Legion Arts is an award-winning, Cedar Rapids nonprofit dedicated to the creation, presentation, understanding and impact of contemporary art.
Based at CSPS, a restored landmark building on the edge of downtown Cedar Rapids, Legion Arts presents cutting edge art, music theatre, film and other events at a variety of venues; supports young artists, experimental art forms and new ideas.
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Get immortalized: Celebrated public artist signing up people for portrait-drawing marathon
Celebrated Indiana public artist Tom Torluemke is signing up Iowans from all walks of life to have their portraits drawn June 2-4, as part of a three-day drawing marathon. Tom will set up shop in the Firehouse at CSPS starting … Continue reading
Welcome to Legion Arts
- Wednesday, January 25, 2012
- Gary Hootman has spent the last 27 years well… refining the epic and unpredictable art of wood-fired ceramics. The an...
- Sunday, May 27, 2012
- 2:00 pm
- As part of a week-long residency with Legion Arts, Vermont's Sandglass Theater will take part in this panel on the ways ...
- Saturday, June 2, 2012
- Celebrated Indiana public artist Tom Torluemke is signing up Iowans from all walks of life to have their portraits drawn...
- Saturday, June 16, 2012
- 8:00 pm
- The Surf Zombies play fast, crazy surf instrumentals, successfully straddling the line between alternative underground, ...
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Get immortalized: Celebrated public artist signing up people for portrait-drawing marathon
Celebrated Indiana public artist Tom Torluemke is signing up Iowans from all walks of life to have their portraits drawn June 2-4, as part of a three-day drawing marathon. Tom will set up shop in the Firehouse at CSPS starting … Continue reading
Legion Arts welcomes Vermont theatre company for week-long residency
(May 2012) The internationally acclaimed Sandglass Theater will have a week-long residency at CSPS Hall May 21-25 with workshops and two performances of the musical drama All Weather Ballads Thursday, May 24 at 7 pm and Friday, May 25 at … Continue reading
CSPS to host international networked performance festival
(April 2012) A pie-eating contest from Queens, followed by breakdancing from Bogota, followed by a banjo tune from Cedar Rapids….that’s the Low Lives performance festival. CSPS Hall in Cedar Rapids will be the Midwestern node for the two-day networked performance … Continue reading
Three tenants signed for CSPS Hall
By Steve Gravelle, Cedar Rapids Gazette Heidi Eiffert started coming to Cedar Rapids’ New Bohemia neighborhood about four years ago in search of eye-catching photographic backgrounds. “We had photographed outside the CSPS hall for years,” said Eiffert. “It was just … Continue reading
