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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...