Ready, set, create!
The 2025 Color & Contour of Music competition explores the subject of DARKNESS INTO LIGHT inspired by Beethoven’s 5th Symphony
Create an original piece of art using “Darkness into Light” as inspiration.
The DSO will be performing Beethoven’s 5th Symphony at its February 2025 concerts. Listen along as you create. You can find lots of full recordings online, but here is a great link you can use!
* Listen and interpret the music in your own way!
Artwork must be submitted to the Dubuque Museum of Art by Sunday, January 25, 2025
▶ 2 dimensional art only, on paper, canvas, or other similar flat surface. Acceptable materials include: paint (must be dry by time of delivery), crayons, pencil, pastels, mixed media, ink, etc. Photography and computer-generated art also accepted.
▶ Artwork should measure at least 8.5”x11” not to exceed 24” x 36”. Horizontal or vertical orientation accepted.
▶ Artwork can be framed or unframed
▶ One entry per person.
1 winner and up to 3 honorable mentions will be chosen per category
▶ Elementary school students (k- 5th grade)
▶ Middle and high school students (6th grade through 12th grade)
▶ College students and adults
▶ PHOTOGRAPHY (all ages)
▶ 2 tickets to the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Beethoven’s 5th: Darkness to Light (February 15-16, 2025) OR a FAMILY 4 PACK to the Spring Family Concert, a shorter program which includes an excerpt from Beethoven’s 5th as well as Really Inventive Stuff’s vaudevillian version of Peter and the Wolf, movie music from The Barbie Movie and Disney’s Encanto, and post-concert activities (1pm Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025)
▶ 1 FAMILY MEMBERSHIP to the Dubuque Museum of Art
▶ Winning art will serve as cover art for the DSO’s February 15-16 concert program book
Entry drop off dates: January 22nd-25th
Submissions should be hand delivered or mailed to the
Dubuque Museum of Art
701 Locust St, Dubuque, Iowa 52001
Open from 10am-4pm during submission window (January 22-25)
Museum may close if weather is inclement, please check ahead.
Artwork must be accompanied by an entry form. (download at link below)
Questions? Please email khoeper@dubuquesymphony.org or call the office 563.557.1677 | www.dubuquesymphony.org
