Diversity Is Our Strength

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.

Happenings at the Center

Michael Broshar's demo watercolor and Ethan Edvenson's collab collage at the opening for both artists, May 9, 2025.

Installing an Evelyn Alcide drapo in the Law-Reddington Galleries. At lunch with Fleuve - Revolution of Freedom & Flow exhibition co-curators Chawne Paige and Petrouchka Moise.

 

A Ra Ra Cape by Clotaire Bazile.

 

 Installation views of Fleuve.

 

A vault tour for Des Moines Art Center members and staff.

 

The new RiverLoop Amphitheatre sound panel mural. Pretty pretty.

May 2025

 Dining in the Cedar Valley.

 

2025 Black Hawk County Master Gardeners Banquet with a landscape design lecture by lily expert Phil Fass.

 

First flowers of 2025

Symposium at DMAC, April 26, 2025

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

Rally for Democracy at the Waterloo Public Library on April 19, 2025. Organized by the Insufferable Wenches.

90th!

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.

 

It's also Mark's (Ace's) Golden Year.

 

Hands Off March and Rally

 Waterloo's Hands Off March and Rally in Lincoln Park, downtown Waterloo, IA.