Carole Spelic invites you to drop in and try your hand at weaving on a 4 harness loom. See how using different yarns and changing the "treadling" can make unique fabrics. Warning: weaving can be addictive!
Elizabeth Johanna will guide you through the process of making paper. Learn how to make paper pulp using a kitchen blender and recycled paper. See demos of pulling sheets of paper as well as using cut metal screens and squeeze bottles to create images on the paper sheets.
Volumes have been written about art with discussions of craft reserved as an afterthought. Art history’s use of painting as the standard classification left three-dimensional works, such as crafts and ceramics, fighting for their rightful place with the same status as the painted image. Fariello’s talk challenges today’s art world vision and is sure to […]
Mixed media artist Lorraine Reynolds will be harvesting art materials next to her work in the gallery. She will show the process of dissembling garments and making them into the balls that form the exhibition. Lorraine will provide scissors for those who want to join in the harvesting. Learn more about the artist
Calling all nature loving photographers! Randy Richmond, whose photographs are featured in the current exhibition, Subtext and Overstory: Still-life Photography by Randy Richmond, will guide participants in creating a still life photograph from personal objects and natural materials gathered from the Interpretive Center. Discussion will focus on how to develop a personal visual vocabulary as […]
Join us for a spirited conversation moderated by artist Douglas Ewart featuring Craft Invitational curatorial committee members, Delores Fortuna and Don Friedlich, and exhibiting artist, Kee-Ho Yuen. The “reasoning” as Ewart calls it, will be a forum to exchange ideas, knowledge and concepts while exploring the role of craft in the art world and in […]
Mark your calendar for the 2022 Illuminations Dubuque Museum of Art Gala! Save the date to join us for a stellar party in the park celebrating the historic mission and vivid future of DuMA. Click here for more information
Friday, October 21 4 PM: Correspondences Gallery Talk 5 PM: Intimate Exchange Gallery Talk 6–9 PM: Opening Celebration $20 for members ($8 Under 21 ) $25 general admission ($10 Under 21) Free for 1874 Society members Celebrate new exhibitions and the women who inspire us. Join artists Mary Bergs and Lisa Hochstein inside their collaborative […]
Shaking the Family Tree Trace your roots without getting tangled up in the process. Join us for a genealogy-packed lunch and learn series that will help you begin your ancestry search as well as examine lesser-known tales of Dubuque’s past. October 26, November 2, and November 9 from 12:15–1 PM. Free for members Museum admission […]
Ricki King of Roots to Branches Genealogy and City of Dubuque assistant planner Chris Happ Olson will discuss what they have discovered in their work on Dubuque’s Black Heritage Survey. This program is the final in a series of free lunchtime programs about genealogy and Dubuque history related to Intimate Exchange: Wendy S. Rolfe and […]