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This workshop explores ideas of queerness, fluidity, multiplicity, potentiality, and existence with artist Matthew Willie Garcia. For teens ages 14+. This workshop is free for participants. Date Time Friday, March 11 4 – 7 pm...

Join us to celebrate the opening of IMMERSIVE featuring artists Matthew Willie Garcia, Ran Hwang, Oyoram, and Bill Viola. Refreshments will be served. John and Mary Pappajohn Director Jeff Fleming will make remarks at 6...

The arts have a magical way of captivating our attention and transporting us to new worlds of expression and imagination. Find yourself Inside Art during Entirely Kids Day at the Des Moines Art Center. This...

IMMERSIVE FILM SERIES Films are, by their nature, immersive experiences. For this brief series, Curator (and film buff) Laura Burkhalter invited participating artist Matthew Willie Garcia and Dina Smith, a film scholar and associate professor...

The following program is available during museum hours, and has a duration of approximately 20 minutes. Please come and enjoy any time. The Des Moines Art Center invites you to participate in Slow Art Day...

IMMERSIVE FILM SERIES Films are, by their nature, immersive experiences. For this brief series, Curator (and film buff) Laura Burkhalter invited participating artist Matthew Willie Garcia and Dina Smith, a film scholar and associate professor...

Students with Iowa City West Singers are making a stop at the Des Moines Art Center to fill the I.M. Pei Building with their a cappella stylings on Friday, April 29. Drop in between 5:00-6:00...

IMMERSIVE FILM SERIES Films are, by their nature, immersive experiences. For this brief series, Curator (and film buff) Laura Burkhalter invited participating artist Matthew Willie Garcia and Dina Smith, a film scholar and associate professor...

Des Moines’ Owl’s Head neighborhood holds a special place at the Art Center as home to several early supporters of the museum and school, including the Coffin family. Local authors, Sondra Ashmore and Christine Vickery, have...

In partnership with Juneteenth Iowa, the Art Center invites you again to donate books by Black authors to Cameron Gray’s Black’d Out Books project. In February 2022, in celebration of Black History month, visitors to...

Iowa has a long history of welcoming refugees in our community. In recognition of World Refugee Day, which raises awareness for the state of refugees and celebrates their strength and resilience, the Refugee Center of...

Join us for an outdoor yoga practice on Monday evenings at the Des Moines Art Center. Arrive for yoga by 7:30 pm to learn interesting tidbits about the art and architecture of the Art Center...