The Des Moines Art Center has been awarded a grant of $18,000 from the Iowa Arts & Culture Emergency Relief Fund*, administered by the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs. Grant funds will support general operating costs of facilities, including utilities and maintenance expenses,
Read More →The Covid-19 pandemic persists. Find ways to culturally and creatively continue explore. Please be safe and wise if you have to venture into public areas. Respect how you can protect others. – John Busbee for The Culture Buzz Quote of the Week “Pain and suffering, they are a secret.
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Posted June 30, 2020in Stray Thoughts
There’s so much anxiety going around in Iowa City now, and Maalox could easily qualify as the official summer beverage. There’s anxiety over what the fall semester will look like at the University of Iowa, with coronavirus still a fact of life in the community and enforcement of social distancing
Read More →“Toward A Universal Suffrage: African American Women in Iowa and the Vote for All,” an exhibition that highlights and honors the contributions of African Americans to the women’s suffrage movement, opens at the State Historical Society of Iowa Museum on Tuesday, June 30. The exhibition will be on view at
Read More →The City of Johnston and the Central Iowa Water Trails Incubator are pleased to announce a new partnership with an outfitter, Quarry Springs Outfitters, to offer kayak rentals at the recently opened NW 70th Avenue access point along Beaver Creek. “This is another important step in better connecting the City
Read More →A new partnership between the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) and Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) aimed at helping location-bound students in Des Moines earn a college degree through UNI received a $1 million boost this week thanks to the generosity of UNI alumni. The “UNI at DMACC” 2+2
Read More →When the Des Moines Art Center reopens on July 7, the John Brady Print Gallery will feature Landscapes in Watercolor, a selection of more than two dozen watercolors from the museum’s collections, created between 1885 and 1980. Organized by Associate Curator Jared Ledesma, these works reveal the unique ability of
Read More →The Covid-19 pandemic persists. Find ways to culturally and creatively continue explore. Please be safe and wise if you have to venture into public areas. Respect how you can protect others. – John Busbee for The Culture Buzz Quotes of the Week “If serving is below you, then leadership
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July 4th – America’s Hope.
Americans hope they will never be bullied by a police officer. A man or woman with a badge and a gun can be an intimidating figure. If a cop pulls you over and bullies you, what can you do? Americans are at the mercy of bad cops. Who hasn’t been
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