Our Museum Matinee series features free art documentary screenings in our lobby area. After the movie, attendees are invited to tour the Museum's current exhibitions without charge. On Oct 21, we are showing: Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists 2014 "In the mid-1960s, the City of Chicago was an incubator for a group of young […]
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.
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 […]
Join DuMA for a gallery walk looking at selected works from the exhibition Remnants of the West: Edward S. Curtis and Mark James, with Executive Director David Schmitz, Associate Curator and Registrar Stacy Peterson, and Director of Education, Margaret Buhr. There is no charge for this event.
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 […]
FAMOUS DEAD ARTIST LECTURE SERIES Dali, Warhol, and O'Keefe, previously featured Dead Artists 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, […]
Join us for free and family-oriented programming every second Saturday of the month at 1 PM. Second Saturdays features culturally-diverse performing arts acts and hands-on art activities that the entire family will enjoy. December will feature a screening of the 1966 animated version of the Grinch followed by an ornament making activity lead by the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Beat the winter blahs with a very special February Second Saturdays event! Three professional snow-sculpting teams will compete to see who can carve the best snow creation, including a team from Dubuque who participated in last year’s U.S. National Snow Sculpting Competition. The carving begins on Wednesday, Feb. 7, and ends at Noon on Saturday, Feb. […]