Welcome to the Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation
The Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation enriches lives by advancing the best of public art by placing art in public spaces in the community through public and private collaborations, adding to the cultural record through its collections and educational programs. We invite you to discover public art through-out the Greater Des Moines area.
Featured Art this Month
Kerry James Marshall
July 2018 | Long-Term Collection
Other Public Art Downtown
Mitchell Squire
2019 | Short-Term Collection
Bus Wrap #10: Multiple Black
Tom Sachs
2007, fabricated in 2008 from an edition of 5 (5/5) | Long-Term Collection
Other Public Art Downtown
Featured Artists this Month
News + Initiatives Blog
Our blog posts are a growing knowledge base of insights, stories and information. Get inspired by and delve into a breathtaking array of public art.
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May 23, 2020Rendered site plan of urban farm planned for 2308/2310 Lyndale Ave, Hawthorne, Minneapolis. Image:... -
April 22, 2020"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... Variations of this proverbial expression can be...
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April 7, 2020Share stories of diversity, equality, inclusion and equity. Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation...
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April 1, 2020There is plenty of space around me as I take my daily walk, I...
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February 5, 2020Des Moines, Iowa (February 4, 2020) – The 6th Avenue Corridor Urban Neighborhood Main...
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January 21, 2020Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation proudly highlights a grant award of $40,000 from...
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October 29, 2019Internationally acclaimed artist Andy Goldsworthy’s project at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art brings to...
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October 18, 2019October 17, 2019: We mourn the passing of The Honorable Elijah E. Cummings, renowned...
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Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation increasingly utilizes social media as an important method to communicate with current and prospective audiences. Facebook and other social media platforms provide diverse opportunities to share the best of public art in Greater Des Moines to people around the world.
Social media participants can witness the public art process. Followers can watch a video of installations or an interview with artists, public art professionals, and educators on particular subjects. According to the Director M. Jessica Rowe at the Public Art Foundation, people do want to see more than just having public art appear: “Rather than hoping for an audience, we want to build an audience.”
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This public art work, RAGBRAI: "River to River" honors two individuals, John Karras and Donald Kaul, who founded RAGBRAI is the oldest, largest and longest recreational bicycle touring event in the world. #DSMPublicArt
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Carrie Duffy Nelsen, this is that sculpture at water works.
We invite you to join us THIS Saturday, April 17 at noon for the Dedication Ceremony of "River to River" by Gail Folwell.
"River to River" honors two individuals, John Karras and Donald Kaul, who founded RAGBRAI is the oldest, largest and longest recreational bicycle touring event in the world.
To learn more about the #PublicArt project visit: dsmpublicartfoundation.org/public-artwork/ragbrai-river-to-river/
To learn more about artist Gail Folwell visit: dsmpublicartfoundation.org/artist/gail-folwell/
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Roadshow - RAGBRAI
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About the Roadshows! Started in 2020, the RAGBRAI Roadshows were developed as a pop-up event series to showcase the bicycling trails across the state of Iowa and the local establishments that anchor t...Comment on Facebook
Happy Easter 🐰 to everyone who is celebrating today!
To learn more about ut and artist @tomsachs please visit: dsmpublicartfoundation.org/public-artwork/miffy-fountain/
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Public art shares stories of diversity, equality, inclusion and equity as they relate to the people and places of Iowa, especially those stories often untold. These resources are created to catalyze community conversations that can result in a shared, and fuller, appreciation of our common history — and common bonds. To learn more visit: dsmpublicartfoundation.org/resources/
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Resources | Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation
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Resources Explore some of the resources that are available to you. Educational Resources Chance for interaction: Since 2012, the Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation has created free online educat...Comment on Facebook
You can actually browse through all the dedicated locations on this map right here (tinylink.net/iTp5H), which also highlights details about each installed photo and the stories behind them. ... See MoreSee Less
A new public art exhibit is taking over 200 NYC bus shelters
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Jordan Weber, an artist based in Des Moines, Iowa, explores questions of incarceration and healing in St. Louis as artist-in-residence for a new project centered on the “Close the Workhouse” campaign.
Weber has been commissioned by the Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation for a project called “SWISH." This accomplished artist will be transforming an ordinary basketball courts into a remarkable, mural-style design. The court-site is in Oakridge Neighborhood, an urban public housing project of globally diverse populations: 51% under 18; 99% low-income. ... See MoreSee Less
Sam Fox School, CRE2, Pulitzer Arts Foundation welcome artist-in-residence Jordan Weber | The Source | Washington University in St. Louis
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Multidisciplinary artist Jordan Weber will discuss his work March 9. Weber is currently exploring questions of incarceration and healing in St. Louis as part of a new project, co-sponsored by the Sam ...Comment on Facebook
"Immersive Van Gogh'' opened in Chicago earlier this month. After selling out its initial engagement, it extended its stay through September to give more people the chance to walk through famous Van Gogh paintings such as "Irises," "Sunflowers," and "Starry Night."
The exhibit uses music, color, movement, and light to envelop visitors in the artist's work. It's meant to present scenes as glimpses of active life set among moving landscapes. Organizers promise a whopping 500,000 cubic feet of projections, including 60,600 video frames set to music. 🤩
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Here’s Your Chance to Step Inside Van Gogh’s Most Famous Paintings
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"Immersive Van Gogh," a multisensory experience that made its debut Toronto in July, will open in San Francisco in March and Los Angeles in May.Comment on Facebook
“LOVE” ❤️
Artist: Robert Indiana
An icon of American Modern Art — LOVE — 1969-1999, is the signature work of art by artist Robert Indiana.
The word Love in upper-case letters, arranged in a square with a tilted letter “O”.
Beginning in 1964, Indiana began to create images and objects using the word LOVE. Indiana maintained that a single word could be a viable subject of art by harnessing its emotional charge and the power of language.
With the universality of the word and subject in mind, the Museum of Modern Art selected his image of LOVE as its Christmas card in 1965, and the US Postal Service created a stamp with the image in 1973. It was quickly adopted by the “love generation” and enjoyed mass appeal, which continues today.
Other works in the edition of this particular format and colors are in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Tate Modern in London. Many museums around the world, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others, hold additional works by the artist.
Many versions of Robert Indiana’s Love sculpture that exist worldwide (1969–1999). The first rendering of it in sculpture was made in 1970. Sculptural versions now appear in urban centers around the globe. Variants employ the Hebrew, Chinese, Italian and Spanish languages, as well as the original English language. #LOVE #lovesculpture #allyouneedislove #happyvalentinesday #dsmpublicart ❣️
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