Creative Kid's Zone

The Des Moines Arts Festival is proud to present the Bank of America Creative Kid's Zone. The Bank of America Creative Kid's Zone features numerous interactive arts activities including the GuideOne Insurance Interactive Mural. Check back here for a complete listing of arts activities at the 2008 Des Moines Arts Festival.

Art Projects

Interactive Mural
Join GuideOne Insurance and the Des Moines Art Center as the Festival creates two more billboard-sized interactive murals featuring The Hour of Tea by Frederick Carl Frieseke and Autumn, New Hampshire by Maurice Prendergast. Thousands of people will contribute their personal touch to recreating these masterpieces of modern art! Participants will transfer their own interpretation of a section of these works of art onto a canvas that will be installed into a billboard-sized frame. Guests can watch these giant murals come together, literally piece-by-piece, over the course of the three days of the Festival.

Public Art Project
Kemin Industries and Nathan Weeks Middle School are partnering with the Des Moines Arts Festival to create and produce a science realted public art project that will be completed by guests of the Festival. The art piece will be a project of the 8th grade students and when completed installed on the grounds of the school. The 3-month project began on April 9 when Dr. Chris Nelson, Kemin Worldwide President, and Kemin Health scientist Sheila Dana visited Weeks for a presentation and lesson on lutein. Following the lesson, the students will conceptualize the art project, with the goal of creating a visual, artistic representation of the science-related topic. The base structure will then be transported to the Festival where Festival guests will participate in completing the project through an interactive art activity. The final masterpiece will be installed at Weeks Middle School, and unveiled to students at a cermony when the school year resumes in the fall of 2008.