Amy N. Worthen Lecture
Recorded on June 1, 2025 at the Des Moines Art Center. This lecture was led by Amy N. Worthen, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Emerita, Des Moines Art Center. The talk was inspired by the...
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Des Moines Art Center NEWS: January to April 2025
I am launching myself into 2025 with a renewed sense of purpose, ever more confident in the necessity and importance of the Des Moines Art Center. We accomplished a great deal in 2024. Many of...
Samantha Box in Conversation with Luke Williams
Recorded on December 15, 2024 at the Des Moines Art Center. Luke Williams is a scholar, artist, organizer, and critic of 20th and 21st century Black performance and visual cultures. His work, which spans embodiment,...
Des Moines Art Center NEWS: September to December 2024
I have always found the end of summer and the beginning of fall to be a particularly bittersweet time of the year. It is a moment of transition, as the weather begins to change and...
Panel Discussion Featuring b. Robert Moore, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and Jordan Weber
Iowa’s 2023 census data cites that of the 3,207,004 people in the state, 84.4% or 2,702,598 of the population are white. Growing up in a state with such low rates of racial diversity is an...
Artist Lecture: b. Robert Moore “Art should be felt, not just seen” + SEEDS ballet performance
Des Moines Art Center’s 2024 Iowa Artist, b. Robert Moore delivers a lecture, “Art should be felt, not just seen,” filled with intimate details about his solo exhibition “In Loving Memory.” The event begins with...
Whispers of Guabancex, A Shamanic Dance of Healing and Release by N’Jelle Gage Thorne
Performed in the Des Moines Art Center’s exhibition “Hurricane Season: Caribbean Art + Climate Change” on July 11 and 12, 2024. About the Artist: Inspired by the poetry of Celia Sorhaindo, N’Jelle Gage Thorne embodies...
Artist Lecture: Teresita Fernández: “From the Subterranean to the Cosmos”
Teresita Fernández delivered the 34th installment of the Fingerman Lecture at the Des Moines Art Center on June 6, 2024 in concert with the exhibition “Hurricane Season: Caribbean Art and Climate Change” (June 8 –...
Des Moines Art Center NEWS: May to August 2024
I’m recently back from an exhilarating trip to New York with sixteen of our trustees, members, and guests. We were thrilled to see our masterpiece “Woman in White” (1946), by Henri Matisse, on view in...
“Reconfiguring the Canon: Instructions for a White Cube” by Helina Metaferia
Watch as Helina Metaferia performs a newly commissioned live work from her Refiguring the Canon series. In this series, Metaferia transforms history into mythology, and interrogates its emphasis on western male exceptionalism. Transforming iconic abstract...