Guests of the Art Center can pick up a self-guided tour highlighting a selection of works in the collection by artists who fled their native countries under duress and have gone on to create art that enriches and expands our human capacities for growth, curiosity, and empathy.
Click here for more information.Image: Ana Mendieta (American, born Cuba,1948 - 1985)
Untitled, from the "Silueta" series
Date: 1977 unique lifetime color photograph mounted on board documenting silueta with fire and gunpowder, Iowa 12 5/8 × 19 3/8 in. (32.1 × 49.2 cm.)
Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Purchased with funds from Rose F. Rosenfield, 1997.77
