Building community through the arts, while building an arts community

Assistant Curator Jared Ledesma speaks of the Des Moines Art Center's many approaches to community-building. One current and powerful example: Ledesma's award-winning exhibit Queer Abstraction leading away from museum-for-some, to art center-for-all.

(Top: Image courtesy of the Des Moines Art Center; photographer: Brittany Brooke Crow. Bottom left: Image courtesy of the Des Moines Art Center; photographer: Rich Sanders.)