Heights Arts: Celebrating 25 Years of Community Engagement

Heights Arts will be celebrating its 25th anniversary in the upcoming year, reflecting on a quarter-century of artistic contributions to the community. This multi-disciplinary arts organization has engaged the public through various forms of art, including public installations, gallery exhibitions, music performances, and poetry programming. Its mission is to “celebrate the region’s literary, musical, and visual artists.”Heights Arts hosts Ohio’s […]

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Summit Artspace Spotlight: In-Studio Field Experience Introduces Students to Local Artists

Summit Artspace believes that local artists embody entrepreneurship, and the Akron artist hub has launched a distinctive field trip experience to invite middle and high school students to learn more first-hand. By connecting students with local artists, the program inspires and motivates young adults to lean into their own artistic potential and support it in others. Schools are encouraged to […]

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Artists Archives of the Western Reserve presents The Beauty and Influence of Appalachia, and The New Now 2024.

The Archives will open a number of must-see exhibitions for the 2024 fall season. We start off in September with The Beauty and Influence of Appalachia, a large survey exhibitionof artistscurated by Lisa Kenion. Her hope as curator of this exhibition is that the influence and beauty of the region can be appreciated through the art created by those who […]

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Outlined in Black: Celebrating Richness and Culture, with Akron Black Artists Guild

The Outlined in Black Exhibition is Akron Black Artist Guild’s signature event. It brings together artists, art enthusiasts, and cultural advocates in a shared space to engage, learn from each other, and celebrate the richness and diversity of Black art and culture. It is an exhibition of immense importance in the art and culture community, particularly for artists here in […]

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In Plain Sight: Tony Skinner

Artist Tony Skinner is a figurative artist and illustrator. His work is characterized by layered illustrations of people. Color and texture are two of the tools he uses as he explores the human figure and condition. This body of work deals with the housing insecurity problem that continues to plague our country in every community—Skinner noticed the problem magnified in […]

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Art—and Design—Figure prominently in CIA’s 2024 Faculty Exhibition

Many Northeast Ohioans recognize the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) as a preeminent art school. But on occasion, they lose sight of the fact that CIA is a college of art and design. Remember, world-renowned designer Viktor Schreckengost ’29 pioneered the nation’s very first Industrial Design department at CIA in 1933. Rest assured that design—from product design to animation to […]

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