Jeff Fleming has been at the Des Moines Art Center since 1999. He has moved up through the ranks at the center, starting as a curator and moving from senior curator, to deputy director of programs, and ultimately to the Director for the center. Among his major accomplishments are ending each year as acting director and director with a budget surplus, adding significant works of art to the permanent collections, increasing attendance appreciably, and working toward the completion of a $34,000,000 comprehensive campaign to increase endowment, capital, and general operating funds through 2008. Fleming graduated from East Carolina University with a painting major and art history minor, and went on to receive his master’s degree in painting from the Pratt Institute in New York.