DuMA is proud to host the 25th year of this highly anticipated and celebrated exhibition.

Brightening the grey winter days with youthful creativity, the citywide K–8 exhibition features two and three-dimensional artwork by elementary and middle school students, chosen by their teachers. Installed by art students from Dubuque Senior High School.

Dubuque artist E. E. Kono returns to DuMA for a solo exhibition of paintings made with traditional techniques like egg tempera and silverpoint to explore history, myth, and legend. Kono is inspired by the Driftless Area. For her, the region is defined by a river that links the land to the sea and the complex past to a shifting present.

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A companion exhibition that reveals the story of the Dubuquers who helped shape the Major Leagues.

The 51 photographs in this exhibition cover a period from 1866 to 2012 and reflect some of the most memorable moments not only in baseball but in American history.

This fall, the Showcase program features work by students from the University of Dubuque’s Department of Digital Art and Design (DART), on display in the Museum lobby.

Sixty-five photographs by Camera Club members are now on view, showcasing a range of perspectives on life on the land around Dubuque and the Midwest.

Combining concept with a dedication to craft, Schutte unites paper, paint, and fiber at DuMA to examine our relationship with our memories and the world around us.

This fall, the works of Roberta Condon and Lorraine Ortner-Blake together evoke the stories, memories, shapes, and colors of Midwestern farm life, both past and present, in the joint exhibition Long Time Passing.

Photographer Rachel Deutmeyer found that you can’t go home again—but that inaccessibility became a route to this powerful visual meditation on loss, change, and memory.

Deutmeyer, an assistant professor of photography at Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City, Tennessee, had originally set out to explore the small town in Dubuque County where she was raised, but she found she was unable to access the center of her memories: her childhood home. This absence rendered her familiar surroundings foreign, and the house became, in her project, a symbol of what we lose in the passage from youth to adulthood.

The 15 works on view momentarily suspend a landscape in constant change. Spring buds, shadows, sunlight, butterflies, and multiple exposures of the exteriors of houses photographed across the Midwest become reflections of not only the inexorable passage of time but the wavering quality of memory itself. “I edited and sequenced the images to construct a narrative that references a bygone time in my own life,” she wrote, “but they also address collective ideas of home, family, and loss,” a sentiment that turns this highly personal project into a universal one.

Deutmeyer’s work was first exhibited at DuMA in the 2019 Biennial, making Everything Fades both a homecoming and an evolution. “Change is often slow and unnoticed until it suddenly feels permanent and inevitable,” she reflected. “I found beauty in things that were changing, as we are all changing.”

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Image credit: Rachel Deutmeyer, Trusting Aspiration, Spring 2023, 2023, Inkjet print on paper, 20×24 in., courtesy of the artist.