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Elkader, Iowa

 A recent excursion to Elkader, Iowa for WCA.

 Children's book author/illustrator Arthur Geisert's charming home studio on Main Street.

 Geisert portraits.

The studio (Angi Reid to the far right, top pic; Arthur Geisert to the upper center, bottom pic).

 A rejected book jacket. Guess why?

 The Keystone Bridge on the Turkey River in Elkader, post-renovation.

 The Motor Mill and Iron Bridge.

 Gary's art on the Turkey River.

Reverberations

Reverberations exhibition at the Waterloo Center for the Arts, Forsberg-Riverside Gallery.

 

September 3, 2024 - February 9, 2025

 

For decades, artist, educator, gallerist, and collector Ute Stebich has guided the development of the collections at the Waterloo Center for the Arts. Through Ute, the WCA became a conduit to other collectors such as Janet Feldman and Larry Kent and countless others. The synergy and focus she stimulated has led to a rich and spirited international collection, unique to Waterloo and a vital in the Midwest.

 

Reverberations takes as its principal inspirations an abstract painting by Brazilian artist and landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, a print portfolio by Mexican Zapotec artist and activist Francisco Benjamín López Toledo, and the truck tire sculptures of Haitian artist André Eugène. The imagery, symbols, and motifs that they express fostered other associations within the collection, necessitating a look at objects from India, Pakistan, Australia, Tonga, Bahamas, and Panama.

 

This presentation is a companion to the exhibition Selections from the International Folk Arts Collection, which is in the Law-Reddington Gallery. While there, the viewer will find a delightful exhibition of Ute’s own work, cross-stitched canvases of amazing and subtle asymmetrical geometry as well as buoyant color and rhythm.

Darrell Taylor, Curator/Assistant Director, Waterloo Center for the Arts