After a frenetic and productive summer, the Art Center is gearing up for an adventurous and busy fall. Justin Favela’s exhibition, Central American, continues to enthrall visitors with his take on the traditional Mexican piñata, artworks in our permanent collection, as well as Iowa’s own taco pizza. Featuring literally miles of cut tissue paper glued to the walls of the Meredith Gallery, this project has received extremely positive response, and we have extended the exhibition into the winter 2021–2022. Please stop by if you have not seen it and, if you have, come again.
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Since beginning my service as director of the Art Center, I have taken on a major curatorial project about every other year. But this year is an unusual one for me. In 2018, I am organizing two...
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The Art Center continues to work with community partners to be proximate with new audiences. Several recent examples exemplify these efforts. The Des Moines Symphony has commissioned the composer Steven Heitzeg to create Symphony in Sculpture III, the third...
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