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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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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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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.
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May your days be MERRY & BRIGHT! ✨❤️
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. “Expansion” by artist: #JunKaneko was fabricated in collaboration with Derix Glasstudios. Illuminated from behind with 39,060 LED lights, the mural is located on the exterior wall of the triangular pump station and faces north towards the HubSpot Plaza and pavilion where, Kaneko’s signature “dango” sculptures stand. #dsmpublicart #merryandbright #dsmusa #catchdsm #artroutedsm #desmoines #iowa #happyholidays #colorblock #streetart #mural ... See MoreSee Less
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Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation Featured Artist: Oyoram
Yorame Mevorach (also known as Oyoram) is a Franco-Israeli artist and filmmaker. Born in Jerusalem in 1951, he first studied engineering, but was quickly drawn to the cinema. He received an undergraduate degree in film at Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts in Ramat Gan, and moved to Paris where he studied cinematic theory at the Sorbonne (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III). His visual art work has been commissioned by prestigious companies including Cartier, Van Cliff & Arpel, Sony, and Louis Vuitton.
Oyoram’s visual inventions have included small eye-glass lenses used to reveal the wearer’s subjective viewpoint to a 15 meter high clock, a spectacular metaphor dramatizing time as a circus ring. A designer, script-writer, and director, Oyoram experiments with immersive cinematic experiences as in the 2003 traveling exhibit Diamonds and the Power of Love shown in Tokyo, Las Vegas and Paris, featuring 11 mannequins brought to life by the magic of image- projection. In Retrophobies, a composition of 26 films simultaneously playing on large screens, Oyoram fused art and technology to invent “Vunettes” for an individual audio-visual experience in a public space. He also pioneered the seamless mix of painted canvas and moving images in Double You See, a traveling exhibition shown in 2006-2007 in Paris and Hamburg. Since 2007, when he imagined into creation “virtual windows” in the famous rotunda Dior Avenue Montaigne, Oyoram has designed monumental visual moving fresques for Dior.
With the completion of his studio in Des Moines, his recent work has moved into immersive environments that can be seen as the culmination of many decades of experimentation into the poetic and sensorial possibilities of a cinematic visual language. #dsmpublicart ... See MoreSee Less
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Your tax-deductible contribution to the Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation positively impacts the lives of thousands of people and builds support for and awareness of public art. Public art project sponsorship offers significant philanthropic and marketing opportunities. To learn more visit --->>> dsmpublicartfoundation.org/get-involved/ ... See MoreSee Less
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This holiday season give the gift of #publicart!
Our public spaces are critical to a civic life that honors and celebrates our humanity and history. The public art conservation program is built on three basic components: assessment, maintenance, and treatment. It needs your support to ensure that public art continues to enrich our environment, prompt us to ask questions, and feed our imaginations.
Your tax-deductible contribution positively impacts the lives of thousands of people and builds support for and awareness of public art. Public art project sponsorship offers significant philanthropic and marketing opportunities. #dsmpublicart
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Support the Foundation You can support the Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation through donations and charitable giving. The most common forms of giving are cash, but there are other types of asse...Posted 3 weeks ago
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Featured Artist of the Month: Marianne Fairbanks.
Check out Fairbank's work here in Des Moines on "Zigs Zag, Zags Zig" the 9th Public Art Bus in collaboration with DART. #DSMPublicArt #ArtOnDART ... See MoreSee Less
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We invite you to support the Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation!
#public art contends with a complex urban environment full of unpredictable activities: frequent use, pollution, little security, and the power of natural elements can contribute to wear or damage. While public art may pose myriad conservation challenges, its enhancement of civic life more than justifies the effort to preserve it in public spaces. Our public spaces are critical to a civic life that honors and celebrates our humanity and history. The public art conservation program is built on three basic components: assessment, maintenance, and treatment. It needs your support to ensure that public art continues to enrich our environment, prompt us to ask questions, and feed our imaginations.
Your tax-deductible contribution positively impacts the lives of thousands of people and builds support for and awareness of public art. Public art project sponsorship offers significant philanthropic and marketing opportunities. #dsmpublicart ... See MoreSee Less
Support the Foundation | Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation
Support the Foundation You can support the Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation through donations and charitable giving. The most common forms of giving are cash, but there are other types of asse...Posted 4 weeks ago
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