The 2012 East Side Fall Avant-Garde Art & Craft Show will feature local handmade talent in the areas of fine arts and crafts! Over 120 Indie/Etsy like artists and crafters will be selling their original handmade items! This trendy art show is something you don’t want to miss! Admission is free. The venue will be supplying a full food concession stand at the event including full bar service. The football game will also be playing on the big screen TVs! A portion of proceeds will benefit the North East Ohio Make-a-Wish foundation. This non-profit organization grants the wishes of children...
Medina’s Art in the Park is a celebration of fine art thrown in the county’s historic Public Square. The event, now in its 38th year, is hosted by the Medina County Art League and helps support the non-profit organization’s scholarship fund for area high-school students planning to study art in college. The free event is expected to draw more than 15,000 attendees. More than 130 artists and artisans from across the country will be displaying and selling their work, which will encompass paintings, blown glass, pottery, sculpture and handmade jewelry. Featured artists will be jeweler Jenni...
The scene looks like something out of a low-budget time-travel movie: Armed with hammers and nails, a swarm of high-school students are laboring away at a huge pyramid, modeled after those in Egypt. Around them, attendees of Canton’s First Friday mill about, equal parts confused and intrigued. The students are using artifacts from the steel and rubber industries — a nice regional touch — to build the hieroglyphic forms that ornament the pyramid. That was on May 6. Now completed, the pyramid is sitting in the lot on the east side of Primo’s Restaurant at the corner of Fourth Street N...
Any student reporter is familiar with Scribbles Coffee Co. in Kent, which is a cool little indie coffee shop with plenty of retro-style seating and books to read, areal hip place. There I met up with Emily Eason, fashion design major at Kent State University. She has put her talents to good use, selling her artwork at a reasonable price, but, more importantly, giving the profits to Invisible Children, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about the poverty in Uganda’s war-torn communities. More specifically, profits were given to a group named “Schools for Schools,” wh...
