Category: Community Conversation
Final Studies: Julia Denlinger
Undergraduate Student, Oberlin
Visual Arts
Title of Exhibition: Love letters to the Land
Final Studies: Patrick Bell
Graduate Student, Kent State University
Ceramics
Title of Exhibition: Frankly
Community Conversations: Shifiting the Cultural Landscape
By Mark Masuoka, Executive Director and CEO What happens when a message doesn’t matter? When all your marketing, promotions and campaigns just don’t work. When the only thing that really matters is to take action, set things in motion, create chaos and watch what happens.This is what artists experience, encounter and explore everyday. The creative process brings together our intentions and initiative in order to make change happen. It’s not about what you talk about; it’s not even what you think about; it’s only about
Community Conversations: Shifting the Cultural Landscape
By Mark Masuoka, Executive Director and CEO But I’m not creative.I don’t have a creative bone in my body.I can’t even draw a straight line.These statements are commonly overheard the moment we propose an art (creative) activity. Whether it be signing up for an art class or just sitting in a meeting and being asking to think “outside of the box”, these apprehensive statements reflect a larger social context beyond the “fear of the unknown”. It points to how people perceive the truth about what is
Community Conversations: Shifting the Cultural Landscape
By Mark Masuoka, Executive Director and CEO What happens when an art museum opens its doors and invites everyone to take part in a community-wide conversation to influence the direction of the museum’s public programs and community initiatives? This is exactly what the Akron Art Museum is undertaking in a series of open forums to initiate meaning discussions about the inner life of a city. Community Conversations is a way to bring together amazing thinkers and doers to engage with the museum and to move