OCT NOV DEC 2018 FROM DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION JILL FEATHERSTONE
ENTIRELY kids
Bingo A fun way for kids and adults to talk about a wide variety of art, with the feel of a game. Handouts are available at the Information Desk. Includes light-hearted museum guidelines told through puppy illustrations.
Entirely Kids Labels These labels provide conversation starters and interactive prompts for kids and their accompanying adults.
Baby + Me Tours Jill Featherstone’s own kids offer s Director of Education at the Babies respond to the visual stimulation her real perspective on developing Art Center, I’m delighted Director of the artwork and the unique architectural museum programming for children. A Jeff Fleming invited me to contribute environments while adults enjoy a free the opening remarks for this newsletter. drop-in tour.
The message I’m sharing brings to mind Books + Blankets this passage by the celebrated children’s Free drop-in museum experiences featuring author Philip Pullman, “We say, correctly, story selections inspired by art on view. that every child has a right to food and Listening, observation, and verbal skills shelter, to education, to medical treatment, are practiced. and so on. We must understand that every child has a right to the experience of culture. Art Spectrums We must fully understand that without stories Free museum and studio experiences and poems and pictures and music, children designed for children on the autism will starve.” This belief is a driving force in spectrum. Family participation is encouraged. our work at the Art Center and as such, Reservations required.
I’m very pleased to introduce you to our Entirely Kids Days new Entirely Kids initiative. Free drop-in events that activate the museum Entirely Kids encompasses child-centered as a site for creative thinking, making, and learning and family engagement at the other expressive activities. Art Center. While the Art Center has long offered formal learning opportunities such as Family Workshops and studio classes and guided tours for young My Little Artist+Me Classes students and visitors, in an effort to become Participants visit the museum and a more welcoming and relevant space for experiment with art techniques to make, families to visit in their free time, we’ve build, paint, and create together. added opportunities for informal learning Tuition varies; scholarships available. and self-directed discovery. The following list represents some of our new materials and We hope these opportunities events that appeal to the curiosity, interests, nurture wonder and inspire a visit and energy of kids. to the Art Center.
2 | OCT NOV DEC 2018 FROM LAVONNE RUS-OGILVIE DOCENT AND VOLUNTEER
IMPACT IN THE SPIRIT OF LOUISE NOUN s a docent and volunteer at the insert a teen (like themselves) into the Des Moines Art Center, I would like Deanna Larson photograph, seeing it as A to thank the Art Center for staging a progression of one woman rather than the exhibition In the Spirit of Louise Noun. a mother and daughters. Due to a perfect storm of opportunities, I witnessed art created in response to I spent many hours with diverse groups of Marlene Dumas’ Light Blonde and rich young women in the exhibition. It started discussions on gender identity. Water with seeing through a feminist lens planning Woman wowed everyone, every visit. for the Feminism and Art weekend as part of A sixth-grader asked if the artist was black, the Art and Activism workshop in late June, then followed up with, “I think she wanted and continued into gallery conversations with to make something that looked like her.” the Young Women’s Resource Center teen While I wish I could summarize all the summer camp students. stories, I can say that more than 100 young Louise Noun would be proud to see how women from diverse backgrounds were her collection and other art by women is inspired and empowered in some way by being used to generate critical thinking and engaging with the art by women presented empower young women: whether it’s the in this exhibition. young woman who reflected on the Cindy Thank you again for your thoughtful Sherman Untitled in the portrait grouping curatorial decisions, and living the saying, “She looks like how I feel most of Art Center’s mission of inclusion. the time,” to middle schoolers wanting to
Teens from the Young Women’s Resource Center dialogue with docent Lavonne Rus-Ogilvie about Cecily Brown’s Half-Bind.
DESMOINESARTCENTER.ORG | 3 THROUGH JANUARY 6, 2019 / ANNA K. MEREDITH GALLERY CO-ORGANIZED BY FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE DRAWING CENTER BRETT LITTMAN AND DIRECTOR JEFF FLEMING
NEO RAUCH Aus dem boden / From the Floor
FILM This exhibition is the first museum project deeper experience, or perhaps, for answers. Neo Rauch: in the United States to focus solely on the But in Rauch’s drawings, like in all good Comrades and Companions German artist Neo Rauch’s drawings. It is mystery stories, the answers don’t give Sunday, November 4 1:30 pm a collaborative project with The Drawing themselves up easily, if at all. Nicola Graef, director Center in New York, where the show will These intimate images provide a limited German with English subtitles travel after its presentation in Des Moines. glimpse into the mind of an artist who does 105 minutes / not rated This comprehensive survey of not often allow such access, and give us Levitt Auditorium approximately 180 drawings showcases an encounter with Rauch’s working figures that inhabit artificial and melancholy processes that his more polished works dreamscapes where things appear to be in often deny. limbo or illogical actions are in play. Rauch’s An illustrated catalogue, produced by The imagery points to mysteries and lost Drawing Center, accompanies the exhibition. narratives that lure the viewer in for a
This print was created by Neo Rauch to be sold to support the exhibition. A limited edition of the signed prints can be purchased in the Museum Shop.
Film still from Neo Rauch: Comrades and Companions
TANDEM GALLERY DIALOGUE with Jeff Fleming, Director and Dr. Peter Daniolos, Training Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Iowa “Exploring Dreams” Sunday, November 11 1:30 pm Anna K. Meredith Gallery
Neo Rauch (German, born 1960) Zuflucht, 2018 Lithograph, edition 40 4 x 4 3/4 inches Courtesy the artist, Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin and David Zwirner © Neo Rauch, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
4 | OCT NOV DEC 2018 Neo Rauch (German, born 1960) Der Stammbaum, 2017 Oil on paper 66 1/4 x 81 3/8 inches Courtesy the artist, Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin and David Zwirner © Neo Rauch, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
DESMOINESARTCENTER.ORG | 5 IOWA ARTIST 2018 JEN BERVIN
Jen Bervin with mirrored reflection of River detail
ARTIST LECTURE + The Des Moines Art Center is pleased PUBLIC RECEPTION: to premiere River by the artist and poet JEN BERVIN Thursday, October 18 Jen Bervin. River maps the Mississippi 7 pm from the headwaters in Lake Itasca, Levitt Auditorium + lobby Minnesota to its delta south of New Orleans, Join Jen Bervin for a lecture Louisiana. Over the course of about her artistic practice and 12 years, the artist sewed the 230-feet- celebrate the opening of her long curvilinear sculpture by hand exhibition with complimentary including each of the thousands of beverages and hors d’oeuvres. reflective, silver sequins that densely cover * Reservations required the surface. She calculates that it took the same amount of time to sew each section of the river as it would take to walk the real one — the scale is one inch to one mile. River is presented from a geocentric perspective as if the viewer was inside the earth’s interior looking up at the river. Bervin was born and raised OPPOSITE in Dubuque, Iowa and currently River, 2018 Silver foil-stamped cloth sequins, resides in Connecticut. Her poetic, metallic silver thread, silver multidisciplinary, conceptually-driven mulberry paper, mull, Tyvek 230 curvilinear feet work results from intensive research Installation dimensions and collaboration with artists and approximately 100 x 20 feet specialists ranging from material Courtesy of the artist scientists to literary scholars.
6 | OCT NOV DEC 2018 OCTOBER 19, 2018 – JANUARY 27, 2019 I. M. PEI BUILDING / COWLES SCULPTURE COURT ORGANIZED BY DIRECTOR OF CURATORIAL AFFAIRS / SENIOR CURATOR ALISON FERRIS IOWA ARTIST 2018 JEN BERVIN
DESMOINESARTCENTER.ORG | 7 New Accessions
Sterling Ruby Eleanor Antin Purchased with funds from the Coffin Fine The Art Center also purchased two works by Arts Trust, Sterling Ruby’s Basin Theology/ Eleanor Antin and Sherrie Levine with funds Butterfly Wreck, 2013, is a prime example from the Des Moines Art Center Print Club of the artist’s work in clay. The sculpture and the Edmundson Art Foundation. Antin’s exemplifies his exuberant response to materials MAKING IT!, 1971–72, consists of five and his sense of play that resonates throughout photo-postcards and comes from her iconic his practice in the medium. Ruby responds series “100 Boots.” In this series, Antin to the properties of clay and glaze and the photographed the adventures of 100 black accidents inherent in their use, often exposing boots traveling from the West Coast to and exploiting these very mishaps in the final New York and reproduced them in postcards artwork. His clay sculptures are found in she sent to friends. This particular grouping many museum collections worldwide and are of postcards shows the boots’ arrival in exhibited widely, including the 2014 Whitney New York, including their visit to the Museum Biennial, where this work was first shown. of Modern Art. Exhibited and collected widely, including a retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this is the first work by the artist to enter the collections.
Sherrie Levine Levine’s Barcham Green Portfolio No. 5, 1986, a photogravure and aquatint, is an iconic work by the artist comprised of a reproduction of a famous, depression-era image by the American artist Walker Evans. It is a landmark work of postmodern-appropriation art. Through this image and others, the artist exposes mass media’s manipulations of information and questions the commodification of art through a decidedly feminist point of view. Levine is widely collected by major institutions around the world; this will be the first work by the artist to enter the collections. Sterling Ruby (American, born Germany, 1972) Basin Theology / Butterfly Wreck, 2013 Mary Mattingly Ceramic In addition, the American artist Mary Mattingly 28 1/8 x 39 3/8 x 41 inches Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Purchased has given the Art Center a Chromogenic dye with funds from the Coffin Fine Arts Trust, 2018.15 coupler print entitled Over and Over and, 2018, Photo by Robert Wedemeyer from her recent series of photographs exploring
OPPOSITE TOP the impact of industry on the landscape. Eleanor Antin (American, born 1935) Mattingly is best known for art that merges MAKING IT!, 1971–1972 Five photo-postcards / 4 1/2 × 7 inches each environmental activism with performance and Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Partial gift object making. Inspired by still-life painting, of the Des Moines Art Center Print Club, and purchased this image features poetically arranged chunks with Director’s Discretionary Fund, 2018.17.d of cobalt, coal, granite, and phosphate, as well as wood from the trees removed to mine cobalt in Michigan. 8 | OCT NOV DEC 2018
Mary Mattingly (American, born 1979) Over and Over and, 2018 Chromogenic dye coupler print 37 × 36 1/8 inches Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Gift of Mary Mattingly, 2018.14
Sherrie Levine (American, born 1947) Barcham Green Portfolio No. 5, 1986 Photogravure with aquatint printed in white 31 1/2 × 22 3/4 inches Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Purchased with Director’s Discretionary Funds, 2018.16
DESMOINESARTCENTER.ORG | 9 WANGECHI MUTU On Thursday, October 4 the Art Center will present an artist lecture by Wangechi Mutu.
LECTURE Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan-born, woman of East African folklore that blends Thursday, October 4 internationally renowned artist who has human characteristics with those of the 7 pm studied in both New York and Nairobi. She endangered Dugong, a relative of the manatee. Levitt Auditorium will speak about her work and developments The artist has said the Nguva represents a Reservations required * in her art, and how the events in her life “bewitching female aquatic being with powers have influenced and shaped her practice. to entrance and drown susceptible mortals.” Mutu explores sexuality and femininity, The Art Center also featured two of consumerism and excess, violence, ethnicity Mutu’s films — Cutting, 2004, as part of the and identity, and the rift between nature exhibition Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, and culture in her work. Journeys 1967–2017; and The End of The Art Center accessioned Mutu’s eating Everything, 2013 — as part of the stunning black bronze Water Woman in Art Center’s single-channel series 2017, a sculpture of a Nguva, a water- “Journeys into Peripheral Worlds.”
Wangechi Mutu / Banana Stroke 2017 / Site Specific Action Painting Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (13–14 November 2017) Courtesy of the Artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, Victoria Miro London, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects Photo: Cynthia Edorh
10 | OCT NOV DEC 2018 DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS DAY OF THE DEAD
DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS / The Des Moines Art Center is proud to The festival will feature all of the beloved DAY OF THE DEAD host the 18th annual Día de los Muertos / Day of the Dead traditions—mariachi music, CELEBRATION Day of the Dead celebration. Day of the Dead festive décor, themed art activities, and Sunday, October 28 Noon – 4 pm is a traditional Mexican celebration that honors bilingual tours. This year’s film, directed by the lives of members of the community who Vince Valdez, will focus on the iconography FILM have recently passed away with a festive and traditions of Day of the Dead around the Coco day of music, dancing, food and drink, world, as well as the 18-year history of the October 25 / 6:30 pm Art Center front lawn art activities, and remembrances for the event at the Des Moines Art Center. whole family. To further celebrate the community’s In the event of inclement weather, the film will This year’s celebration will be devoted to participation, the Art Center will be hosting be screened in the community rather than specific individuals. a screening of the 2017 Pixar film Coco on Levitt Auditorium. Community members are asked to bring the lawn at 6:30 pm on October 25, weather objects to honor their loved ones on an permitting. In the event of inclement weather, ofrenda (altar) October 20 – 25. Participants the film will be screened in Levitt Auditorium. will be able to leave an object and a note More information about the Day of the Dead to honor their loved one, which will then be community ofrenda and how to participate can assembled and curated for the ofrenda. These be found on the Art Center’s website. objects and notes will be posted on the Art Center’s website as well, to share the CELEBRATION ACTIVITIES stories with a broader audience. Mariachi music
Art activities in the studios
Pan de Muerto (Traditional Day of the Dead bread)
Mexican hot chocolate
Food available for purchase by Tamale’s Industry and cash bar (no ATM on premises)
Day of the Dead merchandise available for sale in the Museum Shop
Free shuttle from Merrill Middle School
12:30 and 2:30 pm Bilingual tours of the Art Center (Spanish and English)
1 and 3 pm Film screening in Levitt Auditorium Vince Valdez / director
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2018 SUMMER
INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
This past summer, six interns were hired to teach the Art Center’s Children and Teen 11-week summer camps and classes. The interns brought new energy and excitement to their classes. Each had a unique way of building relationships with their students.
The interns underwent a series My most memorable moment of trainings to help them develop During this internship, I with a student was during Art Animals lesson plans, prepare for classroom “week. The student told me early in learned invaluable lessons about management, and bond with each “how to create a community within the week she wasn’t comfortable other before beginning to teach in my class. I got to work with so creating things, she was a writer. June. In addition to showcasing their many amazing students who were We were making animal puppets individual strengths, the interns had willing to collaborate and share that week and they were to create a the opportunity to learn new skills their thoughts about artwork freely personality for the puppet to bring it by shadowing and co-teaching with and without judgment. One of to life. The student was really worried experienced faculty in the ceramics my favorite moments from the about creating this so I asked her to and digital studios. They were also summer was probably seeing all write a story for her puppet. It was able to shadow and co-teach in of my seven- and eight-year-old awesome to see her story come to life our community Access program. Stop Motion Animation camp in her animal. She had written about A few interns are returning this fall students sitting together watching the puppet’s favorite food, given it a as teaching faculty. Here they share each other’s videos at their nickname, and even wrote a song some memorable moments from big showing in the auditorium about it. Once she had crafted her their summer teaching experiences. and cheering in admiration for story, creating the puppet became everyone’s hard work. Some even really exciting. She even sang the asked if they could take everyone’s song after finishing the puppet. It videos home on a flash drive, was amazing to watch her grow and One of my favorite instead of just their own! have fun that week. KIM DALE memories concerns a five-year- “old who fell asleep from time RYAN KONING to time during my afternoon ” ” class. He was one of my more challenging students, but at the I am happy to say that this end of a long week, while I was is the career for me and any chatting with another student “doubts I may have had about about what we were doing in My favorite class was the art and teaching art in the future are class, he came up and gave movement class. I had one particular gone. FROM AN INTERNSHIP me a big hug and said, ‘I love “ student who came in the first day really EXIT SURVEY you Kris’ and went right back to quiet and shy. I asked the student’s creating his artwork. Totally made name and if they were excited for the ” the whole week worth it. week. The student answered, ‘I’M KRISTER STRANDSKOV READY TO DANCE!’ and then broke ” out into dance moves. This student got everyone else in the class excited about how to incorporate art and movement. KATIE DUVAL 12 | OCT NOV DEC 2018 ” KAYLA BATES JAMILA KRISTER KIM DALE KATIE DUVAL RYAN KONING Grandview JOHNSON STRANDSKOV Iowa State Iowa State Luther College University graduate, University graduate Iowa State Grandview University graduate, student, BFA K–12 and Grandview University student, University graduate, BFA Integrated BA K-12 Art Art Education University student, Studio Arts Education BFA Integrated BA Photography and Studio Art BA Interdisciplinary Studio Arts Krister supplied Design and K–12 Katie brought Ryan researched Kayla was an Jamila led Zumba Art Education her unique talent and taught herself and played a Emerging Student dancing with and passion for how to screenprint didgeridoo for Kim taught her Artist for the students weekly jewelry to her teen and monoprint. his five- to six- five- and six- Des Moines Arts (most regularly to jewelry-making She also learned year-old students year-olds how Festival, and Shakira’s “Waka and metalworking a special etching during the week to choreograph taught her Art Waka (This Time students. In technique using of World of Art an original Meets Science for Africa)” song), addition to teaching soap, aluminum camp. This was performance students the nail which became children’s and teen foil, and cola, the first time piece on the polish marbling popular across all classes, Katie was which she then he had worked Levitt Auditorium techniques she classes; students able to shadow taught her teen with students stage using the used to create who weren’t even and co-teach adult printmaking this young and story of “The artwork for the in Jamila’s class jewelry classes, students. Ryan he created Three Little Pigs” Festival. Kayla was would ask to join and is returning as was also an wonderful personal during her Art and hired to teach art in the dancing. an adult jewelry Emerging Student relationships by Movement class. full-time at Madison instructor this fall. Artist at the connecting his She also taught Elementary shortly Des Moines Arts Scandinavian herself yoga poses after graduating. Festival. heritage to their to teach to the lessons. students.
The Art Center will continue the Summer Education Internship program in 2019. Applications will be on the Art Center’s website in January 2019.
DESMOINESARTCENTER.ORG | 13 #ARTCENTERED WITH MEMBERSHIP MANAGER JULIA MASON GRAY
New Art Center Membership Giving Levels and Benefits
EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1
The Art Center continues to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its free admission program. Membership contributions support free admission, one of the core tenets of the Art Center since its founding. While considering this milestone anniversary, keeping things fresh for our members was of utmost importance, which is why we have added exciting enhancements to the membership program. Members should have received notification about the new giving levels and benefits, effective October 1. Below are a few of the new offerings that will make Julia Mason Gray your membership experience even more entirely unexpected.
NEW BENEFIT Participate in My Museum Monday What would you do with time to yourself at the Art Center? Have you always wanted to play your violin in front of Automat? Want to read in the spiral staircase of the I. M. Pei building? Curious what the museum is like at midnight? My Museum Monday is an experience available to active members at all giving levels. The next application period opens January 2019.
NEW BENEFIT Art Excursions with the Art Center’s Member Travel Program For those with serious wanderlust, beginning in 2019, members are invited to partake in adventures near and far with our new travel program. From short day trips to international travel, we promise unforgettable visits to museums and artist studios, behind-the- scenes conversations with art experts, and great local cuisine. We can’t wait to share these unique experiences with you. In fact, if you have suggestions, please email me at [email protected] to share your insights.
14 | OCT NOV DEC 2018 Members at the new Ambassador level ($140) can simply show their validated membership card for free general admission, parking, and member discounts at gift shops, cafés, and special events at more than 1,000 participating museums in North America including many of the Midwest’s favorite museums.
ABOVE LEFT BEST VALUE gift shops, cafés, and special events at more Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Extend your membership benefits to than 1,000 participating museums in North Wendell Castle exhibition museums nationwide America. Midwest museum participants Photo: Dana Anderson Have travel plans for the fall or winter? Join or include the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis,
ABOVE RIGHT renew at the Ambassador level ($140 annually) the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas Contemporary Art Museum or above to access the member reciprocal City, and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis benefit, a long-time favorite. Simply show your in St. Louis. Visit the Join+Give tab on the Amy Sherald, installation view, May 11– August 19, 2018. validated membership card for free general Art Center’s website for all reciprocal Photo: Dusty Kessler. admission, parking, and member discounts at member museums.
BELOW Walker Art Center Minneapolis Installation view of I Am You, You Are Too, Walker Art Center, 2018 Photo: Bobby Rogers for Walker Art Center
View a list of all of the museums your Art Center membership gives you access to at desmoinesartcenter.org/ join-give
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ZINE ENTIRELY TAKEOVER kids
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 / 11 AM – 3 PM ENTIRELY Inspired by artist Neo Rauch’s graphic style, the Art Center will host its first Zine Takeover and KIDS HOLIDAY Zine Fair. A zine (short for magazine or fanzine) is a small-circulation, self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images, usually reproduced MARKET via photocopier. Zines are either the product of SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9 / 1 – 3 PM a single person or of a very small group, and are popularly made into physical prints for circulation. This family friendly event is part of the Des Moines Local zine makers will have the chance to sell, Art Center’s Entirely Kids programming, which swap, and showcase their publications from creates events, classes, and experiences designed 11 am – 3 pm in the lobby. The day will feature to engage families and foster a passion for the live music and a cash bar for guests to enjoy while museum in our youngest guests. they support local artists.
This daylong festive event is designed to ZINE MAKERS CAN SIGN UP NOW get the entire family in the holiday spirit. FOR A TABLE SLOT ON THE ART CENTER WEBSITE. ■ Studios will be abuzz with art projects that The submission process will be open through are sure to inspire. October 18. Accepted artists will be notified via email on October 19. ■ Guests will have the chance to see the For more information about the event, museum collection in a whole new light with visit desmoinesartcenter.org. a holiday themed self-guided tour.
■ The lobby will feature artisans and vendors showcasing their handicrafts, and the Museum Shop will also be open.
■ Hot chocolate and cookies will be provided.
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CONSIDER THE ART CENTER FOR YOUR SPECIAL EVENT
We would be delighted to have you consider the Art Center’s architecturally stunning buildings and spaces for your next special event.
Holiday parties Business lunches Wedding receptions Birthday parties Showers Business meetings
Contact Community and Rental Events Manager Marti Payseur at [email protected] or call 515.271.0301.
17 | OCT NOV DEC 2018 DESMOINESARTCENTER.ORG | 17 DATES ANNA K. MEREDITH GALLERY CURATED BY LAURA BURKHALTER ALCHEMY TRANSFORMATIONS IN GOLD
ARTIST LECTURE Rachel Sussman Thursday, February 2 6:30 pm This lecture is supported by the Margaret Ann (Dudie) Ash Fund.
TANDEM GALLERY DIALOGUE with Laura Burkhalter and Jelena Bogdanovi Sunday, March 12 / 1:30 pm
ARTIST DISCUSSION with artists Luis Gispert, Charles Lindsay, and Curator Laura Burkhalter Thursday, March 30 6:30 pmHOLIDAY ReservationsLUNCH required WITH FRIENDS
The perfect place for a business lunch, holiday gathering, or coffee and something sweet. Enjoy fresh salads, sandwiches, pastas, homemade soups, and Rosie’s famous desserts. TUESDAY – SATURDAY 11 AM – 2 PM
Menu changes weekly.
View weekly menu at desmoinesartcenter.org.
chef’s palette 18 | DESART MOINES CENTER ART CENTER CAFÉ DESMOINESARTCENTER.ORG | 18 IN THE MUSEUM SHOP
MUSEUM STORE SUNDAY JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST MUSEUM STORE SUNDAY.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25
■ Museum stores all around the world will be celebrating and offering inspired shopping.
■ Enjoy coffee or a mimosa with pastries in the lobby.
■ Take advantage of free gift-wrapping.
■ Children can participate in an art activity in the lobby.
■ The first 25 shoppers through the door will receive a swag bag and every buyer will receive a gift.
MEMBER 25% discount for members* DOUBLE 10% discount for non-members*
DISCOUNT *Some exclusions apply WEEKENDS FRIDAY – SUNDAY NOVEMBER 9 – 11 AND DECEMBER 14 – 16
20% discount for members*
*Some exclusions apply
Shop proceeds always support the mission and programs of the Des Moines Art Center.
DESMOINESARTCENTER.ORG | 19 FROM DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT TIFFANY K. NAGEL SPINNER look think discuss engage create support
There are numerous ways to engage with the Art Center by attending exhibition openings, lectures, gallery dialogues, Entirely Kids programs or by taking a class. There are also numerous ways to support these programs —through membership, donations, or by making a planned gift. TIffany K. Nagel Spinner
hatever life stage you are in, it is a good idea to think about W and create an estate plan. National Estate Planning Awareness Week is October 15–21, and now is a good time to ensure that your estate wishes are clear. Your estate plan can be used to support charitable causes that matter most to you, such as access to the arts and art-based education at the Des Moines Art Center. Members of the Edmundson Honor Society have included the Art Center in their estate plans or wills. These individuals are leaving a legacy that will enrich the arts and culture in Iowa for years to come. To learn more about various planned giving options, or to join the Edmundson Honor Society, please contact me at 515.271.0338 or [email protected].
20 | OCT NOV DEC 2018 MEMORIAL AND HONORARY GIFTS
These gifts were received between Susan and Jim McConnell Patricia Donhowe June 1, 2018 and August 31, 2018. Dian and William Meek Jenna and Jason Ekstrom
Diane J. Mombery-Odom James and Jillene Ferguson In Memory of Christine Hartoft and Garry K. Odom Lois and Louis Fingerman Megen O’Toole Polly Moore Jeff Fleming In Memory of Marilyn Hein Michael and Gail Pace and Carrie Marshburn-Fleming Jill Bassman Russell and Marilyn Parks Jean Gazzo Lauren Burgeson and Cooper Lewis Timothy and Rosemary Rahm E.J. Giovannetti FW Fitch Investment Corp Jane Robinette and Matt McCright Steven and Jan Golann James and Allison Fleming Laurayne Robinette Vicki Goldsmith Henry and Muffy Harmon Nelda Sampel Mary Gottschalk Rick Hickman Genese and R. T. Sweeney and Kent Zimmerman Joann Leachman Sheena and Frank Thomas Bonnie Green Jack and Georgianne Schreiber John and Joan Wetherell Marty Gross John and Nancy Vernon Jeanne White and David Sampel David Hale Eugene and Mary Weber Mary Wiese Deborah and David Hansen Douglas and Barbara Hein In Honor of In Memory of Gary McKay Mike Hendrickson Sarah Hubbell Hoff’s Birthday King and Ann Au Mark Hill and Amy Anderson Lois and Louis Fingerman Marie-Louise and Mark Kane Beverly Hinders Trost Deb Wiley and John Schmidt In Honor of Jim Hubbell’s Birthday Christine and Terry Hines Annabel Wimer Martin and Shelley Brody Ellen and James W. Hubbell, III Lois and Louis Fingerman In Memory of Esther Miller Robert and Dawn Hutchison Cynthia O’Brien and Mike Fitzpatrick Mary and Jon Doidge Dale J. Jansen Marie-Louise and Mark Kane In Memory of Margaret Jester In Honor of the Clark Tom and Linda Koehn Barbara M. Amend and Miles Mills Rose Garden Richard and Mary Lea Kruse Nancy Bone Caroline W. Levine Ira and Lisa Lacher Paul Bridgford and In Memory of Joe Heaps Nelson Peggy and Jim Leonardo Susan Koch Bridgford Joan Overton Jeanne Levitt Tom Buechele David and Katherine Sebastian Frederick and Joyce Lock and Jean Sampel Buechele Carol Stratemeyer William and Kristi Lozier Judy Campbell Joan Mannheimer Mary and Jerry Carris In Memory of Stanley Richards Karen Maresh Sally and Harry Downing Mary and Patrick Scanlan La Donna and Richard Matthes Paula Duncan Larry and Cathy Pitts Paul and Gloria Morris Julie Filean In Honor of Linda Solar Michael E. Myszewski Henry and Muffy Harmon Vivian Givant and Martha James Carolyn Hoard Susan Noland and Leslie Becker Gloria Hoffmann In Memory of David and Mary Jane Oakland Robert and Patricia Jester Dr. Lawrence F. Staples Cynthia O’Brien and Mike Fitzpatrick David and Gerrianne Jordan Mary Said Marlene and Gary Olson Marie-Louise and Mark Kane In Memory of Thomas Worthen Timothy and Rosemary Rahm Amy Kimberley Joel and Doris Abramson Gail Richards Greg and Linda LaMair Sigurd E. and Ann Anderson Colin and Cate Scanes Mike LaMair Susan Annept and Tim Benson Mary and Patrick Scanlan Richard and Mary Langdon James Autry and Sally Pederson Kelly Schuler and Rod Snavely Peggy and Jim Leonardo Jerry and Susan Burgess Dawn Taylor Caroline W. Levine Polly Clark and James Slife The Consortium Susan and Robert Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Kramer Darragh Sheena and Frank Thomas Frances Lindstrom Donna Davilla Mary Pearsall Torgoman Thomas and Jean Lyle James and Barbara Demetrion Toni and Timothy Urban Carolyn Lynner and Keith Thornton Nena Denman Kay Ward Kristine Mahon Jacqueline Devine Annabel Wimer
DESMOINESARTCENTER.ORG | 21 For more information on these events / exhibitions / classes CALENDAR visit desmoinesartcenter.org.
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Artist Lecture + Books + Blankets Books + Blankets * Public Reception 11 – 11:30 am 11 – 11:30 am Jen Bervin *Artist Lecture: 7 pm 4 SUNDAY
Wangechi Mutu *Mimosas + Art 7 pm 19 FRIDAY ARTNOIR Bedazzled Shoes Exhibition Opens 12:30 – 3:30 pm / $ 5 FRIDAY Iowa Artist 2018: Jen Bervin *Manhattan Short Film Film Festival 21 SUNDAY Neo Rauch: 6:30 pm *Art Spectrums Comrades and Companions Repeat of 9/30 program Session 1: noon – 1:30 pm 1:30 pm Session 2: 2 – 3:30 pm 7 SUNDAY 9 FRIDAY – 11 SUNDAY 25 THURSDAY Museum Shop *Mimosas + Art Member Double Block Print Cards *Get Dirty in the Studio 12:30 – 3:30 pm / $ Discount Weekend ARTNOIR Make Your Mark – Custom Cocktails *Manhattan Short 10 SATURDAY 5:30 – 8:30 pm / $ Film Festival *Yoga + Gallery Dialogue 1:30 pm Film Repeat of 9/30 and 10/5 programs 8:45 am Coco
Exhibition closes 6:30 pm Zine Takeover / Zine Fair This Woman’s Work Front lawn (in the case of 11 am – 3 pm inclement weather film will be shown in Levitt Auditorium) 11 SUNDAY 13 SATURDAY
*Yoga + Gallery Dialogue Tandem Gallery Dialogue 27 SATURDAY 8:45 am with Jeff Fleming and Family Workshops: * Peter Daniolos Kindergarten and up 15 MONDAY 1:30 pm with Adult SALON * Participatory Walk 47OO Clay Family Portraits Through the Pappajohn 15 THURSDAY
Sculpture Park 9:30 – 11:30 am / $ *Get Dirty in the Studio 6 – 7 pm SALON Date Night at the Museum 28 SUNDAY 47OO 5:30 – 8:30 pm / $ 17 WEDNESDAY Day of the Dead Baby + Me Drop-In Tour (Día de los Muertos) Film Screening + 11 am – noon Noon – 4 pm Director Remarks How to Steal a Chair, 2017 87 minutes; not rated 7 pm
Film still from How to Steal a Chair Film still from Through the Repellent Fence FILM October 5 and 7 Manhattan Film Festival
October 25 Coco
November 4 Neo Rauch: Comrades and Companions
November 15 How to Steal a Chair
November 25 Through the Repellent Fence
22 OCT NOV DEC 2018 For more information on these events / exhibitions / classes Events listed are FREE unless indicated with $ Art Center visit desmoinesartcenter.org. membership supports FREE programming 17 SATURDAY 9 SUNDAY *Family Workshops: Entirely Kids Holiday Market for all! Kindergarten and up with Adult 1 – 3 pm Printing and Painting Fabric 9:30 – 11:30 am / $ 13 THURSDAY * Get Dirty in the Studio 18 SUNDAY Mosaics MEMBERS *Art Spectrums 5:30 – 8:30 pm / $ STAY #ARTCENTERED. Session 1: noon – 1:30 pm REGISTER NOW! Session 2: 2 – 3:30 pm 14 FRIDAY – 16 SUNDAY Museum Shop 21 WEDNESDAY Member Double NEW MEMBERS Baby + Me Drop-In Tour Discount Weekend 11 am – noon SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 16 SUNDAY * Member Family Gallery Exploration: 25 SUNDAY *Art Spectrums 7 Ways to Save the Planet
Session 1: noon – 1:30 pm 1:30 – 2:30 pm Museum Store Sunday Session 2: 2 – 3:30 pm FREE for members at the Dual / Household Noon – 4 pm level and above Film Screening and 19 WEDNESDAY Recommended ages 4– 8 years Producer Remarks Baby + Me Drop-In Tour Through the Repellent Fence, 2017 11 am – noon 74 minutes; not rated 1:30 pm SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14 FREE * PRINT CLUB Commissioned Print DECEMBER Talk + Brunch DROP-IN 10:30 am 1 SATURDAY Contact [email protected] *Leslie Hall’s Yarn House Live TOURS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18 ARTNOIR 6:30 pm / $ PRINT CLUB TALK EVERY SATURDAY AT 1 PM * OLSON-LARSEN GALLERIES 2 SUNDAY Additional holiday season Archival Consciousness: *Mimosas + Art SALON drop-in tours will be offered The Care of Prints 47OO Cocoa Cups at 1 pm on these dates: 2 pm 12:30 – 3:30 pm / $ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16 6 THURSDAY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25 * PRINT CLUB Holiday Potluck Party Books + Blankets WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26 Private residence 11 am 4–7 pm THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27
8 SATURDAY FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28 ARTNOIR * Yoga + Gallery Dialogue SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23 8:45 am Meet in the lobby. * ART NOIR Light Writing 6 pm / Ages 21+ / $ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8 * ART NOIR Flashlight Tour 9 pm / Ages 21+ / $ RESERVATIONS / RSVPS / REGISTRATION FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7 An asterisk indicates that reservations, rsvps, or registration is required. * ART NOIR Holiday Studio Please visit desmoinesartcenter.org and click on EVENT RESERVATIONS 6 pm / Ages 21+ / $ or access the calendar from the homepage. * After completing your online registration, you should receive a SALON 47OO confirmation via e-mail. Please be sure to enter your e-mail address correctly to receive this confirmation. If you do not receive an e-mail WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 SALON 4700 Year-End Event shortly after registering, please call 515.277.4405 and we will gladly * 5:30 pm / $ check on your reservation. Guests on a given reservation list are guaranteed for the event; others are welcome to attend if space becomes available. NOT A MEMBER? JOIN TODAY at desmoinesartcenter.org. EDMUNDSON ART FOUNDATION, INC. Non-Profit 4700 GRAND AVENUE U.S. Postage DES MOINES, IOWA 50312 PAID Des Moines, IA Permit No. 2881 ENTIRELYUNEXPECTED
DES MOINES ART CENTER Thank you to members and sponsors who make our 515.277.4405 exhibitions, programs, Art Access, and FREE admission possible. www.desmoinesartcenter.org FREE ADMISSION FREE ADMISSION The Art Center is proud to continue to offer FREE ADMISSION to Art Center galleries, programs, and events,
unless otherwise noted. MUSEUM HOURS FREE ADMISSION IS SUPPORTED BY PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP AND ART CENTER MEMBERS. Tuesday / Wednesday / Friday / 11 am– 4 pm Thursday / 11 am– 9 pm Saturday / 10 am – 4 pm Sunday / Noon– 4 pm NEO RAUCH: Aus dem boden / From the Floor IS SUPPORTED BY Closed Monday
MUSEUM SHOP Open during regular museum hours. Members receive discounts every day. IOWA ARTIST 2018: JEN BERVIN IS SUPPORTED BY CHEF’S PALETTE - ART CENTER CAFÉ Lunch Tuesday – Saturday / 11 am – 2 pm
EXHIBITION RELATED PROGRAMMING SUPPORT FOR NEO RAUCH: Aus dem boden / CLASSES From the Floor and Iowa Artist 2018: Jen Bervin Artist Lecture + Public Reception is provided Studio art classes and workshops are by Humanities Iowa and the National Endowment for the Humanities. available for students of all ages. The views and opinions expressed by this program do not necessarily reflect those of Humanities Iowa or the Members receive 20% discounts National Endowment for the Humanities. on classes and workshops. Join today!
ART CENTER TOURS Free tours available year-round ARTIST LECTURE: WANGECHI MUTU This lecture is supported by the Margaret Ann (Dudie) Ash Fund, Humanities Iowa, and the National JOHN AND MARY PAPPAJOHN Endowment for the Humanities. The views and opinions expressed by this program do not necessarily reflect SCULPTURE PARK those of Humanities Iowa or the National Endowment for the Humanities. The sculpture park is open sunrise to midnight daily. Free tours available April – October DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS / DAY OF THE DEAD IS SUPPORTED BY MORE INFORMATION AT desmoinesartcenter.org
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All photos by Rich Sanders, Des Moines, unless otherwise noted. American Enterprise Farm Bureau Financial Services COVER Art4Moore Gardner and Florence Call Cowles Foundation Neo Rauch (German, born 1960) Margaret Brennan John Deere Falle, 1995 The Bright Foundation Randy E. McMullin Felt-tip pen and crayon on paper Casey’s General Stores, Inc. Meier Bernstein Foundation 8 3/8 x 5 5/8 inches Courtesy the artist, Galerie EIGEN + ART MEDIA SUPPORT IS PROVIDED BY Leipzig/Berlin and David Zwirner Business Publications © Neo Rauch, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York GENERAL ART CENTER SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
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