Join Jonathan Ramsey, DuMA’s associate architect from BNIM, on an architecture tour of three groundbreaking cultural sites in Des Moines. First, tour the Tom and Ruth Harkin Center with Director Matt Reed and learn about BNIM’s design for the Harkin Institute for Public Policy & Citizen Engagement at Drake University. The Harkin Center opened in 2020, thirty years after the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and serves as model of inclusive design and citizen engagement.

From there, we’ll meet up with Senior Curator (and 2021 DuMA

Biennial Juror) Laura Burkhalter to tour the Des Moines Art Center’s buildings

designed by the twentieth-century masters Eliel Saarinen, I. M. Pei, and

Richard Meier. We’ll also visit the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park,

which features work by more than twenty of the world’s most celebrated

artists—including Keith Haring, Jaume Plensa, Ai Weiwei, and Yayoi Kusama.

The cost includes roundtrip bus travel, admissions, lunch, and tours.