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Past Exhibitions

Danish Ceramics Beyond Blue and White pottery
Danish Ceramics: Beyond Blue and White
November 16, 2024 – April 20, 2026
The Art of the Danish Book
August 15, 2025 – February 2, 2026
Dwight Lamb
Dwight Lamb | Music of Two Continents
March 15, 2025 – December 8, 2025
Greenland: Shared History, Evolving Future
March 14, 2025 – November 14, 2025
Lay Of(f) the Land: Nordic Narratives
April 10, 2025 – July 31, 2025
Per Arnoldi | Advertising Art
October 31, 2024 – March 31, 2025
Nature-Culture / Natur-Kultur
June 22, 2023 – November 4, 2024
Nature as Sovereign: Paintings and Sculpture by Inger Nova Jorgensen
May 24, 2024 – October 21, 2024
Fabric of a Nation: Art Quilts and Immigration Stories
November 24, 2023 – May 10, 2024
40 Years of Collecting: Highlights from the Permanent Collection
November 25, 2022 – October 31, 2023
In Search of Zion: The Danish-American Mormon Movement
January 1, 2022 – June 4, 2023
Joyce Tenneson's Great Danes
November 25, 2022 – June 2, 2023
Roger Nielsen: Celebrating My Heritage
June 25, 2022 – November 6, 2022
Tattoo: Identity Through Ink
May 6, 2022 – September 5, 2022
Brushes, Lenses, Fabric & Steel: Two Generations of Art
June 26, 2021 – September 5, 2022
Tradition and Change: Weddings in Danish America
May 28, 2021 – December 31, 2021
The Victor Borge Legacy Award: Celebrating 10 Years of Music
March 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021
Snapshots: Traveling with the Poet Hans Christian Andersen
June 1, 2020 – June 6, 2021
Papirklip: A Global and Timeless Art
January 20, 2021 – May 20, 2021
Migrant
February 21, 2020 – May 2, 2021
Art Nouveau Innovation: Danish Porcelain from an American Collector
October 2, 2020 – January 3, 2021
Kings, Queens, and Commoners: Portraits from the Permanent Collection
September 21, 2019 – May 31, 2020
A concert with three singers, red confetti is flying around, a Danish flag is in the background of the stage.
Dannebrog 800
January 7, 2019 – February 3, 2020
New Nordic Cuisine
June 22, 2019 – January 5, 2020
A blue gray vase with cup-like protrusions.
Vessel: Ceramic Art by Michael Geertsen and Morten Løbner Espersen
March 22, 2019 – September 2, 2019
An old photography, on the left is a stove with several things stacked on and around it, in the back and to the right are several men with blankets.
Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives
April 6, 2019 – May 27, 2019
A man on a horse is shaking hands with another man on foot, behind are several men on bicycles following the man on the horse.
Denmark, October 1943: Occupation and Resistance
September 29, 2018 – March 24, 2019
A rock cairn, a small rock has a big rock balancing on it, and on top of the big rock are several smaller flat rocks that are balancing on top of each other. Behind is a blue lake and sky
Balancing Act - Peter Juhl
June 23, 2018 – March 17, 2019
A paper cut figure, the figure has a hat its hands raised, besides it are mushrooms.
The Sound of Scissors: Paper Characters by Torben Clausen
July 2, 2018 – December 28, 2018
Two men are walking on a lawn, they are both wearing suits, behind them are the Danish and American flags hanging.
Denmark: America's Smallest and Biggest Ally
September 30, 2017 – September 3, 2018
Painting of a family in a horse drawn carriage. The father and mother are in the front, and the mother has a toddler in her arms. There are a young boy and two younger girls in the back, as well as a dog. They are facing away from the viewer and toward the town in the distance, snow on the ground. The town features several buildings and a large white church.
Home-Grown Art
November 24, 2017 – June 10, 2018
Old man with white hair and glasses, he is holding a violin.
Watercolors by Betty Pedersen Bell
July 3, 2017 – May 5, 2018
Yellow painting with different colors layered on top creating human shapes.
Nordic Light: Paintings by Hanne Støvring
June 24, 2017 – October 31, 2017
Ten women are in the center, nine of them are wearing a gymnast uniform consisting of a skirt and long sleeved top.
Sport for Sports' Sake: Athletes and Ethnicity in Danish America
April 23, 2016 – September 4, 2017
Plaque with a man picking apples and a woman gathering the apples in her dress are drawn in black,
The Whimsical World of Bjørn Wiinblad
November 25, 2016 – May 30, 2017
A snow covered ground with many footsteps two people are to the left, in the background is Saint Basil's Cathedral
Brimberg Photographs for National Geographic (1990 – 2002)
May 13, 2016 – December 30, 2016
Painting with an orange border, the middle has a red rectangle with a blue rectangle at the top portion, the rectangles and border have an aray of items painted, vases, flowers, birds, all are a nuance of orange, red, or blue.
Art by Gert Mathiesen
May 21, 2016 – October 31, 2016
A wooden plank hangs on a wall with 3 white blocks shaped as houses imbedded within the wood.
Home: Sculpture by Dennis Andersen
October 22, 2015 – May 8, 2016
A band sits on a horse drawn wagon, the wagon is decorated with stars and stripes banners.
Happy Danes on the Plains
November 27, 2015 – April 10, 2016
A painting several people are standing with glasses raised to a toast, by a table, there is greenery around the people.
Skål! Scandinavian Spirits
April 24, 2015 – October 25, 2015
Mosaic with yellow and orange filling out the bottom and middle vertical portion of the mosaic, blue then encases it from the upper left and right corner.
Glass and Mosaics by Helle Scharling-Todd
March 23, 2015 – September 30, 2015
Painting depicting a farmer harvesting wheat, hilly heath surrounds the field, in the background other fields and water is seen.
Curator's Choice: Art from the Permanent Collection
March 28, 2015 – May 10, 2015
A girl sitting on a chair, she is in a white dress and holding flowers
Danish Children Growing Up American
September 27, 2014 – April 4, 2015
Two women both with sunglasses on are sitting at a table
Photography by Diana Velasco: Two Nationalities
November 28, 2014 – March 15, 2015
A vase with a nude woman as the motif
Nude Vases, Cubist Faces: Modernism at Rookwood Pottery
April 26, 2014 – November 9, 2014
A poster with the years 1864 and 1920 at the top, in the middle are to women in a wheatfield, at the bottom an illustration of 3 adults and a child by a bridge.
Schleswig-Holstein: Turmoil on the Danish-German Border
February 22, 2014 – September 1, 2014
A drawing of a young man with curly hair.
Søren Kierkegaard: The Global Dane
February 1, 2014 – April 13, 2014
Two chairs one is all black, the other is light wood and a dark seat.
Danish Modern: Design for Living
April 6, 2013 – January 5, 2014
A painting of a man, sitting cross-legged He is wearing overalls and has a brown cap in his hand.
Danish American Artist Series Presents: Meeting my Makers: Portraits by Neoma Thomas
July 21, 2012 – March 10, 2013
a man with a white shirt, white hair, and a moustache
Jens Jensen: Celebrating The Native Prairie
March 24, 2012 – March 3, 2013
A painting with 3 circles. The circles overlap each other slightly. Top and bottom circles are orange, the middle is unfilled and only shown by a brown-red line. Yellow or orange rectangles are on the edges of the canvas.
Danish American Artist Series Presents: Mia Furlong - Artist with a Danish Spirit
January 21, 2012 – July 8, 2012
A wall with five photographs of different people.
Faces of Copenhagen: Photographs by Itzick Lev
November 25, 2011 – February 25, 2012
Two silver overcoat buttons with a thistle as motive.
Danish American Artist Series Presents: Silverwork of Yngve Olsson
August 6, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Black and white photo postcard of Elim Orphanage in Elk Horn, IA. Building is white with a dark roof.
Church Basements and Children's Homes: Danish-American Missions Here and Abroad
April 16, 2011 – October 31, 2011
Silk painting, lines of blue and brown alternate vertically
Danish American Artist Series Presents: Grete Schioler
February 1, 2011 – July 10, 2011
Squares in shades of yellow, orange, and blue are in the background. Layered on top is a branching, coral-like design.
Danish American Artist Series Presents: Paul Solevad
July 24, 2010 – January 2, 2011