Hearst Center for the Arts

06/17/2026

Bring a friend & try the perfect summer class, Interpreting the Summer Landscape in Watercolor, on Wednesdays, July 1-29 from 1:00-3:00 p.m. Register online via https://bit.ly/HearstRegister!

Watercolor students at all levels can explore the medium of watercolor. Paint your favorite Iowa scene in the studio and plein air. Discover the power of simplifying your paintings through linkages of light, shadow, and color.

Instructor: Brad Mattocks
Fee: $70 (Friends Member $63)

06/17/2026

We ♥️ it when Camp CF adventures at the Hearst. Our friends at the Cedar Falls Rec have a fun crew this summer with the most fun campers that are showing their creative side here this week!

06/16/2026

The 2nd Annual Hearst Art Supply Swap Meet returns this summer during Artisans in the Garden. Drop off supplies starting now through July 30, 2026 at the Hearst Center during open business hours only. Please do not leave donations at our front/side door or on the outside premise. The fun all happens during Artisans in the Garden & Swap Meet on Sunday, August 9, 2026 from 1-3:30 p.m. Mark your calendars!

Donate your gently used art and craft supplies, items you no longer use and trade it for something you will. No items to swap? No problem—make a goodwill donation to support Hearst’s classroom programs and take part in the fun. All items should be reusable and in working condition—please avoid expired or dried out materials, and refrain from donating recycled household items like toilet paper rolls or egg cartons.

WHAT TO DONATE?
• Paints, brushes, markers, and crayons
• Yarn, knitting and crochet tools
• Old canvases, frames, and mats
• Paper, stamps, scrapbook supplies
• Ceramics tools, glass supplies, quilting and sewing fabric
• Spotlights and props for paintings

HEARST HOURS OF OPERATION FOR DONATION
Monday: CLOSED (*please do not drop off donations on our outside premise or at the doors)
Tuesday: 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
Wednesday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday: 1-4 p.m.

06/16/2026

THIS SATURDAY! 🎶🎤

Music is celebrated in Cedar Falls every day but highlighted on Saturday, June 20 during Making Music Cedar Falls organized by the Hearst Center for the Arts! Mark your calendar to enjoy live music all day at various locations around the city. 🎶

06/15/2026

Hearst Permanent Collection Pick

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John Page, Johanningmeier Bridge, Serigraph, Gift of the artist, 2013.02.11

06/12/2026

Ending with today focusing on “Museums Are Essential.” Every summer, we look forward to serving our community through art during festival season.

We are regulars at our annual town Sturgis Falls Celebration & Artapalooza. We can’t wait to get creative with everyone from the Cedar Valley in the next couple months. Stop by our booth for all fun fun.

We are proud to be part of the Community Development Department for the City of Cedar Falls and serve our community through the arts. From education programing for all ages, to live concerts in the sculpture to rotating art exhibitions, we do it all.

Iowa Museum Association

06/12/2026

A truly incredible evening for “It’s Touching: Art You Can Feel.”✨

Thank you to our volunteers - Linda, Diana, Bob, Adel & Thenus. Special thank you to Ali & Nina from Sciplay. We appreciate you all♥️

This exhibition is on view in Dahl-Thomas Gallery through August 2. If you haven’t had the chance to experience, now’s the time.

06/11/2026

Tonight we honor the participating artists, our partners & sponsors, & all the hard work that made the exhibition, “It’s Touching: Art You Can Feel” possible. We couldn’t be more thrilled to come together in the galleries to celebrate.

JOIN US! Meet the artists, enjoy food & bev, and experience the feel of the artwork. The fun starts at 5:30 p.m.🙌

06/11/2026

Continuing with today focusing on “Museums Are Community.” We are proud to be part of the incredible Iowa Museum community creating important conversation, opportunity, growth & more.

Our current exhibition on view is "It's Touching: Art You Can Feel." Local artists whose pieces invite safe, intentional physical interaction; encouraging visitors to experience art not just through sight, but through touch, texture, form, and material. A unique experience for everyone, and especially to think about appealing to the low vision and no vision community, who are not usually considered when creating a visual art exhibition. All can experience work in a meaningful and similar way. We worked with Kelsi Hansen of the Iowa Department for the Blind to the Iowa Library for the Blind and Print Disabled, whose expert guidance helped shape this exhibition.

'An exhibition within this exhibition' comes in collab with Visual Spectrums x Public Space One. VS is an Iowa based collab, connecting artists & audiences of all kinds of visual abilities to reimagine the visual arts.

Featured artwork in this post is by artist, Sarah Lynn Fitzgerald. “My work explores how we see-and how our vision changes. After living with Fuchs' dystrophy and undergoing two corneal transplants, my sense of sight has shifted more than once. The imagery reflects fragility, perception, and renewal-a meditation on seeing differently. Through this place, I invite viewers to consider the beauty and insight that can emerge from altered vision. In the video on view, drawings are merged with filmed sunflower fields; a sunflower with an eye at its center and a paper butterfly with eyes on its wings."

View additional works in this space by Sena Graham, Jessica Bly, Miriam Alarcon Avila, Jocelyn Engman, and Joan McCracken Thomas.

Iowa Museum Association
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Sarah Lynn Fitzgerald, Field Study (Sunflowers), Multimedia