UPDATE: Available space for the Artist Conversation at the McCarthy Center portion of the event has SOLD OUT. Please join us via ZOOM. You are still welcome to attend the 2:30 PM opening Celebration at the Museum.
[SOLD OUT]1:30 pm Artist Conversation between Jill Wells and Ricki King at the McCarthy Center for Nonprofit Learning, 700 Locust Street (enter the Roshek building on Locust). Join via ZOOM
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthdate, Ricki King of Roots to Branches Genealogy will join Des Moines artist Jill Wells for a conversation about her work, family story, and the Great Migration.
2:30-4 pm Celebration
Explore Wells’ immersive work in DuMA’s lobby and enjoy food from Frannie’s Barbeque and music by Iowa Music Award 2022 fan favorite, DJ Nita Beat.
Sponsored by GreenState Credit Union and John Deere Dubuque Works
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 our daily lives.
Topics include: Craft vs. Art, the ecology of traditional ways of fabrication, the intersection of craft with the sciences, and the importance of play.
Following the conversation Douglas Ewart will discuss his multidisciplinary work which weaves together music, art making, and performance.
Artist Andonia Giannakouros will discuss her large-format paintings featured in the exhibition
Chronicle, on display at DuMA from February 26 – June 12.
Following the 10:30 AM gallery talk Andonia will lead a 60 minute workshop that explores the idea of how one’s collections can be viewed as a self-portrait. Working with pencil, pens, crayons, or markers, participants will transform 3-dimensional collected objects into 2-dimensional drawings. Please bring a collected object that is meaningful to you.
The workshop is free, but registration is required. Limit 12 participants. For more information and to register, please contact Margi Buhr at
mbuhr@dbqart.org.
For teenagers and adults. Registration deadline: 3/3/22
(Art credit: Andonia Giannakouros, Boy with Apple (detail), 2021, oil and wax on panel, 41 x 48 in., courtesy of the artist.)
FREE with regular admission.
As part of the Vietnam: The Real War Opening Reception, Veteran Navy combat photographer Ron Testa will discuss his three tours of duty aboard the USS Ticonderoga and the selection of his images on view in the Museum’s galleries.
Dubuque Camera Club members Bob Felderman, Ronald Tigges, and Stephonie Schmitz will present a program about war photography and the use of the camera from the Civil War through the Vietnam War—the era when the Rolleiflex, 35mm, Leica, Nikon, and Canon cameras were introduced.
Join us for an in person guided conversation between Biennial artists Louise Kames, Daniel O’Brien and Katie Schutte in the Falb Gallery.
See links below for more info on each of the artists.
DuMA will stay open late with local artist Tim Olson Friday, June 4th. Stop by to meet the artist and enjoy light refreshments with a cash bar.
Our current exhibitions close the following week, so don’t miss your chance to view them in person.
Regular admission rates apply. Museum members are invited to attend free of charge.
The Dubuque Museum of Art, in partnership with Voices Productions and with additional support by Trappist Caskets and Humanities Iowa, is hosting a temporary exhibition of Dana Harrison’s I Am A Man mural at the corner of Bluff Street and 8th Street in downtown Dubuque.
The Museum will host a free community conversation in Washington Park on Sunday, April 11 at 1:00 pm between the artist and Museum Curator, Stacy Gage Peterson. The rain date is April 18.
Attendees can purchase lunch from the Happi Hibachi food truck, which will be at the park before & during the event.
Painting, weather permitted, will begin Saturday, April 10.
