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Virtual Viewing: Wanda and Daughters by Deana Lawson
Practice the art of slow looking with these brief videos focusing on an artwork in the Des Moines Art Center's permanent collection narrated by an Art Center Docent.
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Active Voice: Contemporary Art, Storytelling, and Advocacy
This program explores identity, activism, storytelling, and aesthetics in the work of contemporary Indigenous creators.
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The Possibility of Queer Abstraction
David J. Getsy, Professor of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, discusses the ways in which some queer artists have addressed the problem of representation by pursuing abstraction.
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