Potion Park: The Kaleidoscopic Garden of Steve Ehret and Kat Francis at Canton Museum of Art

Potion Park: The Kaleidoscopic Garden of Steve Ehret and Kat Francis, on view at the Canton Museum of Art through March 5th, merges the fantastical styles of these partner artists. Described as a “dream world” in didactics, the exhibition consists of only thirteen works. The show includes works by each artist, as well as pieces the pair created together. Perhaps […]

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Stories: BIPOC Artists from the Canton Museum of Art Collection

The work of BIPOC—Black, Indigenous, and People of Color—artists in the last century has reflected the struggle of Native Americans and Black Americans to receive the legal protections, rights, and privileges afforded to white Americans. This has been seen most notably throughout the last century in the form of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, the Civil Rights Movement of […]

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Canton Area Museums Collaborate to Provide Online Education and Entertainment

As the community works together to keep COVID-19 at bay, Stark and Tuscarawas County museums have organized to present content to their audiences in the comfort and safety of their homes and offices. To stay informed, engaged, and entertained, go to the Facebook pages of the McKinley Museum and Presidential Library, Massillon Museum, Canton Museum of Art, National First Ladies’ […]

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Dark Forms at the Canton Museum of Art

Nothing speaks of mystery with more sibilance than an ancient tomb, where half-seen shapes whisper to the unconscious mind. Ohio University professor Tom Bartel’s most recent ceramic works, glazed with metallic oxides and high kiln temperatures to a cindery brownish-black, mean to evoke just that response.   Installed in a small room to one side of a large gallery at […]

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