The Common Well, a "coworking community of artists," opened in Garden City in early 2023 and has since provided the community with a contemporary art gallery, a visiting artist studio,
We know this valley is changing. In the world of contemporary art, it is bursting with youthful energy, and Garden City is its locus. Old warehouses and commercial buildings along
Des Moines Art Center’s new show “Transform Any Room” is a call to everyone’s inner artist. A mish mash of crafts, weavings, assemblages and mixed media, “TAR” is designed to show its audience that decorating, collecting and shopping can be artistic self-revelations.
Glittering beads, vibrant Aze
Des Moines Art Center Print Gallery’s exhibition “Double Take” attempts to make a photographer’s involvement as much a part of the medium as his subject. Curator Laura Burkhalter and guest curator Ben Easter (a superb photographer himself) selected pairs of images “one of which is a staged or pose