July 5, 2023
The Des Moines Art Center has received a major grant award of $5,000 from Humanities Iowa, a state-based independent humanities council, in support of exhibition programming for “Transform Any Room,” on view...
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May 24, 2023
The Des Moines Art Center has been approved for a $20,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support the exhibition "Underneath Everything: Humility and Grandeur in Contemporary Ceramics," slated to be on view...
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May 8, 2023
The Des Moines Art Center is grateful to be the recipient of a gift from the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation. As reported by the New York Times, this gift...
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December 13, 2022
The Des Moines Art Center is honored to receive a 2023 Cultural Leadership Grant from Bravo Greater Des Moines that will support free admission and programming throughout the year. Bravo’s grant-making programs enable the Art Center to provide...
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December 1, 2022
The Des Moines Art Center has again achieved accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums, the highest national recognition afforded to the nation’s museums. Accreditation signifies excellence to the museum community, to governments, funders, outside agencies, and...
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July 15, 2022
The Des Moines Art Center is honored to receive a 2022 Cultural Leadership Grant and a 2022 Capital Project Grant from Bravo Greater Des Moines that will support free admission and programming throughout the year and advance facility...
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January 3, 2022
The Des Moines Art Center is thrilled to announce it has been awarded a Humanities Project grant from the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs to support “Immersive” exhibition....
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July 13, 2021
The Des Moines Art Center is thrilled to announce it has been awarded an Arts and Culture Grant from the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs.
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December 14, 2020
The Des Moines Art Center is proud to announce that the groundbreaking exhibition Queer Abstraction has received the 2020 SECAC Award for Outstanding Exhibition and Catalog of Contemporary Materials.
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October 27, 2020
The Des Moines Art Center is thrilled to announce it has been awarded a Student Arts Education Investment Grant from Bravo Greater Des Moines and the Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines.
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