Since 1931, artists have gathered to learn, create and grow as the Akron Society of Artists (ASA). A show by “fourteen men of Akron” at the Akron Art Institute (now Museum) sparked the group’s creation, and the first studio was on the top floor of the YMCA building. Now ASA meets on Wednesday nights, September to May, at Mustard Seed […]
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When the Akron Black Artist Guild unveiled Redlining Redefined in June, the mural marked the completion of a public art project and, more importantly, demonstrated what happens when artists are trusted to lead community conversations. The mural explored Akron’s history of redlining through archival photographs, historical research, and community storytelling. Residents shared family photographs, memories, and lived experiences, transforming the […]
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by Rebecca Kempton and Thalia Arias Each summer, Art House, Inc. comes alive with curiosity, innovation, and community. Through free, week-long camps, children from Brooklyn Centre and surrounding neighborhoods explore art in a hands-on environment that encourages imagination, confidence, and creative expression. This summer, light and nature have inspired projects ranging from cyanotypes and seed mandalas to kinetic sculptures dancing […]
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ARTFUL is well into the second year at its new, fabulous location. It has been a whirlwind year of cleaning, building, and renovating, after purchasing the former St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in May of 2025. We were able to divide the space into 33 studios, including a fully outfitted ceramics studio. Forty artists now have dedicated, safe and inclusive art […]
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Article Gallery is pleased to present the multifaceted work of artist Lee Waldman, the recipient of the 2024 Tilkkanen Painting Prize. Lee has been making art for most of his life, and his Cleveland Heights home is a total studio environment, bursting with his paintings, drawings and wood sculpture. Lee’s drawing table, easels, and well-worn armchair are the first things […]
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My fascination with plein air painting (French for “in the open air”) began when I traveled to Monhegan Island in Maine several years ago. As a longtime studio painter, I was looking for inspiration and ways to improve my painting. I longed to paint on location, immersed in nature. I took a workshop with a wonderful group of people, in […]
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For over three decades, Laurence Channing has transformed Cleveland’s streets, bridges, and industrial architecture into compelling works of art. This fall, the Bonfoey Gallery presents Laurence Channing: Then and Now, a retrospective exhibition spanning the 1990s to the present. Alongside earlier works, the exhibition debuts an entirely new series of charcoal drawings created exclusively for this exhibition. Laurence Channing’s drawings […]
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As a young child, Keegan Adams (MFA, Indiana University, 2014) remembers his grandfather describing his engraving process as “ice skating over the plate.” Although at first this may seem to be a simplified way for a child to understand a complex process, the memory itself provides us with some clues into the meaning and process behind Adams’s own work. First […]
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Interdisciplinary artist Zoe Brester-Pennings has enjoyed a busy 2026. At the Cleveland Institute of Art, she’s a professor of practice in the printmaking program, and in April, she joined students and alumni in representing CIA at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Fine Print Fair. Outside of the college, her work was in The Groundhog Show in June in Akron. Prior […]
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Between the digital and material worlds, we are faced with conflicting values: presence or convenience, endless possibility or creative limitation? Inundated with thousands of images a day, most of which are produced by AI, it’s harder than ever to know what’s real, to feel what’s real. We’re slowing down and remembering why we even reach for the camera in the […]
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