Press - 2020 - Des Moines Art Center

Des Moines Art Center exhibition, Queer Abstraction, receives national award for outstanding exhibition and catalog

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.

Posted on Monday, December 14, 2020

Des Moines Art Center awarded Student Arts Education Investment Grant

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.

Posted on Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Des Moines Art Center to celebrate 20 years of Day of the Dead/Día de los Muertos virtually

The Des Moines Art Center is proud to continue their 20-year tradition of celebrating the Day of the Dead.

Posted on Friday, September 25, 2020

Des Moines Art Center to feature Iowa City photographer Rachel Cox for Iowa Artists: 2020 exhibition

The Des Moines Art Center is proud to continue their almost 70 year tradition of hosting an Iowa Artists exhibition. This year the Blank One gallery will feature the work of Iowa City-based photographer Rachel Cox. Iowa Artists 2020: Rachel Cox will open October 16, 2020 and close January 3, 2021.

Posted on Monday, September 21, 2020

Des Moines Art Center receives grant award from Iowa Arts Council

The Des Moines Art Center is pleased to announce that it has received a Cultural Leadership Partners Operating Support grant for $20,000 from the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs.

Posted on Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Des Moines Art Center receives Iowa Arts & Culture Emergency Relief Fund grant from Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs

The Des Moines Art Center has been awarded a grant of $18,000 from the Iowa Arts & Culture Emergency Relief Fund*, administered by the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs. Grant funds will support general operating costs of facilities, including utilities and maintenance expenses, as the Art Center responds to the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.

Posted on Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Des Moines Art Center presents more than two dozen Landscapes in Watercolor

When the Des Moines Art Center reopens on July 7, 2020, the John Brady Print Gallery will feature Landscapes in Watercolor, a selection of more than two dozen watercolors from the museum's collections, created between 1885 and 1980.

Posted on Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Des Moines Art Center to receive grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts

The Des Moines Art Center will receive an Art Works grant award of $19,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of its exhibition and educational programming for Justin Favela: Central American, slated to be on view at the Des Moines Art Center July 16, 2021 – October 17, 2021.

Posted on Thursday, June 11, 2020

Des Moines Art Center is planning to reopen to the community on Tuesday, July 7.

Weeks after closing physical doors to the museum and school in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Des Moines Art Center is planning to reopen to the community on Tuesday, July 7.

Posted on Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Des Moines Art Center to offer virtual summer classes and camps for youth and adults

The Des Moines Art Center has opened registration for a series of virtual youth art camps this summer. A slate of virtual adult class options will be released in the coming weeks.

Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2020