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Learn more about the 2025 Iowa Artists exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center, featuring local quilt maker Ben Millett. Based in Des Moines, Millett’s approach to textiles is literally multi-layered, employing traditional quilting techniques...

Step into the intricate and thought-provoking world of “Firelei Báez” with a guided tour of the exhibition. Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, this exhibition is the first North American survey dedicated to the...

Join our 2025 Iowa Artist Ben Millett and Des Moines Art Center Senior Curator Laura Burkhalter for a gallery talk about Millett’s solo exhibition on view in the lower Richard Meier galleries. Learn more about...

Join us for a guided tour of the “Life Mask: A Celebration of Gifts from the Dale Jansen Estate” exhibition, on view in the John Brady Print Gallery April 25 through August 31, 2025. This...

Join us for one last chance to visit and learn about the exhibition “Light Within Ourselves: Haitian Art in Iowa,” before the show closes on Sunday, September 7! Hear from an Art Center docent details...

The presentation of “Firelei Báez” at the Des Moines Art Center closes on Sunday, September 21—join us for a guided exhibition tour one final time! Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, this exhibition is the first...

You’re invited to stop by and watch an artist at work in the Des Moines Art Center’s galleries! Ben Millett will be hand quilting in the “Iowa Artists 2025: Ben Millett” exhibition space for the...

Learn more about the 2025 Iowa Artists exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center, featuring local quilt maker Ben Millett. Based in Des Moines, Millett’s approach to textiles is literally multi-layered, employing traditional quilting techniques...