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The Des Moines Art Center is excited to showcase a brilliant array of feminist works created by five artists featured in our Images Unbound exhibition. This free event includes shorts by Anna Gaskell, Carrie Mae Weems,...

The City of Des Moines is offering Free Flicks at locations throughout Des Moines.  On Friday, July 8 the Art Center will host  this free outdoor family-friendly event featuring ‘Encanto’ on the north lawn of...

Presented in collaboration with the Des Moines Metro Opera, ‘American Apollo’ is a new opera based on a story forged at the crossroad of celebrity, class, race, and power in America, giving voice to a...

Presented in collaboration with the Des Moines Metro Opera, ‘American Apollo’ is a new opera based on a story forged at the crossroad of celebrity, class, race, and power in America, giving voice to a...

Roll down to the Pappajohn Sculpture Park for the most Instagrammable bike ride of the year! Join Art Noir on Saturday, July 23 for a tour of public art in downtown Des Moines. This tour...

Presented in collaboration with the Des Moines Metro Opera, ‘American Apollo’ is a new opera based on a story forged at the crossroad of celebrity, class, race, and power in America, giving voice to a...

Join the Des Moines Art Center for our free two-day ART & ACTIVISM workshop for teens. Explore photography, publication, and installation with Latinx visual artists Xavier Tavera and Bobby Marines. Using the Art Center’s permanent...

What makes a work of art any different than the thousands of images that enter our homes every day? Photographs, photocopies, prints, the internet, televisions, and cell phones; in a world of endless and easy...

Reservations required (6 groups per 30-minute interval, 1 ticket includes up to 15 people total) Did someone say free photos? Why, yes we did! Here’s a rare opportunity to gather your family and/or friends for...

The Des Moines Art Center Gala is an annual celebration that serves as the organization’s only fundraising event. Funds generated by the gala support free admission, community outreach, and museum education-related programming. Saturday, September 17,...