LONGFELLOW-HURLBUT CONCOURSE GALLERY
Enjoy temporary exhibits with a dramatic view of the river in this gallery which serves as the lobby for Hope Martin Theater, the home of Waterloo Community Playhouse and the Black Hawk Children's Theater.
NOW DISPLAYING
Recent Works
by Michael Broshar
On view April 15 - August 17
Painter, Waterloo Center for the Arts instructor, and former architect Michael Broshar presents over a decade of artworks from his studio and plein air practice. This self-titled exhibition features paintings in watercolor, gouache, and oil. Broshar’s first plein air painting experience was in San Francisco in 2016 during a three-day workshop with Uruguayan-born and world-renowned painter Alvaro Castegnet. Soon after the workshop he affirms, “I became comfortable painting on site, and I’m convinced plein air painting makes me a better artist.”
Running concurrently with the Broshar exhibition will be To Dream the Land: Watercolors from the Collection. Featuring abstract watercolor landscapes by Iowa artists Clayton Fowler, Shirley Eliason Haupt, Cheryl Jacoby, Richard Leet, and Jo Myers-Walker, as well as some luminous nocturnal compositions by New York artist Louis Pontone. These remarkable watercolors are transcendent depictions of, and charged references to, the land, the water, the sky, and the heavens.
SELECTIONS FROM THE CARIBBEAN COLLECTION
Ongoing
Artworks on display are from Caribbean Island countries as well as from the neighboring countries that surround the Caribbean Sea in South America and Central America. In these locations as well as in the artwork produced there, connections, similarities and transfer of tradition are plentiful. Yorba, Ewe, and Congo art forms from Africa mingle with English, Spanish and French traditions from Europe as well as with Taino, Aztec and other cultural customs from indigenous traditions in Latin America. We hope that this inspiring mixture of artwork will provoke dialog and lead to greater understanding globally and locally.