Twelve luminous pastel portraits by emerging Dubuque artist, Heather O’Neil, were on view in the Museum’s McNamer Gallery. O’Neil is originally from Dubuque, graduating from Hempstead High School in 1994. She worked as a commissioned portrait artist while living in Lake George, New York and spent time on two humanitarian missions to Africa, which inspired her Congo series of portraits. She and her husband now reside in Dubuque.

Image: Heather O’Neil, Congo Boy II, 2011, soft pastel on paper, 38 ½ x 27 in., collection of the artist