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
Tom Sachs
2007, fabricated in 2008 from an edition of 5 (5/5) | Long-Term Collection
Other Public Art Downtown
Mitchell Squire
2019 | Short-Term Collection
Bus Wrap #10: Multiple Black
Kerry James Marshall
July 2018 | 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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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... -
June 22, 2019The Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation is emphasizes that the spaces embracing public...
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March 20, 2019Des Moines, Iowa: On 13 March 2019 the Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation...
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November 20, 2018Who were the most influential people in 2018 contemporary artworld? ArtReview’s annual ranking of the...
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November 2, 2018The Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation in partnership with The City of Pleasant...
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October 6, 2018The Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation proudly presents the world premiére of temporary, site-specific, public...
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August 2, 2018On July 12, 2018, Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation proudly dedicated A MONUMENTAL...
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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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A Veteran’s Prayer for Eternal Peace is a 15-foot-high, bronze sculpture at the center of a memorial to military chaplains. A large, cupped pair of hands is supported by a series of short poles. The hands are in the center of a circular plaza with a walkway that includes benches, depictions of chaplains, and symbols of religious beliefs. #VeteransDay #DSMPublicArt #ThankYouVeterans ... See MoreSee Less
A Veteran’s Prayer for Eternal Peace | Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation
A Veteran’s Prayer for Eternal Peace is a 15-foot-high, bronze sculpture at the center of a memorial to military chaplains. A large, cupped pair of hands is supported by a series of short poles. The...Posted 4 hours ago
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Nancy Whitt,Yancy De Lathouder,AnnMarie De Lathouder Freeman,Alexi Gow,Maddux Delathouder,Sarah Jean Johnson
In 2012, the GDMPAF began creating free educational resources for families and educators that deepen understandings and enhance experiences of public art in Greater Des Moines.
Public art is intended to share stories of diversity, equality, inclusion, and equity as they relate to the people and places of Iowa, especially those stories often untold. We hope that these resources will catalyze community conversations that can result in a shared, and fuller, understanding of our common history — and common bonds.
These useful resources developed in two stages. GDMPAF seeks to engage a cross-section of students, as well as communities, in telling, discussing and perhaps even producing the stories depicted in public art.
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Resources | Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation
Resources Explore some of the resources that are available to you. Educational Resources In 2012, the GDMPAF began creating free educational resources for families and educators that deepen understand...Posted 3 days ago
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“Spectral Liberation”
Artist: Christiane T. Martens
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Posted 6 days ago
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Featured Artist of the Month: Jun Kaneko.
Jun's work is included in more than 60 museum collections including the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Museum of Nebraska Art, Scripps College, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He has realized over 25 public art commissions around the world.
You will find his work, "Five Dangos and Expansion" in downtown Des Moines along with Principal River Walk.
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Jun Kaneko | Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation
Jun Kaneko, born in Nagoya, Japan in 1942, has followed his own path and continually experiments with the technical aspects of the ceramic medium. His enormous dango forms, which range as high as elev...Posted 1 week ago
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F🍁LL in LOVE with the @pappajohnsculpturepark. ✨#dsmpublicart #publicart #artpark #lovesculpture ... See MoreSee Less
Posted 2 weeks ago
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LOVE in October❤️
Zulal Biner, LOVE in October.
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Posted 3 weeks ago
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Nick Cave Is the Most Joyful, and Critical, Artist in America
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Nick Cave Is the Most Joyful, and Critical, Artist in America
Using materials that range from twigs to crystals to rainbow-colored hair, the artist makes sculptures that, for all their beauty, are visceral and necessary critiques of racial injustice.Posted 4 weeks ago
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Spider 🕷
Artist: Louise Bourgeois
The artist, Louise Bourgeois, has been using spiders in her work since the 1940s, and in the 1990s began sculpting them into colossal forms like this. Surprisingly, she sees them not as ominous predators, but as a symbol for her much beloved mother. For the artist, whose work has explored themes of childhood memory and loss, the spider carries associations of a maternal figure. Indeed, Bourgeois’ “Spider” series relates to her own mother who died when the artist was twenty-one. The allusion to her mother as a weaver refers to the Bourgeois family’s tapestry restoration business, in which her mother was the chief seamstress. #dsmpublicart #publicart #louisebourgeois #spider #spiderart #pappajohnsculpturepark #desmoines #desmoinesiowa #entirelyunexpected #midwestmoment ... See MoreSee Less
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Je l ai vu à New York , impressionnante œuvre .
Rebecca
Kristen Wood we should go look at this