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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 –...
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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...
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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...
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On February 11, 2024 at the Des Moines Art Center, “States of Becoming” curator Fitsum Shebeshe provided insight into the premise of the exhibition and introduced the work of 17 African artists working in the...
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During this Artist Lecture + Conversation, Ange Altenhofen and T. J. Dedeaux-Norris, two of the artists featured in the 2023 Des Moines Art Center exhibition “Transform Any Room,” introduced their work through a brief slide...
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During the 33rd edition of the Des Moines Art Center’s Fingerman Lecture, artist Hank Willis Thomas was interviewed by Dr. Kelly Baum, John and Mary Pappajohn Director. The conversation largely focused on Thomas’ public art...
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