Joan was also a long-time supporter of the Des Moines Art Center (which opened the year after Joan arrived in Des Moines), the Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines, the Iowa Jewish Senior ...

A nearly year-long legal battle between the Des Moines Art Center and New York-based artist Mary Miss has ended in a $900,000 settlement and sparked a public art advocacy fund. This story has been ...

January 2024 photo of New York artist Mary Miss in her studio in Tribeca, New York. Miss' art installation, Greenwood Pond: Double Site at the Des Moines Art Center, is under threat of demolition.

In Iowa, plans to demolish a land art installation from 1996 by artist Mary Miss at the Des Moines Art Center have been stopped, at least for the time being. The temporary restraining order was ...

On Tuesday, the Des Moines Art Center reached an agreement with Miss, 80, to dismantle her sprawling outdoor installation, “Greenwood Pond: Double Site,” in exchange for $900,000, ending the ...

WITH THE GROWTH FROM APPAREL TO TRADITIONAL ART AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. MAIN FRAME STUDIOS HERE IN KILL WAY IS HOME TO MORE THAN 100 ARTISTS FROM DES MOINES AND BEYOND. KYLE CURRAN DESIGNS AND ...

The Des Moines Art Center in Iowa has reached a settlement with Mary Miss more than nine months after the groundbreaking land artist filed a lawsuit to stop the institution from demolishing an ...

Untitled (Erzulie Freda) on display at the Des Moines Art Center. Did you know that Iowa is home to the largest publicly held collection of Haitian art in the country? A small selection of those ...

The Des Moines Art Center has revamped its cafe through a partnership with a restaurant born in Des Moines. The art center announced on April 28 that it had partnered with the owners of La Mie to ...

The Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation and the Des Moines Airport have partnered and selected five artists to create five large-scale art installations throughout the new airport terminal ...

This year’s honorees are Teree Caldwell-Johnson (1956-2024) of Des Moines; Martha-Ellen Tye (1909-1998) of Marshalltown; and Liffring-Zug Bourret (1929-2022). Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret ...