Welcome to the Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation

06 | 01 | 18Public Art Soars High Into the San Francisco Skyline

Recently, The New York Times reported that the Salesforce Tower, the second tallest building west of the Mississippi, has taken the concept of public...

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...