DuMA Holiday 2024 Hours: Closed December 25th and January 1st.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In Iowa: A Message for Today
A history about the October 1962 Iowa visit told from the perspectives of a family that greeted Dr. King upon his arrival, the President of Coe College, and the minister at Cornell College and excerpts from the lecture/sermon Dr. King presented.
Part of the Dubuque Chapter NAACP Speakers Bureau Lunch & Learn Series. Free free to bring a sack lunch, however lunch will not be provided by the Museum.
A discussion of Dubuque’s architecture through the lens of holiday celebrations and the decoration of buildings, streets and related print advertising
Presented by Duane Hagerty, CEO, Heritage Works Dubuque
Free. Feel free to bring a sack lunch (Lunch not provided)
Carol Sauvion, creator and producer/director of the award-winning PBS series “Craft in America”, will present a lecture in conjunction with the exhibition “Handmade Craft Invitational.” Ms. Sauvion has operated Freehand, a Los Angeles gallery specializing in functional craft, for 37 years.
The exhibition: “Handmade Craft Invitational” continues through September 9, 2018.
Free Admission
Held in conjunction with the exhibition: Handmade Craft Invitational, DuMA will feature a series of artist demos on selected weekends. No registration is required.
Saturday, June 23, 1-3 PM
Sam Schold. cigar box guitars
Saturday, June 30, 1-3 PM
Paul Eshelman, slipstone pottery
Saturday, July 14th, 1-3 PM
Paul Opperman, boot making
Saturday, August 18th, 1-3 PM
Patricia Lehnhardt, book making
Join us at DuMA for a demonstration of boot making with Artist Paul Opperman.
Making a great fitting, stylish pair of boots takes all the skills of drawing, pattern making, sewing, and sculpting the lasts and heels to make a finished boot.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition: Handmade Craft Invitational, DuMA will feature a series of artist demos on selected weekends. No registration is required.
Saturday, June 23, 1-3 PM
Sam Schold. cigar box guitars
Saturday, June 30, 1-3 PM
Paul Eshelman, slipstone pottery
Saturday, July 14th, 1-3 PM
Paul Opperman, boot making
Saturday, August 18th, 1-3 PM
Patricia Lehnhardt, book making
Join us at DuMA for a demonstration of book making with Artist Patricia Lehnhardt.
Patricia will be sewing a book with coptic binding and explaining the process of dyeing and printing fabrics and paper with natural dyes and leaves, and the process of making paper from mulberry bark, grasses, flax, and recycling paper scraps with botanical inclusions.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition: Handmade Craft Invitational, DuMA will feature a series of artist demos on selected weekends. No registration is required.
Join us at DuMA for a demonstration of the creation of slipcast stoneware with Artist Paul Eshelman.
The clay vessels of Eshelman pottery order and dignify human life. Clarity is given to simple forms by contrasting glazed and unglazed surfaces. Pure clean glazes render elegant presentation of food and drink.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition: Handmade Craft Invitational, DuMA will feature a series of artist demos on selected weekends. No registration is required.
Saturday, June 23, 1-3 PM
Sam Schold. cigar box guitars
Saturday, June 30, 1-3 PM
Paul Eshelman, slipstone pottery
Saturday, July 14th, 1-3 PM
Paul Opperman, boot making
Saturday, August 18th, 1-3 PM
Patricia Lehnhardt, book making
French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850 – 1950, an exhibition organized by the Brooklyn Museum, will be on view at the Figge Art Museum from October 6, 2018 to January 7, 2019. Featuring 59 paintings and sculptures, the exhibition begins with the academic painters of the 19th century, such as Gerôme and Bouguereau, then moves on to artists who turned to nature for their inspiration, such as Corot, Millet and Boudin. It features works by all the leading Impressionists—Monet, Cezanne, Renoir and Manet–and some lesser colleagues, such as Morisot, Sisley and Caillebotte, as well as artists from England, Italy and Germany who aligned themselves with the movement. Also included are iconic sculptural works by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Their successors, such as Matisse, Bonnard and Chagall, pioneered new approaches to image-making, as did artists from elsewhere in Europe, such as Gabrielle Münter and Chaim Soutine, all included in the exhibition.
Get ready for the exciting exhibition! This 45-minute art talk offers an introduction to the traveling exhibition, with background on some of the artists and their styles.
For information: Margaret Buhr, Director of Education, at 563 557 1851 or mbuhr@dbqart.org
Free showing of: The 100 Years Show Starring Carmen Herrera (2015) 40 minutes
Carmen Herrera is one of the oldest working artists today. She was a pioneering abstract painter in the ’40s and ’50s, but only recently found the recognition that eluded her for most of her career, as she approaches her 100th birthday. In the lobby.
Doug Donald will play Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.
Recent performances have been Standing Room Only. Come early to secure a seat! Doors open at 12:45 pm
View recordings of previous Dead Artist performances Here!