Worldwide Exhibition Opportunities

Access Arts' ArtDeadline.Com
The art world's source for income and exhibition opportunities. A searchable database and magazine that lists local and national juried artist competitions, grants, call for submissions, art jobs, art festivals, residencies, fellowships & more.

Artshow.com
has extensive resources for artists and arts organizations: art shows & competitions, tips & tutorials, and a searchable directory of art workshops, classes & tours.

Access Arts' ArtDeadline.Com

The art world's source for income and exhibition news. A searchable database and magazine that lists local, national and international juried exhibitions, competitions, grants, art jobs, percent-for-arts, art in public RFP's, festivals, residencies, internships, & much more... Also see comprehensive artist support and representation services.

Resources For Artists

Iowa Arts Council
Iowa Arts Council's listing of upcoming art events, call for entries, future workshops, etc. Updated monthly.

Metro Arts Alliance
Enriches the quality of life in Greater Des Moines by connecting people to the arts through programming, communication and support of artists and arts organizations.

Big, Red and Shiny
AN ARTS JOURNAL FOR BOSTON, CAMBRIDGE AND BEYOND is what it says on its splash page, but our members have found it useful (though we'll take Corntown over Beantown any day.)

ArtScuttlebutt Discussion Forum
"Artists Talking to Artists, brought to you by ArtCalendar magazine" Message board for artists. Good information and fair amount of traffic. Can usually get a response on a post the same day.

CafePress.com
CafePress.com is a company that lets you design and sell products with your artwork on them. No upfront costs. They handle product manufacture, payment processing, and customer service. You set your own retail price. There are no minimum order requirements.

Modern Postcards
Recommended by an EVAC member: 'highly recommend this company for getting good and cheap postcards made for show announcements.'

Art Supply Vendors

The Art Store
Des Moines' premier art supply store and one of our community outreach sponsors. Fine selection of art supplies, writing instruments and unusual gifts.

Graphic Chemical & Ink Co.
Manufacturers of etching and litho inks and a great distributor of supplies, including a very wide selection of paper. They're in Chicago. Awesome.

Daniel Smith
An extensive catalog of all art supplies, and also a manufacturer of inks.

McClain's Printmaking Supplies
Dedicated to the Art and Artists of Relief Printmaking

Jerry's Artarama
Discount art supplies online - from airbrushes to picture frames! Excellent values in brushes, canvases, paints and other art materials online.

Utrecht Art Supplies
Manufacturers of fine artists paints, mediums and linens since 1949. Today, Utrecht still mills its own premium artists' paints and gesso at their Brooklyn, NY plant, making them unique among American artists supply companies.

R&F Handmade Paints
Manufacturer of encaustic paint and pigment sticks. Excellent source for information on encaustic paints.

General Interest

Digital Des Moines
Digital Des Moines is Central Iowa's Source for news, entertainment, music, restaurants and much more!

Firehouse Yoga
Connect the mind, body and spirit

Performing Arts

Vaudeville Mews
Description: A great site in a great location.

Repertory Theatre of Iowa
Independent non-profit theater company providing professional venues for emerging and working theater people in Greater Des Moines and Statewide.

Resources for Photographers

The Luminous Landscape
The web's most comprehensive site devoted to the art of landscape, nature and documentary photography using digital as well as traditional image processing techniques.

Film

48 hour Film Project
Internationally known independent film competition held annually. A Des Moines film maker won in 2005.

Museums

The Des Moines Art Center
One of the Midwest's finest and most respected collections of modern works, wherein reside some of the best known paintings and sculptures by Picasso, Giacometti, Hopper and Bacon among others.

Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago
One of the great art museums of the world, the Art Institute of Chicago presents a collection spanning 5,000 years of artistic expression. Possibly the midwest's greatest cultural treasure.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO is a world-class encyclopedic museum. Admission is always free.

The Figge Art Museum
The Figge Art Museum draws upon the rich history of the Davenport Museum of Art while setting new standards for cultural, social and economic development. The new facility provides unparalleled social, cultural and educational spaces for the community.

The MacNider Art Museum
The Charles H. MacNider Museum is a non-profit, municipally owned institution conceived in 1964 and opened by 1966 in Mason City, Iowa. Everything the Museum does is educational or aesthetic in nature centering around working with objects of art.

Galleries

Olson-Larsen Galleries
Olson-Larsen Galleries, established in 1979, is a contemporary gallery representing original artwork by 70 of the finest artists in the Midwest.

Moberg Studio Art Gallery
Moberg Studio Art Gallery. Specializing in showcasing regional contemporary fine art.

The Anderson Gallery
The Anderson Gallery, Drake University 25th and Carpenter Ave., Des Moines, Iowa

Karolyn Sherwood Gallery
Contemporary fine art works and prints from nationally and internationally known artists, as well exhibiting the cutting edge of Des Moines ' premier artists.

Artdive
Artdive gallery sells contemporary local and regional art and also features original oil painting and giclee reproductions by artist Christine Mullane.

Artist Residencies and Workshops

Bemis Center for Contemporary Art
The spirit and programs of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts are based on the conviction that exceptional talent deserves to be supported. Our practical commitment to this belief is achieved by providing well-equipped studio spaces, living accommodations and a monthly stipend to artists who are awarded residencies.

ART 316
Realizing that artists have historically been pioneers in downtowns across the United States, ART 316 serves as a catalyst to greater downtown Des Moines development. Because of its location as the southern anchor for the Court Avenue Historic Distric, this area has been identified in the Court Avenue Housing Study as an Arts District.

Torpedo Factory
The TFAC is one of the largest and most successful visual arts centers in the U.S. It is located in beautiful Old Town Alexandria just outside of Washington, D.C. on the docks of the Potomac River. A renovated former torpedo factory that was built after World War I, it now consists of three floors of artist studios, galleries, workshops, an art school, and an archaeology museum.

The GoggleWorks Center for the Arts
One of the largest art centers in the U.S. The GoggleWorks Center for the Arts serves as a true community arts and cultural resource center, bringing highly talented artists, local arts and cultural organizations, and the community at large together to enhance the vitality and bright possibilities of a city on the verge of artistic and cultural rebirth.