Free program featuring guest juror Amanda Burdan, associate curator at the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Ms. Burdan will speak in depth about her curation background and her process as a juror to select the participants of the 2017 DuMA Biennial Exhibition. Feel free to tour the galleries free of charge […]
Mark James, What is a Photograph... Really? Join photographer Mark James for a gallery talk coinciding with new exhibit: Remnants of the West: Photographs by Edward S. Curtis and Mark James. Talk is free and attendees are invited to tour the museum after the talk for no additional charge.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Artist Sandra Dyas will give a gallery talk on Tuesday, June 19 from 12:15-1 pm. Dyas will discuss her exhibition, Lost in the Midwest: Photographs by Sandra Dyas, on exhibition from May 26-September 9, 2018.
A Gallery Talk with Carol Sauvion Sunday, August 26th 1 PM - 2 PM 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. […]