The Canton Museum of Art is offering three summer art camp sessions for children, beginning June 26. Camp classes are taught by Museum art instructors and incorporate a wide variety of media and techniques to inspire young artists. Children also enjoy access to the Museum galleries. Each session features 6 art classes, with age appropriate themes. Young kids (ages 6 - 8 ) can draw, paint, and sculpt their way through the desert sands with Desert Habitat -- or let the rainforest be their inspiration as they explore 2-D and 3-D art in Rainforest Art. “Let’s Paint!” explores the tremendo...
Massillon Museum staff members and guest curator Dan Kane will present a special look at the Museum’s summer exhibition, The Odditorium, on Wednesday evening, June 27, at 6:00. The event is free and open to everyone; no reservations are required. The Odditorium brings together hundreds of the Museum’s most unusual permanent collection objects in a bizarre house setting occupied by the fictional Wunderkammer family. Curated by the Museum’s executive director, Alexandra Nicholis Coon, and Dan Kane, arts and entertainment editor of The Repository, the exhibition juxtaposes unique items...
The new “Summer Sundae” event at the Massillon Museum on Sunday, June 24, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., will be a family day of fun for everyone. Pre-World War II vehicles will fill the front lawn and music will fill the air. Admission is free, but the best part will be choosing a handcrafted bowl (for a donation to the Museum’s Endowment Fund) and getting a free bowl of ice cream. Pottery ice cream bowls—handcrafted and donated by volunteers and staff members—will be displayed in the lobby of the Museum beginning on Tuesday, June 12. Museum friends are invited to choose a bowl and r...
Acme Artists is situated amidst the delightfully eccentric downtown Canton Arts District. This month the gallery is featuring a very special installment as Steve Ehret and Ron Copeland have combined forces in order to offer their first official Canton show. A long time in the making, this show will be one that both men can be proud of. The duo had assembled a few underground shows with Joseph Close and Patrick Buckohr but none of the magnitude of this month’s. Entitled “Daily Journal,” the collection is about Copeland’s and Ehret’s respective artistic processes. Copeland mentions ...
AKRON ART WALK With nearly two dozen participating galleries, eateries and drinkeries, which isn't a word, this monthly art walk will take place June 7. Each month the participating establishments are rotated, ensuring no two events are alike. The art walk stretches over the Northside District, North High St., and East and West Market St. and as a bonus, the city of Akron provides its free trolley service from 5 to 10 p.m. If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's never turn down a free ride. Or was it a gift horse? Never look a free ride in the mouth? I don't know, maybe I didn't le...
Josh Bazell’s novels are one part hard-boiled dark comedy, two parts Encyclopedia Britannica as written by a foul-mouthed Carl Hiaasen. Bazell’s latest concoction is “Wild Thing,” which continues the frenetic adventures of mob-hitman-in-witness protection Dr. Pietro Brwna. When we last saw our hero in “Beat the Reaper” (spoilers ahead, folks), he had barely escaped the murderous clutches of a Mafia hit squad that had tracked him down at the dreary Manhattan hospital where he was hiding out from his former bosses. Now a junior physician on a cruise ship, Brwna’s (pronounced “...
Let’s be frank: tattoos are just another form of art. Massillon’s Art Bomb Tattoos once again is reminding everyone of that by hosting the Classy and Sassy show, featuring work by artist Whitney Garey. Art Bomb has been tattooing and piercing since 2003, having moved to Massillon in 2008. For the past four years, they have featured local artists on their walls and regularly host shows for local work. If the name Whitney Garey sounds familiar, you’ve probably seen her pieces at Thirteenth Floor last summer — where Art Bomb first came across her. Garey’s art will be gracing the...
“Powerful” and “majestic” are perhaps two of the most common descriptors of El Anatsui’s large-scale metal wall and floor sculptures. The Ghana-born artist transforms discarded objects into colossal, shimmering constructions that sometimes dwarf the patrons who view them. Visitors to the Akron Art Museum will get to see exactly how much size matters when “Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui” premieres Sunday, June 17. The collection, at the museum through Oct. 7, features a dozen metal wall and floor sculptures made up of Anatsui’s most recent work. The exhibit...
Take painting, add some illustration and a bit of graffiti with some plush on the side and you have the art of local Clevelander Jeff Hulligan. Heavily influenced by comics, horror and the unusual, Hulligan brings out some creepy characters in his various forms of art, including paintings, prints and designer plush toys. Growing up, Hulligan was always into creating and was partial to drawing. “I wasn’t any sort of prodigy in my youth,” he said. “I drew stick-figure dinosaur guys with guns. It was pretty generic stuff that any 8- or 10-year-old would draw.” Most of his senior yea...
Sleepy Robot 13 is a toy store for adults — but before you get too excited, it’s not that kind of store. And in some ways, it’s better. Who hasn’t wanted to revisit the golden days of childhood? Here, you have full permission to revert back to your snot-nosed, 7-year-old self without looking completely silly. In fact, you can actually look kind of suave. Lisastarchild Pinkston — “Yes, that is my real name,” she laughed — began making miniature figurines of cute robots in 2009. She made a few for her desk at work, and when her coworkers saw them, they begged her to make some...
REDHOT features the bold canvases of James Johnson, a first-generation Abstract Expressionist who found a home in Northeast Ohio in the 1950s. The authenticity of his work is derived from his involvement with the New York School, followed by working with the San Francisco Bay artists. Born in New York City in 1925, Johnson was raised in a broken home that led him to lie about his age in order to join the Navy during World War II. When Johnson returned to New York in 1949, he found himself submerged in an artistic culture of Post War abstraction advocated by Hans Hoffman, established around Gr...
ORMACO (Ohio Regional Music Arts and Cultural Outreach) announces free summer arts classes for children in the Let’s Make a Difference program the month of June. The program has been orchestrated by newly appointed ORMACO board member, Char Klimko, owner of Dance d’ Elegance in Medina. Kathy Kraus, retired art teacher from Garfield Elementary School will open the summer program on June 9 with teaching the children how to work in chalk. On June 16, Dr. Deborah Waldon, retired Sharon Elementary School art teacher, will teach the children how to make sketch books. Sarah Jane Ingraham, a l...
Registration is now open for the Massillon Museum’s June classes for children and teens. Art teacher Stephen Tornero will teach six weeks of Painting classes on Tuesdays beginning June 12. Children ages seven through eleven will meet with him from 10:00 a.m. to noon. Teens ages twelve through sixteen will meet from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Torner’s Drawing classes, also six weeks, will meet on Wednesdays, beginning June 13. Students ages seven through eleven will meet with him from 10:00 a.m. to noon. Teens, ages twelve through sixteen will meet from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Artist Br...
A variety of new exhibits is now open at The Canton Museum of Art, and will be free on First Friday June 1 and July 6. The Creative Spirit showcases the exuberance of folk art, through the vast collection of Mark Chepp, (Director of the Springfield Museum of Art from 1991 through 2006). More than 260 pieces explore the “creative spirit” of self-taught artists who were inspired by daily life, politics and religion to create art from simple, available materials. The exhibit features sub-collections of ceramic face jugs, bottle-cap figures from the 1950’s, prison art and carvings. The Cr...
The Ananda Center for the Arts will host ArtSyrcus on Saturday, August 18, from 1:00 to 8:00 p.m. Duncan Plaza in Massillon will be a colorful collage of arts activities—a free day of family-friendly fun—punctuated with cotton candy, popcorn, balloons, and face painters. Organizers are now seeking dancers, art vendors, and musicians, as well as clowns, stilt walkers, and similar entertainers who are willing to showcase their talents to help present a community event brimming with creativity and energy. A circus theme will prevail, but performances and artwork are not required to relat...
Amid a serenade of steel drums, Joy Timken, Chair of the 2012 Annual Arts Campaign, announced success for ArtsinStark. “I am proud to say that not only have we reached our goal of raising $1,650,000 for the arts --- we’ve gone over by $5,000.” Timken thanked the crowd of over 100 community leaders and volunteers who attended the victory party on May 23 at ArtiCulture Unlimited. “Seven is our lucky number,” says Timken, “because that along with lots of hard work by volunteers and staff got us here.” She was referring to the fact that the Annual Arts Campaign has made goal ...
Dirty hands and knee pads are a given at this month’s First Friday, as Chalk the Walk returns to the streets on June 1 from 6-10 p.m. in the Canton Arts District. Twenty teams of artists, including Jeff Keirn’s infamous Chalk Monkeys, will be on the loose and running wild with ideas that range from the surreal to the sublime. In addition, the Julliard Arts Center hosts a Battle of the Chalk at Motter & Meadows, across from the Canton Palace Theatre, that will show the free family film, “The Lorax,” at 7:30. Around the corner, at Lynda Tuttle's Art Center, the group Retro Rock Ban...
Night of Performance at legation, a gallery Works by Lynda Abraham, Ryan McDaniel, Ryan Charles Ramer & Jaclyn Surso Friday May 18th, 2012 Performances scheduled from 6:00- 9:00pm Legation, a gallery 1300 West 78 th Street Cleveland, OH 44102 www.legationagallery.com Artist Lynda Abraham’s fascination with human behavior drives her to invent contraptions that alter human behavior, challenging the artist physically and her audiences mentally. On Friday, May 18, in legation gallery, she and three other performance-based artists will provoke Cleveland’s collective conscience. ...
The Ananda Center for the Arts will offer a series of dance workshops kicking off the Choreographers Showcase on Saturday, May 19. The Choreographers Showcase is a day of dance for the dance enthusiast—a chance to observe and learn from an outstanding array of pre-professional, pro-am, and professional choreographers. The event will be held at the historic Lincoln Theatre, 156 Lincoln Way East, in downtown Massillon. On the stage at the Lincoln Theatre, workshops will include Break Dance with Ike Odimgbe from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m., Ballroom with Jonathan Green from noon to 1:15 p.m., Danc...
Bizarre. Interesting. Rare. Surprising. Beautiful. Kitschy. Wondrous. The Massillon Museum’s summer exhibition, The Odditorium, may draw to mind these words. The exhibition will open on Saturday, May 19, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m., with a party like Museum fans have grown to expect. The free indoor/outdoor reception will include food, beverages, and music by The Bizarros. The event will be free and open to everyone; no reservations will be required. Featuring an array of artwork, artifacts, furniture, and oddities, the exhibition will highlight some Massillon Museum visitor favorite...
