Art Week Des Moines2020

This lunchtime event - part performance, part cultural equity training - will be led by social justice drag queen and JEDI trainer Beatrice Thomas from Authentic Arts and Media. As their fierce and fabulous drag persona, Black Benatar, they will explore the role bias plays in our lives, how privilege impacts us, and how we can use it to create positive change in the world. Jonny Stax will gather ingredients from this performance to lead people in making potions throughout the week. This virtual performance promises to be fun, interactive, and stimulating as we journey together toward creative justice and equitable love.

Join us this summer as we learn about bias and make potions to transform Iowa’s artistic practices and creative communities to be more just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive (JEDI). We are kicking off a virtual potionmaking process at Des Moines Art Week during lunchtime sessions and continue throughout the summer. Creative Iowans will be encouraged to make and share potions leading up to the Iowa Arts Summit August 7.

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This session is sponsored by the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, as a preview for the Iowa Arts Summit on August 7, 2020. The summit brings together artists, filmmakers, creative entrepreneurs, non-profit professionals and community leaders for a day of networking, learning and celebrating the arts in Iowa. Learn more at iowaculture.gov.

Hannah Claire is a freelance artist working and living in Iowa. Art has been a huge passion of mine for about as long as I can remember. Claire likes to create vibrant and unique pieces. During this live stream, she will be painting a vivid abstract mermaid swimming through the ocean.

Watch on Instagram

or watch on artweekTV

Building off of Black Benatar’s performance, we will hold daily potionmaking sessions to blend ingredients from their JEDI stories with ingredients from our own stories. Uncle JoJo’s recipe Potions for HumanityTM engages people in brewing their own healing tinctures through storytelling, power sharing, and art making. We are calling all creative Iowans to make potions that conjure the powers we need to adapt toward more JEDI artistic practices and creative communities. We are beginning with bias as we awakening to new understandings of the world. Each day we will explore one component of JEDI transformation - Justice on Tuesday, Equity on Wednesday, Diversity on Thursday, and Inclusion on Friday.

Creative Iowans will be encouraged to make and share potions leading up to the Iowa Arts Summit August 7. Learn More.

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This session is sponsored by the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, as a preview for the Iowa Arts Summit on August 7, 2020. The summit brings together artists, filmmakers, creative entrepreneurs, non-profit professionals and community leaders for a day of networking, learning and celebrating the arts in Iowa. Learn more at iowaculture.gov.

DRAWING CLUB All ages - Wednesdays @ 10 am

Live on instagram (rararamonaml), then later edited and put on YouTube.
To JOIN: bring yourself, a pen and something to draw with! A quick lesson inspired by years of teaching kids drawing classes.

Building off of Black Benatar’s performance, we will hold daily potionmaking sessions to blend ingredients from their JEDI stories with ingredients from our own stories. Uncle JoJo’s recipe Potions for HumanityTM engages people in brewing their own healing tinctures through storytelling, power sharing, and art making. We are calling all creative Iowans to make potions that conjure the powers we need to adapt toward more JEDI artistic practices and creative communities. We are beginning with bias as we awakening to new understandings of the world. Each day we will explore one component of JEDI transformation - Justice on Tuesday, Equity on Wednesday, Diversity on Thursday, and Inclusion on Friday.

Creative Iowans will be encouraged to make and share potions leading up to the Iowa Arts Summit August 7. Learn More.

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This session is sponsored by the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, as a preview for the Iowa Arts Summit on August 7, 2020. The summit brings together artists, filmmakers, creative entrepreneurs, non-profit professionals and community leaders for a day of networking, learning and celebrating the arts in Iowa. Learn more at iowaculture.gov.

Allysha Cora Jean Cason of Flyest Hobo U Know will be live painting a new piece. Tune in on Facebook and check out Cason's work.

Watch the live stream on the Flyest Hobo You Know Facebook Page

or watch on artweekTV

Artists of all disciplines and skill levels are invited to a free, virtual life drawing session. 
 
 We will send an official video stream link on the day of the event to everyone who RSVP’s as “going.” For those without a Facebook page, you may RSVP by email: brittanybrookecrow@gmail.com
 
 Disclaimer: by RSVP’ing as “going,” you acknowledge this event features nudity and you are 18+. 
 
 Presented by Arcadian Tattoo
Co-hosted by Brittany Brooke Crow + Taylor Ross
 
//This event is part of Art Week Des Moines, a week-long celebration of local art in Central Iowa.//

Facebook Event

Tune into Karen Lewis working in the studio. Suggest things for her to build and see how she responds to the pressure. Lewis is a cardboard master, but that doesn't mean failure doesn't occur.

Topic: LIVE FAIL w/ Karen Lewis
Time: Jun 25, 2020 10:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/2235034113?pwd=cHAzaVBaQnYrdm1HMlZXQnIwZld2QT09

Meeting ID: 223 503 4113
Password: art4ever

or

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In these series of four, 15 minute videos, Alan Jacob shows the process he takes to salvage as much as he can from found rolls of film. Jacob develops two rolls of film, one roll from the 1950s and another from pre 1931. Watch to see the technique and see what images are revealed after they are developed.

Watch on YouTube:
Saving Found Film Part 1
Saving Found Film Part 2
Saving Found Film Part 3
Saving Found Film Part 4

Or watch on artweekTV

Building off of Black Benatar’s performance, we will hold daily potionmaking sessions to blend ingredients from their JEDI stories with ingredients from our own stories. Uncle JoJo’s recipe Potions for HumanityTM engages people in brewing their own healing tinctures through storytelling, power sharing, and art making. We are calling all creative Iowans to make potions that conjure the powers we need to adapt toward more JEDI artistic practices and creative communities. We are beginning with bias as we awakening to new understandings of the world. Each day we will explore one component of JEDI transformation - Justice on Tuesday, Equity on Wednesday, Diversity on Thursday, and Inclusion on Friday.

Creative Iowans will be encouraged to make and share potions leading up to the Iowa Arts Summit August 7. Learn More.

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This session is sponsored by the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, as a preview for the Iowa Arts Summit on August 7, 2020. The summit brings together artists, filmmakers, creative entrepreneurs, non-profit professionals and community leaders for a day of networking, learning and celebrating the arts in Iowa. Learn more at iowaculture.gov.

Building off of Black Benatar’s performance, we will hold daily potionmaking sessions to blend ingredients from their JEDI stories with ingredients from our own stories. Uncle JoJo’s recipe Potions for HumanityTM engages people in brewing their own healing tinctures through storytelling, power sharing, and art making. We are calling all creative Iowans to make potions that conjure the powers we need to adapt toward more JEDI artistic practices and creative communities. We are beginning with bias as we awakening to new understandings of the world. Each day we will explore one component of JEDI transformation - Justice on Tuesday, Equity on Wednesday, Diversity on Thursday, and Inclusion on Friday.

Creative Iowans will be encouraged to make and share potions leading up to the Iowa Arts Summit August 7. Learn More.

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This session is sponsored by the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, as a preview for the Iowa Arts Summit on August 7, 2020. The summit brings together artists, filmmakers, creative entrepreneurs, non-profit professionals and community leaders for a day of networking, learning and celebrating the arts in Iowa. Learn more at iowaculture.gov.