Don’t Touch Me combats stereotypes concerning Black womanhood through the multimedia work of Ewuresi Archer, MB, Sydney Kay, CHIMI, and Vivica Satterwhite. Combining painting, sculpture, fiber, printmaking, and photography, the exhibition reframes misconceptions about the Black femme experience to highlight the vulnerability, gentleness, and care held within maintaining the right to consent. The highly textural […]

Practice your drawing and painting skills with this free workshop with exhibiting artist Elisa Albrecht! Within this workshop, participants will learn more about Elisa’s process of working with surrealist techniques such as decalcomania to create newly imagined landscapes and figures. Working with the spontaneous patterns of inkblots on paper participants will create various inventive finished […]

Learn more about the beautiful process of painting on glass in the Waterloo Arts Cafe! Join artist Grace Frank for a free, hands-on glass painting class where you’ll learn how to paint a flower in reverse. This unique technique creates luminous, layered artwork. No experience is necessary, and all materials are provided. This class is […]

Come to Waterloo Arts this weekend for a free cyanotyping demonstration and workshop with current exhibiting artist Steven Mastroianni! Cyanotype is one of the oldest photographic processes, dating to the 1840s. Early adopters utilized the technique to render images of botanical samples, and later to create the original “blueprints”, making multiple prints from mechanical drawings. […]

Join the members of Collinwood Better Streets for a community walk on Monday, June 23. Meet outside the Collinwood Rec Center and stroll with neighbors and friends for a one mile loop back to the start. Everyone of every age is welcome on this summer evening stroll and we’ll enjoy some treats together at the […]

Happy Juneteenth! The gallery will be closed on Thursday, June 19th, 2025 in observance of Juneteenth and will reopen on Friday, June 20, 12-4pm. Share this: