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Inspired Conversations is an audio program revolving around major exhibitions at the Des Moines Art Center, hosted by Museum Educator Mia Buch. Inspired Conversations are unscripted gallery explorations, unfolding meeting making and the thing that...
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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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This program explores identity, activism, storytelling, and aesthetics in the work of contemporary Indigenous creators.
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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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