September 6, 2024
The Des Moines Art Center has received a $63,000 Collections Grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art to support our upcoming exhibition “Whisper to a Scream: Women Artists and Minimalism,” which is...
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September 3, 2024
The Des Moines Art Center is excited to announce that Ashton Cooper will be joining the curatorial team as Associate Curator beginning in October...
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August 13, 2024
The Des Moines Art Center has received a $5,000 grant award from the esteemed Teiger Foundation for the second year in a row. Based in New York City...
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August 8, 2024
The Des Moines Art Center has received a $50,000 grant from The Fred Maytag Family Foundation to significantly expand its collection of sculptures...
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August 7, 2024
The Des Moines Art Center is honored to have been selected to receive a Catalyst Grant award through the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative, a grantmaking program established by...
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August 6, 2024
The Des Moines Art Center has received two Community Betterment grants from Prairie Meadows to support its School Tours Program and the Community Art Access Program...
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July 8, 2024
Iowa’s 2023 census data cites that of the 3,207,004 people in the state, 84.4% or 2,702,598 of the population are white. Growing up in a state with such low rates of racial diversity is...
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May 30, 2024
b. Moore explores Black identity from the lens of a Des Moines native DES MOINES, IOWA (May 30, 2024) – Self-taught multi-disciplinary and independent Black contemporary artist, b. Robert Moore, is set to unveil a...
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May 16, 2024
The Des Moines Art Center is preparing for waves of excitement with the opening of a new, thought-provoking exhibition, “Hurricane Season: Caribbean Art + Climate Change,” on view June 8 to September 22, 2024...
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May 14, 2024
The Des Moines Art Center has received an Inspire Iowa Cultural Tourism Grant totaling $40,000. This grant will help the Art Center to create a multi-channel marketing campaign to elevate Iowa as an arts and cultural destination...
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