 am - Morning Coffee                                Is designed for retired persons and those with flexible daytime schedules to have an inside look at the MacNider, its exhibitions and other art topics. Join us for a close-up look at the work of local potters featured in the exhibition, Ceramics at the MacNider. Several of the artists themselves will be present to answer questions and tell their stories.

Thursday, February 16 @ 6:30 - 7:30 pm - Kids' Club
Please visit the Kids' Club page to learn more about this wonderful program for children ages 5 through 12!                                                                     
                                                                                                            Saturday, February 18 @ 2 pm - Film The Rape of Europa: The Rape of Europa takes the audience on a journey through seven countries telling a story of greed and warfare that threatened the artistic heritage of Europe. For twelve years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art. Young art historians and curators from America and across Europe fought back, mounting a campaign to rescue and return countless art works displaced by the war. Not Rated, 117 minutes, 2007. Sponsored by Terry MacGregor.

Saturday, February 25 @ 2 pm - Film Quinceañera: As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin. In Spanish with English Subtitles. Rated R, 90 minutes, 2006.

Saturday, February 25 @ 5 pm- Exhibition Closes in the Center Space Gallery
This is your last chance to view the American Watercolor: Exploring Watercolor in the Museum's Permanent Collection in the Center Space Gallery. Please see the exhibits page for more information about exhibitions in the MacNider Art Museum's temporary galleries.

March 2012

Saturday, March 3 @ 9 am -