Join the artist for a gallery talk regarding his exhibition: OUT OF DARKNESS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY NOAH DOELY.
Noah Doely is Assistant Professor of photography at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, where he also earned a BFA in sculpture before completing and MFA in visual arts from the University of California, San Diego.
This program is free.
OUT OF DARKNESS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY NOAH DOELY is open through FEBRUARY 4, 2018, and is sponsored by Cottingham and Butler.
Join Graeme Reid, Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Museum of Wisconsin Art, for a gallery talk in conjunction with DuMA’s new exhibit: Charles Thwaites: An American Journey.
From Milwaukee’s burlesque houses to Mabel Dodge Luhan’s Pink House in Taos, Charles Thwaites quietly went about recording his surrounds with a keen eye and a rare talent. This talk will trace Thwaites’ artistic journey from a chance encounter with an artist at UW Madison in the 1920s, to being at the epicenter of New Mexico’s cultural life in the 1950s, revealing an artist completely in tune with the shifting artistic landscape in America in the middle decades of the 20th century.
Charles Thwaites: An American Journey is supported in part by Mosaic Lodge No. 125 and American Trust & Savings Bank.
Presented by Duane Hagerty, CEO, Heritage Works Dubuque
Learn about the architecture and construction methods of Dubuque’s two important brewery complexes: The Dubuque Brewing and Malting Complex (also known as the H&W Complex) and the Dubuque Star Brewery Complex.
Free. Feel free to bring a sack lunch (Lunch not provided)
This presentation will examine the use of architectural terra cotta in the construction of several of Dubuque’s iconic buildings, including The Cottingham and Butler Headquarters (former Security/Stampfers Building), the Security Building, the Fischer Building (former Bank & Insurance Building) and others.
Feel free to bring a sack lunch. (Lunch not provided) Free.
Presented by Duane Hagerty, CEO, Heritage Works Dubuque
Film screening: Everybody Knows…Elizabeth Murray (2016) 1 hour.
An intimate portrait of the groundbreaking artist Elizabeth Murray. This film explores the relationship between Murray’s family life and career, and reconsiders her place in contemporary art history. Footage of Murray in her studio, home videos, interviews with art world luminaries and Murray’s own journals round out this moving, thought-provoking profile.
NOTE: START TIME HAS BEEN CHANGED TO 1 PM INSTEAD OF 1:15 PM
One of the Museum’s most anticipated semi-annual events, the Famous Dead Artist series brings legendary artists to life through portrayals by local actors. Featured artists span the visual, performing, literary, and culinary worlds and have included Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin, Julia Child, and Leonard Bernstein, among many others.
December 3rd features Jen Hogue performing as Margaret Bourke-White.
Margaret Bourke-White was a photographer best known for her work as the first female American war photojournalist. Her photography was featured on the cover of the very first issue of the modern iteration of Life magazine in 1936, and she was the first Western photographer allowed to document the Soviet Five-Year plan. She is also known for her journalism regarding the 1930’s Dust Bowl, Nazi Germany, life under Communism in the Soviet Union, and recording the India–Pakistan partition violence in the 1940’s.
Previous Dead Artist Series performances are available to watch online by following this link.
Lunch & Learn at the Key City Creative Center
Learn about the Steeple Square stained glass project. Program concludes with a tour of Key City Creative Center. FREE admission.
Key City Creative Center located at 18th and Central Ave.
In conjunction with the exhibition Razzle-Dazzle: World War I Camouflage Ephemera, collection owner Roy Behrens will speak about the little known use of designers, architects and artists (including Iowan Grant Wood) as army, navy, and civilian camouflage experts (called camoufleurs) during World Wars I and II.
A noted scholar on the aesthetics and history of camouflage, Behrens is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles on the subject and has been described by Communication Arts magazine as “one of the most original thinkers in design.” His most recent book is Frank Lloyd Wright and Mason City: Architectural Heart of the Prairie.
This program is free. Attendees are invited to tour the Museum’s current exhibitions after the talk for no charge.
Sponsored by Humanities Iowa
Ron Tigges, president of the Dubuque Camera Club, will discuss and show amazing in-camera techniques of creative photography, as seen in the featured exhibition, Dimensions of Photography, on view until October 29th. Our “Lunch and Learn” series of educational art-related programming are always free. Lunch is not provided, but you may bring in a brown bag lunch to eat during the presentation.
Join DuMA for Time Capsules: Photography and Anachronism, a lecture by photography historian and curator George Slade focusing on the Museum’s current exhibit Remnants of the West: Edward S. Curtis and Mark James.
Both Edward Curtis and Mark James use their photographic skills to transport us into other times and spaces. How do their images reflect photography’s unique capacity to represent history? This lecture will explore the question specifically in regards to Curtis and James, and more broadly as a phenomenon singular to the medium.
Lecture is free. Attendees are invited to tour the museum galleries and exhibit Remnants of the West after the talk at no charge.