Milwaukee-based musician Maximiano is preparing for their Iowa debut on April 18, bringing a deeply personal and close-listening performance to the stage at The Black Angel.
The Black Angel
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Inspired by a dream, Council Bluffs’ Black Angel statue was quickly tarnished by tragedy and scandal
Content warning: Suicide Ruth stands alone on a rocky shore, surrounded by a hazy sea. In the distance, a shape appears through the mist. A boat approaches, and at the bow stands a woman so beautiful she must be an angel. Right hand outstretched, left hand clutching a basin of water, the angel beckons softly, […]
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The Black Angel and Ana Mendieta
“I have been carrying on a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette). I believe this has been a direct result of my having been torn from my homeland (Cuba) during my adolescence. I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature). My art […]
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Local legends: The Black Angel, Coe College’s ghost and the haunted Edinburgh Manor
These eastern Iowa attractions are the subjects of eerie speculation, from a cursed statue to a ghostly mascot to Iowa’s most haunted asylum.
