People interacting with large Sculpture on display

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

Click to Learn More About Time Again

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

Click to Learn More About Recent Work

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.

Memories of Woodie Long

Click to Learn More About Memories of Woodie Long

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

Click to Learn More About Milton Wolsky

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

Click to Learn More About Cielo Y Tierra

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

Click to Learn More About Boundless Folds

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.

Viendo La Vida

Click to Learn More About Viendo La Vida

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

Click to Learn More About Haitian Art

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

Click to Learn More About Fe Coupe

View Upcoming Exhibitions

View Upcoming Galleries

What's Happening?

Artist Receptions

Upcoming receptions to be announced

Visit the Phelps
Youth Pavilion

Visit PYP Page

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

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

3rd Thursdays: The PYP will be open from 10:00AM - 8:00PM on the 3rd Thursday of each month during the fall and winter season.

Admission

$5 per person or $2 with the presentation of a valid EBT card for up to 4 people

Members are free

Subscribe!

Want to keep up with the latest news and event details? Sign up!

Welcome to the Waterloo Center for the Arts