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04 | 12 | 18Artist Jordan Weber Receives Fellowship to Enact Malcolm X Teachings in North Omaha

Jordan J. Weber of Des Moines, Iowa joins a growing body of artists that the arts organization called A Blade of Grass (ABOG) supports...

04 | 04 | 18Installation Begins On Long-awaited Public Art Sculpture 

“A MONUMENTAL JOURNEY” INSTALLATION BEGINS   Des Moines, IA (April 4, 2018) —The Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation is pleased to announce that...

02 | 01 | 18Engaging the World through Public Art

A recent magazine article drew attention to art which engages with current events, whether exhibited in galleries or public spaces, have been a major source...

01 | 31 | 18A Mixed-use Urban Renewal Project

Browsing through a recent Interior Design magazine, I read with great interest a project by a Warsaw firm called Massive Design. Marching across a...

12 | 15 | 17What Artists See, What Inspires Them, When They Look

“The Artist Project: What Artists See When They Look at Art” is the book version of the web series the Met produced in 2015-16....

12 | 15 | 1780-year-old wooden escalator forms amazing sculpture

Artist Chris Fox has created a mind warping public sculpture in Sydney, Australia’s heritage-listed underground railway station Wynard. Interloop is Fox’s answer to repurposing the...

12 | 05 | 17Guardian Angel

Des Moines, Iowa: At the beginning of December, the painting called “Guardian Angel” (1885) by Theodore Leistner was unveiled. Now the community is invited...

12 | 01 | 17ARTnews Provides International Coverage of Kerry James Marshall’s Public Art Project in Des Moines

Today (01 Dec 2017), ARTnews posted a new article that heralds the important public art project called “A Monumental Journey.” A MUST READ! The...