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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. 

FORSBERG RIVERSIDE GALLERY

Reverberations
September 3 - February 9 

LAW-REDDINGTON
GALLERY

Stitchings by Ute Stebich
Ongoing

REULING FELDMAN GALLERY

Haitian Art
Ongoing

WATKINS GRAND FOYER

Optical Vertigo & Selections from Caribbean Collection 
Ongoing

LANGLAS LOFT GALLERY

Art Instructors Showcase
Coming Soon

ROTARY LICHTY GALLERY

Fe Koupe: Haitian Iron Works from Collection 
Ongoing

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

BUFFY QUEGG

Watkins Grand Foyer
On View beginning November 26

The artist's approach to painting is reflexive. Organic and architectural forms emerge and relationships are developed as each composition progresses. She invites the visitor to activate their own associations and references as they view the work. 

PLATTERS & VESSELS ​

By Jim Kerns

Longfellow-Hurlbut Concourse Gallery
On View beginning November 26

Social injustice, especially in regard to mental illness, homelessness, and incarceration, will be the featured themes in ceramist Jim Kern's most recent body of work. 

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ART INSTRUCTORS SHOWCASE

On View beginning October 8

Featuring upwards of 15 local artists - instructors, this exhibition ranges from batik to drawing, stained glass to ceramics as well as watercolor, fiber art, and printmaking. 

ARTIST RECEPTIONS

THURS.


October 10 - 5:30-7:30pm
 

Art Instructors Showcase

Opening Reception 
FREE ADMISSION 

We invite you to an opening reception celebrating our 15 local artists, their art and contributions to learning while also acknowledging their artistic impact within the community. 



Sponsored by friends of the Art Center

FRI.


December 6 
5:30-7:30pm

 

Winter Artists' Reception 

FREE ADMISSION 

Join in celebrating artists, Jim Kerns, whose ceramics are on view in the Longfellow-Hurlbut Concourse Gallery and Buffy Quegg whose paintings are on view in the Watkins Grand Foyer.



Sponsored by friends of the Art Center

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