Art Moves Iowa

Art Moves Iowa Offers pop-up mobile art experiences in Iowa to activate spaces and bring people together.

Art Moves Iowa serves as the vehicle to attract, engage and interact with your community.

New Project Alert! Over the past few years, we’ve been caught in a relentless state of heartbreak, suffering, injustice ...
06/07/2022

New Project Alert!

Over the past few years, we’ve been caught in a relentless state of heartbreak, suffering, injustice and despair. It’s too much to carry, and yet we can’t let it consume us. We all need a way to cope so we’ve created a space where you can write about your pain and sorrow or your hopes and dreams for this world. We’ve designed an interactive experience where you can choose the ending of your words – to plant them, burn them, repair them, wash them away – to feel the lightness of letting go if only for a moment.

We invite you to make anonymous contributions and explore our exhibition space in a cargo trailer outside Mainframe Studios on Tuesday, June 21 at 5pm and outside The University Library Café on Thursday, June 23 at 5:30pm.

These free events are part of ArtWeek, and everyone is welcome to participate. Please join us in this unique and uplifting community experience and be a part of creating a portable monument of collective healing.

Brought to you by Mallory Abreu and Julia Franklin as Part 2 of the ongoing Becoming Installation. Support for part of this project is provided by the Iowa Arts Council through an American Rescue Plan Grant.


Y’all! We have a trailer! Phase 1 of Art Moves Iowa is now complete. We can’t wait to transform this beauty so we can br...
12/04/2021

Y’all! We have a trailer! Phase 1 of Art Moves Iowa is now complete. We can’t wait to transform this beauty so we can bring pop up art events to special places in Iowa this spring.

What would you like us to bring to you?

So thankful to the NEA and IAC for providing funding to get artists back to work. Arts funding matters! Also super grateful for Tricia Kubicek for making this happen.

Photo description: Black enclosed trailer being pulled by a blue SUV with inside view of the trailer and accessible ramp.

Today is a big day! It’s artist Julia Franklin here, and I am officially launching Art Moves Iowa, a project designed to...
07/11/2021

Today is a big day! It’s artist Julia Franklin here, and I am officially launching Art Moves Iowa, a project designed to make art experiences portable.

Follow this project as it evolves as we create pop-up art in unexpected places throughout the state of Iowa. And let me know if you’d like to have a special program come to you!

Special thanks goes to the and the for funding a Resilience grant that will make this project possible! And thank you to the talented Zane Vredenburg for the logo and concept designs.

I’m now on the lookout for a 5x8 or 6x10 enclosed cargo trailer. Reach out if you have leads or ideas. Thanks for everyone’s continued support. I can’t wait to collaborate with other artists and partner with communities to make art memories!

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900 Keosauqua Way
Des Moines, IA
50309

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