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.

Welcome to the tenth edition of the DuMA Biennial, an exhibition founded in 2003 as a competitive, open-call opportunity for established and emerging artists in the heart of the Midwest.

The ethos of the Biennial is to reflect a moment in time, celebrate regional talent, and continue to build an artistic community. The selected works this year were chosen by juror Pamela Caserta Hugdahl (Executive Director of the Rochester Art Center) from a wide field of over 500 submissions. Hugdahl has assembled a survey that reflects the prominent styles, themes, and range of media she found. The exhibition features contemporary painting, sculpture, furniture, photography and more.

Through the works on view, digital content, and programs, the DuMA Biennial explores how the enormous changes in our social, cultural, and political environment emerge in the art created today by the artists among us.

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Image credit: Priscilla Steele, Magnum Amaryllis, 2022, mixed media on paper, 52.5×27.5 in., courtesy of the artist.

Featuring student work from Dubuque Senior High school, Hempstead High school, Wahlert Catholic High school, and alternative learning center program.

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