Here are images of the inaugural Chroma63: Midwest Art & Sound festival at WCA, which happened on June 14. A beautiful day with dozens of creatives, featuring artists, punk rock bands, rappers, skaters, and live painting. I managed 31 artists, some veteran festival vendors and others brand new to the scene. Very exciting, very fulfilling, oh, and all-consuming.
This is Diversity Is Our Strength, a wheat-paste mural (edition #2) installed at the corner of Mulberry and E. Park in Waterloo, IA. The ribbon-cutting was May 23, 2025. Pictured at center is the artist/designer Isaac Campbell. See also Mayor Hart and WCA Exec. Dir. Chawne Paige. I posted about edition #1 back in 2020 before the derecho destroyed it.
Michael Broshar's demo watercolor and Ethan Edvenson's collab collage at the opening for both artists, May 9, 2025.
Dining in the Cedar Valley.
WCA celebrates the most recent collaboration with the Des Moines Art Center, an exhibition of Haitian art from the collection followed by a symposium featuring Chawne Paige, Fredo Rivera, Dr. Petrouchka Moise, and Dr. Inbal Mazar. Lovely!
Rally for Democracy at the Waterloo Public Library on April 19, 2025. Organized by the Insufferable Wenches.
It was Bev McCusker's 90th birthday on the 11th of April. We celebrated at the Hwy 63 Diner in Waterloo on the 12th. Posting on the 13th.
