THE ART CENTER SUPPORTS AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTIST SEPTEMBER FEATURE EL ANATSUI GHANAIAN, BORN 1944 BASIN 2012 FOUND ALUMINUM AND COPPER WIRE Purchased with funds from the Coffin Fine Arts Trust; Nathan Emory Coffin Collection of the Des Moines Art Center, the Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc., the Ellen Pray Maytag Madsen Sculpture Acquisition Fund, Harriet S. Macomber in memory of Vincent and Genevieve Evans Starzinger, Melva Bucksbaum, and Kathy and Herb Eckhouse, 2014.8 The Des Moines Art Center is proud to have dozens of works by Black artists in its permanent collection. Because these works live here in Des Moines, visitors to the museum can come in any time (our admission is free) and see amazing examples of art by Black artists from Des Moines, the United States, and around the globe. I’m Laura Burkhalter, Curatorial Manager at the Art Center, and am writing to introduce you to a work by Ghanaian/Nigerian artist El Anatsui that is on view now in the Pei building of the museum.
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