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Welcome to the
Waterloo Center for the Arts

Gallery Hours

Tuesday – Saturday | 10:00AM – 5:00PM & Sunday | 1:00 – 4:00PM

Exception of Holidays

Admission for all WCA galleries is free 

Current Exhibits
 

The Center collects Midwest Art, American Decorative Arts and International Folk Art, including
a significant collection of Mexican Folk Art and the worlds’ largest public collection of Haitian Art. Selections from our collection are always on display in one or several of our galleries at any given time. We also feature changing exhibits in five separate galleries throughout the building.
 

Painting depicting an abstracted ariel view of landscape with large plains of color, oranges and deep maroons, with smaller areas containing multiple colors overlaid with texture.

Greg Hargreaves: Twin Passions, Art and the Outdoors: My Journey from Landscape to Abstraction 

Beaded textile with red satin ribbon lining, depicting centralized figure surrounded by purple, red, blue and black patterns and details.

Collecting Light: 
Gifts from the Gessen Family

Colorful painting with abstract depictions of people in a concentric design around a central circle with abstract trees with a night sky painted in the center circle. A white box sits on top of the photo with text on top that says, “Memories of Woodie Long”. There is a button under the text that takes the user to the gallery information.
White ceramic wreath adorned with white and red tipped tulips gathered on the top left and a few reaching over the top right side of the wreath.

Grief is the Price of Love 

Mexican folk art painting in bright vivid colors. There are many colorful shapes and yellow flowers on green stems that surround a central figure of a person painted in green with a purple head. A white box sits on top of the photo with text on top that says, “Cielo Y Tierra: Mexican Painting Traditions”. There is a button under the text that takes the user to the gallery information.

Cielo Y Tierra: Mexican Painting Traditions

Broad, dynamic brushstrokes and layered colors of blues, purples, and golds create an abstract grid of 3 squares by 3 squares.

American Abstract Artist
Paul Bland 

An image of a medium-sized Mexican folk art statue of a jaguar that is covered with very intricate traditional patterns and design work. The shapes and patterns are created in mostly white and black on the belly of the jaguar. The top side of the jaguar has patterns in teal and a light brown. A white box sits on top of the photo with text on top that says, “Viendo La Vida”. There is a button under the text that takes the user to the gallery information.
An image of a traditional colorfully beaded Haitian flag with a woman in the center with a flowing headpiece that is adorned with voodoo symbolism. The background of the flag has large and small clusters of sigils and other representations of deities. o A white box sits on top of the photo with text on top that says, “Haitian Art: Forged from a Vibrant Land and a Powerful People”. There is a button under the text that takes the user to the gallery information.

Haitian Art | Forged from a Vibrant Land & a Powerful People

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An image of an iron pounded 2D sculpture. The sculpture is of a humanoid figure with wings crouched on top of a horse-like figure underneath. The sculpture has many small cutout details to represent feathers within the wings. o A white box sits on top of the photo with text on top that says, “Fe Koupe: Haitian Iron Works”. There is a button under the text that takes the user to the gallery information.

Fe Koupe:

Haitian Iron Works

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What's Happening?
 

Artist Receptions

Scott Robert Hudson
Gallery Talk & Opening Reception
Thursday, September 17 | 5:30-7:30pm

Judy Bales & Wendy Stegall
Gallery Talks & Opening Reception
Friday, December 11 | 5:30-7:30pm

Visit the Phelps
Youth Pavilion 

Children's Museum Hours - View the Visit Page for Holiday Closures

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Tuesday - Saturday | 10:00AM - 5:00PM & Sunday | 1:00 - 5:00PM
 

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