DES MOINES, IA May 25, 2018 – The Des Moines Arts Festival® is honored to announce professional visual artist Chris Dahlquist as the 2018 Des Moines Arts Festival Featured Artist. Her work, “Mile Marker 641,” was unveiled at last night’s Preview Celebration at the Des Moines Art Center and will
Read More →DES MOINES, IA May 23, 2018 – The Des Moines Arts Festival and Prairie Meadows Racetrack & Casino are proud to announce the 28 non-profit organizations that will participate in the award-winning Prairie Meadows Community Outreach Program June 22-24, 2018. “This program provides the opportunity for families to have some
Read More →DES MOINES, IOWA (May 23, 2018) – An inNOVAtive night was had at the 2018 American Marketing Association’s NOVA Awards on Thursday, May 10. The Iowa AMA chapter hosted scores of local marketing experts for the 13th annual awards show at Curate located in the Des Moines, Iowa, East Village.
Read More →DES MOINES, IA May 22, 2018 – Des Moines Arts Festival® is pleased to announce the Polk County Board of Supervisors as the official sponsor of the Festival’s award-winning volunteer program. Polk County provided the Des Moines Arts Festival with a $35,000 community development grant to underwrite the program, which
Read More →Urbandale, Iowa – Urbandale Parks and Recreation will soon have a new picnic table and bench at Lions Park made out of recycled materials, courtesy of the Build with Bags program. The plastic bag recycling program, being led by the Iowa Grocery Industry Association, announced recently that Urbandale Parks and
Read More →Des Moines, May 21, 2018—Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa (BGCCI) and their partners at Drake University are breaking ground today, Monday, May 21, on the future Gregory & Suzie Glazer Burt Club site—only the third Boys & Girls Club in the nation to be located on a private
Read More →(DES MOINES, IOWA) The 2018 Take a Slice Out of Hunger Golf Classic takes place on Monday, June 4 at Waveland Golf Course, just days ahead of the 2018 Principal Charity Classic. The timing of the two events is no coincidence as organizers of the Take a Slice Out of
Read More →DES MOINES, IA – Today, Hoyt Sherman Place announced its participation in the ninth annual Blue Star Museums, a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 museums across America to offer free admission to the nation’s active duty
Read More →May 16, 2018 – Summer is back and so are Food Truck Fridays. Come enjoy delicious food from a variety of food trucks, cold beverages and live music. Food Truck Friday is a family friendly event so bring the kids and some comfy blankets and chairs. We look forward to
Read More →DES MOINES – Originally known as the Hippee Building, the Midland Building in Des Moines has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. Today’s announcement comes from the State Historic Preservation Office, which oversees the National Register of Historic Places program in Iowa in conjunction with the National
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