ASAP Pilots Online Instruction through Public Libraries

ASAP is partnering with Des Moines Public Libraries to provide an art activity for youth stuck at home this summer….

ASAP Hosts 12th Annual Summer Arts Camp—outdoors and masked!

ASAP is encouraging children to imagine life beyond COVID-19 by attending the 12th Annual Summer Arts Camp in Evelyn K….

ASAP Pivots with COVID-19 Nonprofit Adaptation Grant

The Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines has been a pillar upon which organizations have leaned through the COVID-19 crisis….

ASAP Programs Sidelined by COVID-19

The global pandemic has sent students home from schools and canceled nearly all in-person programming in 2020, and ASAP has…

ASAP Video Featured on dsm Culture Cast

At the invitation of Bravo Greater Des Moines, ASAP produced a short video for dsm magazine’s online series, Culture Cast,…

ASAP Hosts Arts Outreach

While many ASAP leaders were at the Bravo Greater Des Moines gala, ASAP’s outreach work kept marching on, with the…

ASAP Receives Spotlight Award at Bravo Gala

ASAP was a featured organization at Bravo Greater Des Moines’ 2020 Gala, which more than 1,500 people attended to celebrate…

ASAP Remembers Dr. King at Forest Ave Library Event

ASAP Teaching Artist Jill Wells designed and led a community art project as part of the Forest Avenue Branch of…

ASAP Continues Work on DMPS Community Partners Equity Team

For the past two years, ASAP’s Executive Director Michelle Bolton King has participated on Des Moines Public Schools’ Community Partners…

ASAP Storytelling Program Culminates with Veterans Day Student Performance

ASAP piloted a new storytelling program in fall 2019, in partnership with Cowles Montessori (DMPS) and the City of Windsor…

ASAP Annual Report 2018–19