CEDAR FALLS — A one-day, pop-up gallery exhibit featuring artworks by women will be featured Sunday at the University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art.

‘Cosmic Flitter,’ mixed media on paper, Phyllis Bramson (American)
“An Encomium: Women in Art” will showcase pieces from the UNI permanent art collection. The exhibit accompanies the Cedar Valley Chamber Music concert, “American Woman,” at 1 p.m. Sunday in the gallery, located in the Kamerick Art Building on the UNI campus.
Gallery Director Darrell Taylor curated the exhibit. Initially, he sought inspiration in the list of female composers CVCM Founder and Director Hunter Capoccioni selected for the concert, including Jennifer Higdon, Libby Larasen, Ellen Taafee Zwilich, Valerie Coleman and Florence Price.

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“That’s what I did five years ago, the last time Cedar Valley Chamber Music performed in the gallery. There were fewer connections this time, so I pulled what I thought was the most exciting artwork from the collection,” said Taylor.
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“It’s very exciting to have music and art sharing the same space. The pop-up show was popular when we did it before, and we reached an audience that we wouldn’t normally have reached. I wanted to repeat that.”
More than a dozen artworks will be displayed, “mostly modern and contemporary art,” he said.

‘Alphabet,’ oil on canvas, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, (Salish/Kootenai)
Featured artists include Native American artists Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Black Moon, a former UNI student, California sculptor Nina de Creeft Ward, British printmaker Elisabeth Frink and Chicago-based painter Phyllis Bramson. Also, former UNI Art Department instructor Deborah Zlotsky and Hanne Darboven, Gladys Nilsson and Suda House, among others.
Female artists are represented in about 40 percent of UNI’s permanent art collection. “We’re working on that – acquiring has a lot to do with patrons donating – who has the artwork and who wants to give it to the collection.
“We are actively putting the word out there, trying to do what we can to add more art by women and people of color. That’s our focus,” Taylor explained.
Exhibitions are free throughout the day. CVCM concert tickets are $20 each, available online at cedarvalleymusic.org or at the door. The gallery will provide chairs and benches for the audience.
Additionally, the exhibition “Glamours, Illusions, and Apparitions” also will be open in the Mary Haskell-Hansen Room of the Gallery.
For more information, contact the gallery at [email protected] or visit the Cedar Valley Chamber Music website.
PHOTOS Treasure Chest of wonderful, weird objects at Cedar Valley museums, galleries
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Waterloo Center for the Arts Curator Chawne Paige holds “Running Jaguar and the Mystery of the Cob,” created by Jacobo and Maria Angeles from Oaxaca, Mexico, a piece in the center’s permanent collection.
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Sculptures in storage at the Waterloo Center for the Arts’ permanent collection.
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Marvin Cone’s “I Have Loved the Unloved” is on display at the Waterloo Center for the Art’s gallery.
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Waterloo Center for the Arts Curator Chawne Paige and Registrar Elizabeth Andrews unpack a new addition to the center’s collection.
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Julie Huffman-Klinkowitz, collections manager at the Cedar Falls Historical Society, pulls a coat made from stallion hide out of its storage box on April 21 in Cedar Falls.
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The coat, which belonged to Mathias Sadler, a German who arrived in the United States in 1895, is part of the permanent collection at the Cedar Falls Historical Society.
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A woman’s three-speed bicycle made by John Deere that dates from 1972-1978, was recently donated to the historical society.
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A storage area in the Cedar Falls Historical Society.
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A garment storage area in the Cedar Falls Historical Society.
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University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art Director Darrell Taylor removes a Robert Rauschenberg lithograph, titled “Post Rally, edition 36/42,” from an archive shelf on April 8 in Cedar Falls.
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University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art Director Darrell Taylor uncovers a piece from the gallery’s collection on April 8 in Cedar Falls.
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University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art Director Darrell Taylor talks about new additions to the gallery’s collection on April 8 in Cedar Falls.
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Rembrandt etching at the UNI Gallery of Art.
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John Dabour pastel on canvas on board-UNI Gallery of Art. Photographed Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, in Cedar Falls, IA.
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Gregorian chant vellum and ink-UNI Gallery of Art. Photographed Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, in Cedar Falls, IA.
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George Grosz watercolor and ink on paper-UNI Gallery of Art in Cedar Falls.
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Nicholas Erickson, Grout Museum of History and Science registrar, lifts a doll out of a toy box belonging to Diane Broessel, who grew up in Waterloo in the 1940s.
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Nicholas Erickson, Grout Museum of History and Science registrar, handles a rifle from the museum’s collection.
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Nicholas Erickson, Grout Museum of History and Science registrar, looks over one of the museum’s storage rooms.
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One of the storage rooms at the Grout Museum of History and Science.
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Nicholas Erickson, Grout Museum of History and Science registrar, places a boxed quilt back onto a shelf in one of the museum’s storage rooms.
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Emily Drennen, the curator/registrar for the Hearst Center of the Arts, holds up a water color painting by Marjorie Nuhn titled “Atalya Hill, Santa Fe,” a piece in the center’s permanent collection.
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A storage room in the Hearst Center of the Arts holds many pieces of the center’s permanent collection.
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Emily Drennen, the curator/registrar for the Hearst Center of the Arts, looks over Ruth Hardinger’s “Tres Tiempos,” a new acquisition for the center’s permanent collection.