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The Rahr-West Art Museum is proud to present 2025’s Art of Tablesettings exhibit and programming. This year is the 51st year of the exhibit and will bring over forty innovative tablescapes inspired by works of visual art.
To honor the 75th Anniversary of the Rahr-West Art Museum, we offered a special challenge to this year’s table designers: design a setting for the widest painting in our collection, Paul Jenkin’s Phenomena: Saturn Ascent. At over 13 feet wide, this painting is not usually available to designers due to each designer having only 6 feet to work with. Despite its size, Mrs. West created a table design with the painting in 1980, with a disco theme. Four designers took up the challenge, and we will see how their creations capture a variety of interpretations of Jenkins’s piece.
Related Programming
Exhibit Dates
October 3—November 2, 2025
Art of Conversation with Dolly Stokes
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025 at 2:00pm
Dolly Stokes has been involved in the Rahr-West Art Museum for many decades and will speak to her personal history with the Museum as part of the Art of Table setting exhibit and our 75th Anniversary Celebration.
Drop-in Tour
Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025, 2:00pm.
Join Curator Diana Bolander and a selection of this year’s designers to learn the stories behind this year’s installations.
Silent Auction for Table Treasures
October 3 – 26, 2024
A silent auction of tableware and décor will be set up to raise money for future exhibitions.
The exhibit and programming are free and open to the public. Find hours and visitor information at rahrwestartmuseum.org. The Rahr-West Art Museum is a department of the City of Manitowoc.
Contact
Diana Bolander, Curator/Assistant Director, 920-686-3092, dbolander@manitowoc.org