Tag: local artist
Relief Podcast: Reflection
This monthly podcast brings listeners joy and comfort to their day. The Akron Art Museum’s staff shares insights from their own lives combined with conversations about the collection and interviews with regional artists and musicians. Join us the first Friday of every month at noon. LISTEN NOW! Reflection Seema and Gina talk about the reflections and the various places we find them. Deep Dive with Sloane Sloan explores Dieter Appelt’s photograph Der Fleck auf dem Spiegel, den der Atemhauch schafft. Shop Talk with Tom Roese
Relief Podcast: Capture
This monthly podcast brings listeners joy and comfort to your day. The Akron Art Museum’s staff shares insights from their own lives combined with conversations about the collection and interviews with regional artists and musicians. Join us the first Friday of every month at noon. LISTEN NOW! Capture Seema and Gina talk about the photography as an artist’s tool, choosing subjects for photographs, and what it means to be a photographer. Deep Dive with Sloane Sloan explores Daido Moriyama’s photograph Inu No Kioko Shusho (Memory
Relief Podcast: Togetherness
This monthly podcast brings listeners joy and comfort to your day. The Akron Art Museum’s staff shares insights from their own lives combined with conversations about the collection and interviews with regional artists and musicians. Join us the first Friday of every month at noon. LISTEN NOW! Togetherness Seema and Gina talk about the different forms of “togetherness” and how people have fostered those moments over the past couple of years. Deep Dive with Seema: Thursday by Sam Gilliam Shop Talk with Terence Hammonds Printmaker
Relief Podcast: Nostalgia
This monthly podcast brings listeners joy and comfort for these uncertain times. The Akron Art Museum’s staff shares insights from their own lives combined with conversations about the collection and interviews with regional artists and musicians. Join us the first Friday of every month at noon. LISTEN NOW! Nostalgia This week the topic is Joy. Seema and Gina talk about the fleeting nature of joy and where they’re finding joy in this challenging moment. Deep Dive with Seema: Strawberry Koolaid Heart by Bea Nettles Shop
Up Close with Making Your Mark
The special exhibition Making Your Mark celebrates the power of surface and craftsmanship in authentic works of art. While these aspects of art are better appreciated in real life, the digital does allow viewers to get closer than you can in the galleries. Omid Shekari’s detailed drawings are set off by glistening, textural passages. Upon close inspection one sees the surface is composed of metal shavings. Shekari grinds shell casings with a grinder before applying the metal to his drawings. Erykah Townsend uses modge podge
Making Your Mark
Realism is often a sticking point for viewers. “My kid can do that” is a refrain heard in many galleries. Working artists usually have a well-honed ability to render life realistically, but some of them choose to diverge from that representational approach. Seemingly simple works, bare squiggles on paper, require incredible control of a brush or careful cajoling of a monoprint plate. The new exhibition Making Your Mark offers a panoply of fine craftsmanship. Included are works by nine regional artists, individuals employing their craft
Relief Podcast: Episode 10: Joy
This week the topic is Joy. Seema and Gina talk about the fleeting nature of joy and where they’re finding joy in this challenging moment.
Relief Podcast: Episode 9: Collage
This week the topic is Collage. Seema and Gina talk about how collage can include everything from mood boards and scrapbooks, to the large scale and monumental works in the museum’s collection..
Relief Podcast: Episode 8: Play
This week the topic is Play. Seema and Gina discuss how to stay playful during times of stress and how artists use play in their work.
Relief Podcast: Episode 7: Alternatives
This week the topic is Alternatives. Seema and Gina talk about how the world is turning to creative alternatives during the pandemic and what alternatives can mean to artists.
