Category: Community Conversations
Final Studies: Brian Tom
Undergraduate Student, Oberlin College
Visual Art and Psychology
Title of Exhibition: The Rest In Pieces
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: Art and Entrepreneurship
By Mark Masuoka, Executive Director and CEO Art and Entrepreneurship are typically two subjects that occupy polar opposite positions in society. What is the role of innovation in the non-profit sector? Art (creative process) and business (entrepreneurial spirit) are forever linked by the fact that there is no innovation without creativity. Both industries thrive when the focus is on fulfilling a mission, not the bottomline. Employees want to be inspired, customers want to know that their investment is making a difference and as a result,
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