Waterloo Center for the Arts

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The Waterloo Center for the Arts' purpose is to initiate and further awareness, appreciation, and support of the arts by a diverse audience. The Center works in partnership with the community to provide cultural experiences for all ages.

Hours: Tues-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm
Cost: Galleries are Free; Phelps Youth Pavilion: $5/person
www.waterloocenterforthearts.org

Located on the banks of the scenic Cedar River in downtown Waterloo, the Art Center offers outstanding indoor and outdoor rental facilities.

Visitors enjoy changing exhibitions in addition to a significant permanent collection including Mexican Folk Art, Midwest Art, American Decorative Arts, International Folk Art and the world's largest public collection of Haitian Art. Galleries are free and open to the public.

Art classes and workshops for all ages and levels are offered throughout the year. Visit: http://www.waterloocenterforthearts.org/PDF/classes2017_summer_Web.pdf for our current class schedule.

Events, festivals and concerts take place indoors and outdoors throughout the year at the Art Center, RiverLoop Amphitheatre and Expo Plaza.

The Center houses a Gift Store, Cafe, Waterloo Community Playhouse/Black Hawk Children's Theatre and the Phelps Youth Pavilion. The Youth Pavilion is an interactive children's museum featuring over 40 hands-on exhibits for ages 12 and under to explore. Milk a life-size cow, drive a tractor through a Grant Wood painting, explore the music, language and culture of other countries, and more! Mark's Park splash pad and playground is located next to the Youth Pavilion and open seasonally.

Waterloo Center for the Arts is supported by:
City of Waterloo
Community Foundation of Northeast Iowa
Friends of the Art Center
Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs
RJ McElroy Trust
Waterloo Convention & Visitors Bureau Hotel-Motel Tax Fund
Waterloo City Council Discretionary Hotel-Motel Tax Fund
Numerous private donors

Address: 225 Commercial St, Waterloo, IA 50701, USA

Phone: (319) 291-4490

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State: Iowa

City: Waterloo

Zip Code: 50701

Opening Hours

Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Friday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

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Reviews

Great hall for a reception fairly priced.  Staff very helpful and works with you

 7 years ago (21-03-2018)

Great venue.  Came here for a wedding and have also been here for a musical.  Has a nice view of river.  The bathrooms are clean and well kept. Great place overall.

 8 years ago (26-11-2017)

A great place to see a show or host an event, I've attended both and loved it!

 7 years ago (07-03-2018)

We have respectfully waited 2 weeks to hear back from anyone regarding our awful WEDDING experience with the Center for the Arts, but we have not heard a single word from them.
We had our wedding on 8/12/17 at the Amphitheater, we booked the space more than a year in advance with Carrie the events coordinator. She had been very helpful and assured us many times that we would not have to do anything except show up and have a good time. Well, Carrie left and we got replaced with Cherie who knows NOTHING about how to coordinate events. 
I talked on the phone with Cherie twice the week of the wedding, and my husband and I had a meeting with her the week before. We were told MULTIPLE times that the pathways would be barricaded so that public could not walk through our wedding, and that the Splash Pad would be turned off. There were no barricades up, and the Splash Pad was on with at least 15 people playing on the pad that we had to ask to leave. My HUSBAND, GROOMSMAN, and FATHER had to clean up BEER CANS, CIGARETTES, TRASH and VOMIT!! IN THEIR TUXEDOS because the Amphitheater had not been cleaned from the concert the previous day AND put up the barricades themselves. 
I PAID for the Media Gallery to get ready in with my bridesmaids and honorees, and the DOUBLE BOOKED it with a birthday party, so they "upgraded us" to a better, bigger space... yeah IN THE BASEMENT of the building. There were spiders, and storage, and it was dimly lit. We had to talk to the front desk FOUR TIMES before we were able to be moved into the room that I PAID for. Then we were told by numerous people that we had to get out of there because there was a birthday party in there that day. We had to ONCE AGAIN, move all of our stuff out of the room before the ceremony even started. Which meant that anything that we needed access to after the ceremony (makeup touch ups, shoes, cellphones, etc) were all scattered between peoples cars and not easily accessible. 
We had random public strangers walking around before, during, and after the ceremony and had to multiple times tell people to leave because it was a private event. 

We asked multiple times, to multiple people, who was in charge to get our money back, at least for the nonsense with the Media Gallery, and no one knew who to talk to. No one knew who Cherie was, and they clearly do not communicate with each other. 

The day was chaos and I am so incredibly thankful that we did NOT have the reception there. It was an awful experience. and I pray that our pictures turn out nicely since none of us were able to touch up makeup or fix anything afterwards because we had no room to go and touch up in.

I DO NOT promote doing any events at the Center for the Arts, and I would NOT ever give them your money. They place and staff is chaotic and disrespectful.

 8 years ago (30-08-2017)

- good size 
-great art supplied room.. I made a collage 
- not busy on our visit almost empty, oddly

 8 years ago (14-11-2017)

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