“You invent your own game –and then you push it forward” -Melvin Edwards, N.Y. Times as a change agent. Joyce Scott’s lecture was organized by the Des Moines Art Center. Joyce Scott was both inspiring and educational. “With Edmundson Art Foundation funds, the Art Center has purchased a major sculpture by the artist Joyce Scott, entitled “Mistaken Identity” (2018). This work by the MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient exemplifies her approach to art making, which often merges traditional handicraft with potent social commentary. Here, she combines beads and Murano glass forms in a seated figure with horns and a tail holding fire in its hands. Through this sculpture and others, Scott references social justice issues, such as gun violence, racial profiling, abuse of women, and sex trafficking.” On your next visit to the Des Moines Art Center ask to view the nearly two dozen works on view by African-American and African artists - works from artists Joyce Scott, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, David Hammons, Betye Saar, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems and Henry Ossawa Tanner -- several featured previously in the Des Moines Urban Experience. Readers are encouraged to explore for themselves and be inspired by the artworks currently on view by African and African American artists from the Des Moines Art Center’s collection. Take the family to the Des Moines Art Center and check it out! For more information- www. desmoinesartcenter.org We currently feature originals, prints, sculptures and framed artwork of numerous African American and Iowa artists in the gallery. To see some of the prior artists featured visit www. westdesmoines.thegreatframeup.com and our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ tgfuwdmiowa. Please follow us on Pinterest www.pinterest.com/tgfuwdm tgfuwdm. and Twitter @ About The Great Frame Up The Great Frame Up is a custom picture framer, offering more than 1,000 custom frames, mat styles, ready to hang framed art and local artwork. The West Des Moines location of The Great Frame Up opened in 2005 and is located at 5515 Mills Civic Parkway in the West Glen Town Center and is open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 10- 6pm; Thursday 10- 8pm & Saturday 10- 5pm. The next exhibit at The Great Frame Up Features Local Artist: Kristie Burns & Andraya Stender: Open House Thurs., Oct. 3th 5-8pm; Exhibit thru Nov. 1st. October 2019 The URBAN EXPERIENCE 11
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