Category: Articles

Beyond the Wall: Artists as Builders of Healthy Communities

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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Creativity in Full Bloom, at Art House

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 Expands into Its New Home

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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Lee Waldman: Transitions, at ArtiCle

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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Bonfoey Gallery Presents Laurence Channing: Then and Now

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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Keegan Adams: Process ; Print ; Parable

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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Share a camera. Touch grass. Slow down.

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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Weaving Stories, Building Legacies: Jessica Skinner and Gregory Cross at East Ave Gallery

by Chimba J. Nachinsambwe When East Ave Gallery in Akron’s historic Kenmore neighborhood unveils its newest exhibitions, visitors will encounter two artists whose work, while distinct in medium and approach, shares a common thread: an invitation to reflect on the people, histories, and experiences that shape us. Jessica Skinner’s To The Ones and Gregory Cross’s Standing on the Shoulders of […]

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