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All We Are

Through a focus on portraits and figurative works in the collection, this exhibition spans a multiplicity of human experiences and notions of being. The work explores the complexities of identity and the way these are reflected in the depiction of the body. The diversity of perspectives in the work presented is meant to provide a ...

2024 Annual Student Exhibition

The annual Student Exhibition, a State Fair Community College tradition dating back to the late 1960s, is open to all students currently taking studio art classes at the college. Interested student-artists collaborate with art department faculty to select work that best represents them. Each year, some 50 students exhibit close to 100 artworks in a ...

Feast

Feast is an exhibition exploring the theme of food in all its flavors, textures, colors, and cultural significance. Food is a focal point through which artists can express human creativity, history, and traditions through the idea of nourishment. Consider how various cultures use food as symbols in their meals. From still life to video and ...

Daum Museum Closed for Juneteenth

The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art will be closed June 19, 2024, for Juneteenth. Normal hours of operation will continue June 20, 2024.

Consume

Consume places work from the Daum collection in dialogue with works from around the world through our concurrent juried exhibition, Feast. Utilizing food as a focal point, the works presented showcase the process of bringing food to tables, the people who make meals, and the places and objects we utilize to consume them. Some of ...

Naturally

Naturally draws from the Daum collection to explore the natural world and our relationship to it. From representations of familiar landscapes to jungle environments, we find connections and highlight differences in how we live our lives and find inspiration from nature. Ceramic sculpture, fiber,  realistic renderings of landscapes, and abstract reflections of experiences in the world serve ...

Analogous

This exhibition features ceramics by 12 artists from the Daum Collection. Three works from each artist have been selected to highlight variation while providing consistency. Explorations of form and color intersect with investigations of subject matter to offer a vivid manifestation of the power of clay to communicate abstract and concrete meaning.  This relationship is ...

Mantra: Lifespan

LIFESPAN: ART BORN IN A MOMENT AND IMMORTALIZED IN TIME The image of the elusive butterfly suggests to us the briefest lifespan, but is it? Through scientific study we know that butterflies naturally enter states of hibernation, sometimes for several years, to prolong their own existence. Most of them migrate, thousands of miles like the ...

Rebekah Bogard: You + Me =

This installation portrays love, loss, risk, and the important role of friendship.  Walking among this cloud-filled dreamscape, one questions mortality, the possibilities for life anew, and alternate realities. Through my symbolic use of animals, I incorporate existential notions about love, loss, risk, and friendship.  Questions about life, death, and mortality are imbedded in this body ...

Membership in the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art provides unique opportunities and sustains a lasting artistic legacy for future generations. Members receive exclusive invitations to exhibition previews and social events with featured artists to learn firsthand about their art and discuss art-making processes. Special discounts on museum publications and participation fees are also a benefit for members.



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Carol Fleming, United Forest, 2001