Being a recent transplant from Greater Cleveland to the Akron area, I was unfamiliar with most of the artists in Summit Artspace’s annual FRESH exhibition. Now in its 18th year, the juried show is open only to artists in Summit, Medina, and Portage counties. This year’s iteration presents 31 works selected from a total of 155 entries by Jared Ledesma, […]
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Gray’s Auctioneers will offer up a host of modern and contemporary art for its upcoming auction, including a unique little sculpture loaded with big local history. In November 1979, Clevelanders watched on as a dynamic public art installation rose before the new Frank J. Lausche State Office Building on the corner of West 6th Street and Superior. While a […]
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Books are meant to be read. Even artist books—handmade, with original prints and other art integral to their pages—don’t come to life until someone reads them. For this reason, in conjunction with the Massillon Museum’s participation in the NEA’s Big Read event, and during an exhibit of my woodcut prints and artist books at the museum’s Studio M space, […]
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Optimism and pessimism join forces in Questions of Reverie, paintings by Christopher L. Richards at Maria Neil Art Project from March 4 to May 6. Both vibrant and muted canvases include reference to the artist’s interests in mid-twentieth-century abstraction as an exploration of energies that affect our mental state. “My paintings are meditations on how events and thoughts can […]
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The Gallery at Lakeland Community College presents an exhibition and artist reception for Celebrate Women’s History Month–from WOMAN XV… created by women, for women and about women. What started out as a small presentation by local and regional artists in 2008 has grown impressively to a sizable exhibition that includes works from artists in Ohio and across the country. […]
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In 2020 the world changed, and the “new normal” became the death of many arts sector formats. From concerts to exhibits, we, along with the entire creative industry, were closed for the majority of 2020—receiving funding to keep the business going, but unable to share our passion in the conventional ways. Artists did what we do best: adapted […]
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TEXTURES: the history and art of Black hair is a landmark exploration of Black hair and its important, complex place in the history of Afro-diaspora communities and cultures. On view at the Kent State University Museum, the exhibition features 180 paintings, sculptures, hair artifacts, photographs, advertisements, and magazines, along with a selection of hair products and implements from the collection […]
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Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, from humble beginnings, Augustus Turner remembered being inspired at an early age by watching and admiring others draw superheroes and cartoon characters—to the point where he picked up a pencil and never put it down. Confident, assertive, humorous, and humble all in one, this is the Augustus Turner I had the pleasure and […]
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Kent Blossom Art Intensives (KBAI), Kent State University School of Art’s long-running summer studio art intensive, announces its return after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The return of the program in the summer of 2022 will include two-week intensives in ceramics, jewelry/metals/enameling, painting, print media and photography, and sculpture and expanded media. All sessions will take place […]
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From March 18 through May 15 in the Heights Arts exhibition space, artists Peter Christian Johnson, Karin Dijkstra, Corrie Slawson, Claudio Orso, and Carmen Romine test where boundaries lie between representational study and abstract expression. FIGURATIVE /ABSTRACT explores the familiar in unfamiliar ways, referring to the recognizable as a foundation from which new ideas are born. Portraying subjects from […]
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