The May/June dsm Magazine was unveiled last night at Gilbert & Cook in West Des Moines.

You can read the full issue here.

Here are links to three of our favorite articles: 

Ray of Hope: Forty years ago, Gov. Robert D. Ray changed the lives of as many as 10,000 southeast Asian refugees by welcoming them to Iowa, despite skeptics who maintained the state was too racially homogenous to accept such a large minority population. In recognition of the social contributions of those refugees and their families, and in honor of the public servant who stood firm in his decision to take them in, a group is working to rehabilitate a unique local landmark that bears Ray’s name and commemorates that chapter in the state’s history.

Miffy Moves to Town: One of Des Moines’ newest residents hasn’t stopped crying since she got here. It’s nothing personal, just the way she was made—or sculpted—by artist Tom Sachs. The sculpture, “Miffy Fountain,” installed downtown near the library by the Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation, is based on a well-known character in a series of children’s books that have been popular with kids since the first Miffy story was published in 1955.