Simple moments of connection can impact us forever. VIEW COMMUNITY SHOWCASE If you would like to share your tender memories, embraces, and snapshots of physical connection to be featured in the online Hold Me...
What makes a work of art any different than the thousands of images that enter our homes every day? Photographs, photocopies, prints, the internet, television, and cell phones; in a world of endless and easy...
Join Museum Educator Mia Buch and guests Madison Kim-Poppen (midwestern photographer) and Lenore Metrick-Chen (Associate Professor of Art and Cultural History at Drake University), as they explore the Des Moines Art Center’s exhibition Images Unbound....
Print Club hosted a public lecture by curator Elizabeth G. Seaton (Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University) to consider how female artists active in the mid-twentieth century used printmaking to negotiate family...
Throughout the galleries of the Des Moines Art Center, you will find endless inspiration in the form of artful objects on view and the contemporary ideas surrounding them. Recently, a new group of inspired works...
Art museums are amazing places filled with fascinating things! It is true that art museums are not a place for touching, running, or climbing. However, even though we cannot touch the art, we can explore...
Discover how three artists from different disciplines are motivated by redefining the relationship between the work and the viewer. Panelists: Beau Kenyon Composer-in-Residence, Ballet Des Moines; Faculty, College of Arts, Media + Design at Northeastern...
Immersive runs through Sunday, June 5 in the Anna K. Meredith and Pamela Bass-Bookey and Harry Bookey Gallery. This multi-part experiential exhibition invites visitors to be literally immersed in artworks from the permanent collection and...
The Looking Together interactive guide is a fun way to encourage engagement in the galleries. The prompts provided help you and your gallery partners look more closely, think differently, and find new artworks in the...
Use this photo guide and prompts to uncover some remarkable architectural features within the museum. When you find a feature, submit a response. get started