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View of gallery space with distorted image of figure projected on partition wall in middle of gallery and couch with pillows set up across from partition wall. Two sets of headphones hang over back of couch.

Art

The Waterloo Center for the Arts stimulates inquiry, provokes dialogue and connects people through the arts.

Galleries

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

Law-Reddington Gallery

Grief is the
Price of Love
by Amythest Warrington

Evanescence: Art from the UNI Permanent Art Collection

May 12-November 22

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Watkins
Grand Foyer

Twin Passions, Art
and the Outdoors: My Journey from Landscape to Abstraction
March 17- November 8

Memories of
Woodie Long
March 2-december 3

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Creative Connect Corridor

Memories of
Woodie Long
March 2-December 6

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Long-fellow-Hurlbut Concourse

Twin Passions, Art
and the Outdoors: My Journey from Landscape to Abstraction
March 17- November 8

Heartwood: Objects from the International Folk Art Collection
Beginning March 17

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Langlas Loft Gallery

Viendo La Vida
Ongoing

American Abstract Artist
Paul Bland
May 19-November 22

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Reuling Feldman Gallery

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

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West
Gallery

Cielo Y Tierra: Mexican Traditional Painting
September 4 - April 19

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Forsberg Riverside Gallery

Collecting Light:
Gifts from the
Gessen Family
April 28-August 16

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Rotary Lichty Gallery

Fe Koupe: Haitian Iron Works from Collection
Ongoing

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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.

Upcoming Exhibitions

New exhibits to be announced

COLLECTIONS

Midwest Art

Sculpture of a cow, its body and jaw line painting in bright swirling and overlapping lines. The face from the horns to the nose is silver with a square pattern and adjacent black line separating the silver face with the colorful body.

American Regionalist

Painting by Emily Minnie of a women looking over her shoulder, her soft blue eyes locked on something in the distance and her long blonde hair partially tucked behind her ear flowing with the movement.

American Decorative Arts

Sculpture of elongated metal cubes comprised of black bars nested and leaning into each other in an upward structure.

International Folk Art

3D figure wearing a hat made from tarnished blue patches and circular steam punk style googles resting on brim of hat. Figure wears a second pair of googles and accompanying layers necklaces and an open button up shirt

Haitian Art

Central figure gazing at viewer with snakes and smaller other worldly figures floating around the top of the painting. A white cross is depicted above the central figures head and between the smaller figures.

Public Art

Upper half of larger than life outdoor sculpture of a blue guitar with red strings that bend and twist giving the sculpture character.

Cow from WTF Exhibition

Artist Receptions

Upcoming receptions to be announced

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