# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Conversation with Artist Elle Pérez and Associate Curator Ashton Cooper
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 12 Sep, 2026 at 01:30 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: The Des Moines Art Center invites visitors to join artist Elle Pérez in conversation with Associate Curator Ashton Cooper. The two will discuss and dive into the body of photographs presented in the exhibition “Elle Pérez: La Despedida,” on view in the A. H. Blank Gallery through November 29, 2026.

Elle Pérez is an artist working across photography, collage, and moving image. Their work depicts intimate moments, emotional exchanges, and visceral details within the love and violence of everyday life.

The artist’s 2025 series “La Despedida (the world is always ending, the world is always again beginning)” encompasses photographs taken in the gardens of two very different sites: Pérez’s grandfather’s backyard in Puerto Real, Puerto Rico, and Impressionist painter Claude Monet’s home in Giverny, France. In the eleven photographs on view, Pérez deploys close cropping, zooming in on expanses of blooming flowers, lace curtains, and breaking waves.

Free; registration required. https://tickets.desmoinesartcenter.org/?tab=Events&mode=Event&program=&view_date=&period=Weekly&event=1784735603007x827637760730595300

Image: Artist Elle Pérez. Photo: KL Mays.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/des-moines/conversation-with-artist-elle-pérez-and-associate-curator-ashton-cooper/200030547307055
- **Event Categories**: art, nonprofit, exhibitions
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 32

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Des Moines
- **state**: IA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Des Moines Art Center
- **lat**: 41.58390637386
- **long**: -93.68119032355
- **full address**: Des Moines Art Center, 4700 Grand Ave,Des Moines, Iowa, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Conversation with Artist Elle Perez and Associate Curator Ashton Cooper being held?
  - **A:** Conversation with Artist Elle Perez and Associate Curator Ashton Cooper takes place on Sat, 12 Sep, 2026 at 01:30 pm to Sat, 12 Sep, 2026 at 01:30 pm at Des Moines Art Center, 4700 Grand Ave,Des Moines, Iowa, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Conversation with Artist Elle Perez and Associate Curator Ashton Cooper?
  - **A:** Conversation with Artist Elle Perez and Associate Curator Ashton Cooper is organized by Des Moines Art Center.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Conversation with Artist Elle Perez and Associate Curator Ashton Cooper is ideal for art lovers, trade professionals, collectors, and exhibition enthusiasts exploring the latest in their field. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Des Moines, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Conversation with Artist Elle Perez and Associate Curator Ashton Cooper sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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