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Visiting the Art Museum With Your Students
We are excited to have your classroom here at the Des Moines Art Center. There is no place quite like an art museum to inspire creativity and wonder, and visiting here can be a fun...
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Visiting the Art Museum With Your Family
There are many reasons to bring children to the Des Moines Art Center. All kids can love art museums – from toddlers learning language, and children with differing sensory sensitivities and communication abilities, to teenagers...
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Artist Panel Discussion: Who Owns Images?
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...
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Pressing Commitments: Women Printmakers and the Modern Family
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...
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Tour with Your Eyes
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...
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Exploring Art and Audience: Music, Dance, and Moving Images
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...
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IMMERSIVE Exhibition
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...
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A Place for Curiosity
Have you ever wondered what an artist was thinking about when they created a work of art? Have you wondered about where they might be from or even how old they are? Have you ever...
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Artist on Art: Chitra Ganesh on Leonor Fini’s “La Gardienne des Phoenix”
Former Associate Curator Jared Ledesma was struck by visual and thematic parallels between Chitra Ganesh’s work Urgency (2020) and a long-term loan to the Art Center, Leonor Fini’s La Gardienne des Phoenix (1952) and invited...
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Virtual Gallery Talk: Manos
Former Art Center Associate Curator Jared Ledesma reviews many the exhibition Manos: Selections of Latin American Art from the Des Moines Art Center’s Collection as well as a new addition to the collection, Hermano y...
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