Sioux City Art Center
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The Sioux City Art Center began as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project in 1937 when the Art Center Association of Sioux City, the Sioux City Junior League, as well as other community supporters, received a grant of $3,000 to create the first art center. After the Federal Assistance Program ended in 1940, the Sioux City City Council voted to fund the Art Center and established the Board of Trustees, the City’s fiscal governing board for the Art Center in 1941. It is located in Sioux City, Iowa.
[edit] Collection
The museum's permanent collection began in 1938 as part of the WPA grant. It focuses primarily on artists from Iowa and the greater Midwest, with a smaller collection of work by national and international artists that focuses on regional concerns with landscape.
The collection includes work by: Thomas Hart Benton, Dale Chihuly, John Steuart Curry, Salvador Dalí, John Henry (artist), Käthe Kollwitz, Robert Motherwell, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Paschke, Philip Pearlstein, Bridget Riley, Jerry Uelsmann, James McNeil Whistler, and Grant Wood.
[edit] Museum building
The Sioux City Art Center moved into a new museum building designed by the Chicago-based architecture firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in 1997. That year it was named Cultural Attraction of the Year by the Iowa Division of Tourism.
In 1998, it was named Arts Building Communities/Arts Organization of the Year by the Iowa Arts Council, and in 2000, the Omaha World Herald stated the new muesum's opening was one of the ten most significant Art Events of the Decade in the Midwest.
