Fri 11/7 @ 6-9PM

The monthly Walk All over Waterloo is an opportunity to listen to some music, have a bite to eat and most of all, check out some art.

Everything is indoors now, so if it’s music you want Cleveland Rocks: Past Present Future’s Waterloo Makes Music free concert series is indoors at the Beachland Tavern until the spring. There from 6-8pm you can check out eclectic Cleveland rapper Nuke Franklin who draws in sounds from all sorts of today’s hip hops artists from hardcore rappers to humorous to introverted, moody ones, and DJ &crilla, who has been a professional producer for 15 years making music for Netfix trailers and Super Bowl commercials.

Be sure to stop at Waterloo Arts where photographer Hadley Conner’s evocative new work is on display in Now Voyager. Based in photography, it draws on a multitude of mediums and processes including cyanotype, hand coloring, both digital and silver gelatin photography, encaustic, collage, and assemblage to create a pensive, nostalgic vibe in complex images that suggest fleeing glimpses of bygone eras. One large work collages old roadmaps hung with room keys from roadside motels that largely don’t exist anymore (some of her photos are based on images of the few that do), relegated to obsolescence by multi-lane tollroads and freeways. In some of her images, a figure inhabits the landscape, seemingly lost in thought.

Also stop to see the abstract paintings in Stay Composed by Megan Dardis in the Waterloo Arts Café where Dardis will be doing an artist talk at 7:30pm.

Down the street at the Article gallery, Stephen Calhoun’s first solo exhibit since 2020, called Cheap Surrealities, includes 56 small and medium-sizes works made this year, as what he describes as “a casual retrospective stuffed with goodies from the past” and well as “artworks I created before I became an artist.” Calhoun’s work is always imaginative and engaging, and he promises “affordable.” It’s open from 5-9, as well as noon-5pm Saturday November 8.

And across the street check out the ongoing show Little Treasures at Praxis Fiber Arts’ gallery. Josie Kampitz and Nate Rouse’s work is constructed on wallpaper, interrogating its uses in the past and present, and possible the future.