Press Releases

news release Akron Art Museum Joins Institutions Nationwide in the 10th Summer of Blue Star Museums

May 21, 2019

news release Akron Art Museum Announces $25 million Centennial Campaign with Bold and Audacious Goals for the Future

May 14, 2019

news release Seema Rao to Join Akron Art Museum as Senior Experience Officer

May 10, 2019

news release Akron Art Museum Marks the 35th Season of Downtown@Dusk with Local Favorites in a Beautiful Garden Space

May 9, 2019

news release Joe Vitone Explores 20 Years of Family Life in and around Akron in Akron Art Museum Exhibition

April 11, 2019

news release Artist Nick Cave to Bring HEARD•AKRON to Life at Akron Art Museum

April 10, 2019

news release The Akron Art Museum Celebrates Creative Early Learning Opportunities with BabyFest ‘19

March 26, 2019

news release Akron Art Museum Presents the Gravity-Defying Scenes of Mernet Larsen

March 13, 2019

news release Akron Art Museum Calls for Submissions to Open World Arcade

March 5, 2019

news release 12th Annual Art & Ale at the Akron Art Museum Expands to Offer an Enhanced Experience

January 29, 2019

news release Akron Art Museum Showcases Artist Nick Cave’s Dazzling Mixed-media Artworks

January 22, 2019

news release See an Award-Winning Documentary about Street Photographer Garry Winogrand at Akron Art Museum

January 10, 2019

news release Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration for Families at Akron Art Museum

January 8, 2019

news release AfriCOBRA Co-Founders Wadsworth and Jae Jarrell to Speak at Akron Art Museum

December 5, 2018

news release Akron Art Museum is #GivingBackAgain

November 13, 2018

news release Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Curator to Speak at Akron Art Museum

November 1, 2018

news release Akron Art Museum Presents Panel on Collecting Art

October 10, 2018

news release Akron Art Museum Celebrates Two Major Exhibitions This Fall

October 4, 2018

news release Quirky Characters Star in Brian Bress: Pictures Become You

September 18, 2018

news release FRONT Artist Nicholas Buffon to Speak at the Akron Art Museum

September 14, 2018

news release Akron Art Museum Presents Folded, Crumpled and Sewn Paintings and Prints in The Fabricators

September 5, 2018

news release The Akron Art Museum Wants You to Connect with Dot, a New Digital Tour Guide

July 24, 2018

news release Flights of Imagination with Planes, Trains & Automobiles at the Akron Art Museum

June 26, 2018

news release Live Creative Summer Studio for Families at the Akron Art Museum

May 30, 2018

news release The Akron Art Museum Brings the Sounds of Summer Back to the Bud and Susie Rogers Garden with Downtown@Dusk’s 34th Season

May 1, 2018

news release The Akron Art Museum Presents an Early Childhood Mashup with BabyFest ’18 and Family Day

March 29, 2018

news release The Akron Art Museum Presents the Unconventional Photographic Explorations of Jerry Birchfield

March 15, 2018

news release Acclaimed Artist Tara McPherson Brings Her Traveling Pop-Up Shop Back to the Akron Art Museum

March 6, 2018

news release Akron Art Museum Presents New Work by Northeast Ohio Artists in Frameworks

February 27, 2018

news release Akron Art Museum to Receive Grant from National Endowment for the Arts for Upcoming Exhibition Open World: Video Games & Contemporary Art

February 7, 2018

news release Check Out Original Works of Art Just Like Books at the Akron Art Library

January 31, 2018

news release FRONT International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art

January 30, 2018

news release Highly Anticipated: Akron Art Museum’s 11th Annual Art & Ale

January 29, 2018

news release Akron Art Museum Presents the Monumental, Awe-Inspiring Works of Renowned Ceramic Artist in Jun Kaneko: Blurred Lines

January 23, 2018

news release Opening Party for Ed Emberley Exhibition at the Akron Art Museum

December 14, 2017

news release Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration for Families at Akron Art Museum

December 13, 2017

news release Akron Art Museum Welcomes Thousands of New Members on #GivingBACKTuesday

November 30, 2017

news release Akron Art Museum Renews Commitment to Community, Reopening on Tuesdays

November 7, 2017

news release Akron Art Museum and J.M. Smucker Company Partner to Broaden Access to Art

October 24, 2017

news release Artist Rachel Sussman to Fill Cracks in Akron Art Museum Floor with Gold

October 17, 2017

news release The Kaleidoscopic World of Ed Emberley Comes to the Akron Art Museum

October 12, 2017

news release Knight Foundation Announces Major Gift to Akron Art Museum to engage more people in art

September 28, 2017

news release All That Glitters: This Fall Akron Art Museum Presents Alchemy: Transformations in Gold

September 6, 2017

news release Akron Art Museum Presents Micro/Macro: Views of Earth by Marilyn Bridges and Jeannette Klute

August 17, 2017

news release Artists Do the Talking in August, September at the Akron Art Museum

August 3, 2017

news release Akron Art Museum Presents the Sometimes Weighty, Sometimes Lighthearted Heavy Metal

July 25, 2017

news release A Playful Exhibition of Art that Looks Back: Akron Art Museum Presents Find a Face

July 11, 2017

news release 2017 Akron Art Museum Auction Celebrates Art and Wine in Akron Ohio

June 13, 2017

news release Akron Art Museum’s Bud and Susie Rogers Garden Activated and Paid for

June 6, 2017

news release Akron Art Museum Presents Rarely Seen Artworks with Serial Intent

May 23, 2017

news release Akron Art Museum Names Ellen Rudolph Its New Chief Curator

May 19, 2017

news release Treat Mom to an Art Experience at the Akron Art Museum’s Mother’s Day Tea

April 19, 2017

news release Summer Camp in Downtown Akron at the Akron Art Museum’s CampCreate

April 12, 2017

news release Four New Neighborhoods Host Inside|Out in Summer 2017

April 5, 2017

news release Acclaimed Artist Beth Cavener to Speak at Akron Art Museum

April 4, 2017

news release A Free Family Day at the Akron Art Museum with the Spark! Family Film Fest

March 2, 2017

news release Award-Winning Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier to Visit Akron Art Museum

February 23, 2017

news release Acclaimed Artist Tara McPherson to Visit Akron Art Museum for a Pop-Up Shop and Members-Only Q&A

February 21, 2017

news release Akron Art Museum Expands Inside|Out Project for 2017

February 16, 2017

news release Akron Art Museum Presents Artworks You Can Really Feel with Please Touch

February 14, 2017

news release 10th Annual Art & Ale Beer Tasting Event returns to Akron Art Museum with Surprises

February 7, 2017

news release Akron Art Museum Presents Varied, Shifting Views of Family in Photography Exhibition

February 1, 2017

news release Akron Art Museum Presents the Weird, Incongruous and Grotesque with Gross Anatomies

January 24, 2017

news release Akron Art Museum Presents the Only Midwest Exhibition of Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose

January 17, 2017

news release Akron Art Museum Open in Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

January 3, 2017

news release Last Look Tour of Intersections: Artists Master Line and Space at the Akron Art Museum

December 28, 2016

news release Akron Art Museum Joins the Global #GivingTuesday Movement, Pledges to Fund the Akron Art Library

November 8, 2016

news release An Art-Full Fall for Kids and Families at the Akron Art Museum

September 20, 2016

news release Bryan de Boer to Join the Akron Art Museum as Director of Advancement

September 7, 2016

news release Theaster Gates and the Black Monks of Mississippi to Bring “A Cultural Revival” to Akron

August 31, 2016

news release Akron Art Museum to Showcase Connection Points of 2D and 3D Art in Intersections: Artists Master Line and Space

August 25, 2016

news release Fun Art That’s No Joke: Cleveland Artist Jimmy Kuehnle to Fill Akron Art Museum Gallery with a Giant, Soft Sculpture in Wiggle, Giggle, Jiggle

July 27, 2016

news release Inside|Out Returns in August, Will Transform into the Akron Art Library

July 19, 2016

news release Akron Art Museum to Showcase Photographs of National Park Service Areas with Our Land

July 12, 2016

news release Kids Tune In to Their Inner Rock Stars this Summer at Akron Art Museum

June 21, 2016

news release Downtown@Dusk to Provide a Summer Soundtrack to the Bud and Susie Rogers Garden of the Akron Art Museum

June 20, 2016

news release Bud and Susie Rogers Garden Opening Celebration Set for July 16, Rogers Family to be Honored

June 17, 2016

news release Mark Mothersbaugh to Receive Key to the City, Speak at Akron-Summit County Public Library

May 16, 2016

news release 9th Annual Art & Ale Beer Tasting Event returns to Akron Art Museum

February 9, 2016

news release Engaging Animals at the Akron Art Museum in Animal As Muse

January 27, 2016

news release Akron Art Museum Expands Inside|Out Project for 2016

January 21, 2016

news release Akron Art Museum Presents a Closer Look at Paper with Its Upcoming Photography Exhibition PULP

January 19, 2016

news release NEO Geo Artists Lead Tours at the Akron Art Museum through Early 2016

January 6, 2016

news release Akron Art Museum Presents Lighthearted Look at Images of Food in Snack

December 10, 2015

news release National Endowment for the Arts Awards More Than $27.6 Million Across Nation Includes $20,000 awarded to the Akron Art Museum

December 9, 2015

news release: Island of Misfit Toys Exhibition Showcases Students’ Creations along with Professional Artists

November 17, 2015

news release: Akron Art Museum Presents Contemporary Geometric Abstraction from Northeast Ohio in NEO Geo

October 15, 2015

news release: Extended Moments at the Akron Art Museum Presents the Work of Celebrated Photographer Andrea Modica

August 27, 2015

news release: Photography-Related Programs this Fall at the Akron Art Museum

August 25, 2015

news release: Akron Art Museum and MOCA Cleveland Partner to Present Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia

August 20, 2015

news release: Partnership with Transformer Station Brings Choice: Contemporary Art from the Akron Art Museum to Cleveland Audiences

August 4, 2015

Rock and Roll Photographer Janet Macoska to Present a Free Artist Talk at Akron Art Museum

July 28, 2015

Outdoor Art Installations Coming to Three New Neighborhoods with Inside|Out

July 16, 2015

news release: Akron Art Museum to Create a One Acre Art Park in Downtown Akron

July 9, 2015

news release: Charles Beneke: Specter Creates a Dialogue about Climate Change at the Akron Art Museum

July 2, 2015

news release: “Build It” Explores Architecture with Art and Constructive Play at the Akron Art Museum

June 25, 2015

news release: Akron Art Museum Names Andrea Modica as the 2015 Knight Purchase Award Winner

June 12, 2015

Akron Art Museum to Hold Block Parties For Community

June 11, 2015

news release: El Anatsui Awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at Venice Biennale

May 21, 2015

news release: Akron Art Museum Presents Photographic Evidence with Proof

April 30, 2015

news release: Staged to Present Complex, Orchestrated Photographs at the Akron Art Museum

April 23, 2015

Akron Art Museum to Celebrate Inside|Out with a Block Party

April 3, 2015

Slide Jam: Beauty Reigns

March 3, 2015

Altered Landscapes

February 14, 2015

The 8th Annual Art and Ale

February 9, 2015

Message Matters: A Year-Long Message of Love to Akron

February 3, 2015

Inside|Out: Community Kick Off Meeting

January 22, 2015

Living with Art

January 13, 2015

Inside|Out Pop Up Caroling

December 20, 2014

Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Modern Painting

December 11, 2014

Inside|Out : Akron Art Museum
to Bring Art into the Community

November 18, 2014

Christopher Pekoc: Hand Made

October 31, 2014

John Pearson: Intuitive Structures

September 10, 2014

Community Conversations

May 6, 2014

Make Your Mark

May 5, 2014

The Talking Cure

May 2, 2014

Special Art Installations at the Akron Art Museum

April 8, 2014

Language in Art

March 20, 2014

Slide Jam

March 3, 2014

Diana Al-Hadid: Nolli’s Orders Held Over at the Akron Art Museum!

February 25, 2014

Tony Feher

February 20, 2014

7th Annual Art and Ale

February 13, 2014

Invitation to Stare: Photographic Portraits

January 31, 2014

Multiplicity: Contemporary Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

October 1, 2013

Monumental Sculpture Transforms Akron Art Museum Collection Gallery

October 1, 2013

Visit the Akron Art Museum for FREE THURSDAY Starting October 3

September 1, 2013

Get Creative: Fun For All Ages

September 1, 2013

Carol Murphy Returns to the Akron Art Museum

September 1, 2013

With a Trace: Photographs of Absence

July 1, 2013

Akron Art Museum to create new exhibitions, deeper community connections with Knight Foundation support

July 1, 2013

Real/Surreal

June 1, 2013

Akron Art Museum Board Appoints New Leader

Mark Masuoka named Executive Director and CEO

May 1, 2013

The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats

March 1, 2013

Line Color Illusion: 40 Years of Julian Stanczak

March 1, 2013

Draw Me a Story

February 1, 2013

Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders

January 1, 2013

Museum's 90th Anniversary Year Crescendos With a Pledge of a Major Gift

December 21, 2012

Akron Art Museum Announces Interim Director

December 21, 2012

Adolph Gottlieb: Sculptor

October 17, 2012

Family Drop In Day: Handle with Care

October 16, 2012

Partnership with Akron Area Arts Alliance's ArtCetera

October 8, 2012

New Artifacts: Works by Brent Kee Young and Sungsoo Kim

October 5, 2012

Akron Art Museum Director to Step Down after Record Tenure

New Chief Curator to Start August 20, 2012

August 13, 2012

Robert Stivers: Veiled Image

July 28, 2012

Akron Art Museum Introduces Two New Admission Policies

May 1, 2012

Akron Art Museum Organizes and Premieres National Tour Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui

April 1, 2012

Treat Mom to a “String of Hearts” at the Akron Art Museum

April 1, 2012

Christie’s offers a Contemporary Masterpiece from the Akron Art Museum

March 1, 2012

Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster

February 1, 2012

Ray Turner: Population

February 1, 2012

String of Hearts: Photographs by Bea Nettles

February 1, 2012

Celebrate the Akron Art Museum 90th Anniversary

January 1, 2012

Akron Art Museum and Tuesday Musical Association's Fuze! Concert Series Returns

January 1, 2012

Extended Holiday Hours 2011

December 1, 2011

Works by Kiki Smith and Trenton Doyle Hancock enter museum collection

December 1, 2011

Akron Art Museum Announces Major Gift of Paul Stankard Glass

September 16, 2011

Akron Art Museum Online Collection now available

August 1, 2011

Michelle Droll: Landslide Between a Rock and a Place

August 1, 2011

SuperNatural: Landscapes by Bruce Checefsky and Barry Underwood

August 1, 2011

Art Blooms! Kaleidoscope 2011

August 1, 2011

Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism

July 1, 2011

The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Ohio

June 1, 2011

Flora

June 1, 2011

Spark! Film Fest Family Drop in Day

May 15, 2011

Kaleidoscope Quilts: The Art of Paula Nadelstern

May 1, 2011

M.C. Escher Surpasses Attendance Expectations

May 1, 2011

Yayoi Kusama’s Arm Chair will be in a retrospective exhibition across the world until September 2012

May 1, 2011

The Akron Art Museum Presents Downtown@Dusk

May 1, 2011

Akron Art Museum To Participate In Blue Star Museums

May 1, 2011

Akron Art Museum Receives Henry Luce Foundation Funding To Reinstate Curatorial Positions

April 1, 2011

All Star Jazz: The Photographs of Herman Leonard

March 1, 2011

Sarah Kabot: Unfolding Space

January 1, 2011

M.C. Escher: Impossible Realities

January 1, 2011

Akron Art Museum and Tuesday Musical Association’s FUZE! Concert Series Returns to Intimate Museum Setting

January 1, 2011

Monet's Wisteria On View at the Akron Art Museum

December 1, 2010

Trick-or-Treat on South High Street

October 1, 2010

Pattern ID Exhibition to Travel

September 1, 2010

Culture Revolution: Contemporary Chinese Paintings from the Allen Memorial Art Museum

September 1, 2010

Student Membership Program Enters Second Year at the Museum

September 1, 2010

Grape Expectations! A Casual Wine and Food Tasting at the Museum

September 1, 2010

Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present

August 1, 2010

Museum Announces Re-Accreditation

August 1, 2010

The Akron Art Museum Presents Downtown@Dusk 2010

June 1, 2010

Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore

May 1, 2010

15th Annual Akron Wine Auction to be Held at the Museum for the First Time Ever on Saturday, June 12, 2010

May 1, 2010

Arctic Re-visions: Isaac Julien's True North

May 1, 2010

Akron Art Museum Acquires Two New Artworks from Pattern ID Exhibition

May 1, 2010

Akron Art Museum to Participate in Blue Star Museum Program

May 1, 2010

Win a Three-Year Lexus Lease in "Green" Raffle to Benefit the Akron Art Museum

March 1, 2010

Looking for the American Dream: Andrew Borowiec's Ohio Photographs

February 1, 2010

FUZE! Concert Series Returns to the Akron Art Museum

January 1, 2010

Annual Island of Misfit Toys Workshop to be Held Saturday, December 12

December 1, 2009

Third Thursday Concert & Holiday mART

December 1, 2009

Pattern ID Opens at the Akron Art Museum January 23, 2010

December 1, 2009

One Night | Three Parties - SWITCH Returns to the Akron Art Museum

October 1, 2009

Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School is now in Akron!
First event to be held at the Akron Art Museum

October 1, 2009

Trick-or-Treat on South High Street at the Akron Art Museum

October 1, 2009

The Akron Art Museum Book Club Returns

October 1, 2009

Akron Art Museum Features Animated Short Created by Medina Native

October 1, 2009

The Akron Art Museum Presents Nuclear Enchantment: Photographs by Patrick Nagatani

September 1, 2009

The Akron Art Museum Presents The Legend of John Brown

September 1, 2009

Don't Miss the Akron Art Museum Appraisal Affair

September 1, 2009

Akron Art Museum Names New Director of Development

September 1, 2009

Third Thursdays at the Akron Art Museum Begin in October

September 1, 2009

Sample Downtown’s Cultural Delights the First Sunday of Each Month

August 1, 2009

Hattie's Café Express Now Open at the Akron Art Museum

July 1, 2009

The Akron Art Museum Presents Familiar Faces: Chuck Close in Ohio Collections

July 1, 2009

The Akron Art Museum Presents an Exhibition to Challenge the Limits of Art

June 1, 2009

Travel Channel Host Lee Sandstead to Lecture at the Akron Art Museum

May 1, 2009

Akron Art Museum Presents Two Days of Wine:
14th Annual Wine Auction
June 12 - 13, 2009

May 1, 2009

The Akron Art Museum Presents The Knight Purchase Award: Helen Levitt

May 1, 2009

William Wegman: Fay Comes to the Akron Art Museum

April 1, 2009

The Akron Art Museum Introduces New Book Club

April 1, 2009

The Global Artistry of Leo and Diane Dillon

March 1, 2009

New Operating Hours and "Free Day" at the Akron Art Museum

February 1, 2009

The Akron Art Museum Presents Lee Friedlander's Factory Valleys

February 1, 2009

The Akron Art Museum and Tuesday Musical Association Present Second FUZE! Concert

February 1, 2009

Art and Ale Returns to the Akron Art Museum

February 1, 2009

Empty Bowl Project at the Akron Art Museum

February 1, 2009

The Akron Art Museum Presents Edward Weston: Life Work

January 1, 2009

Along Water Street: New Work by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson

January 1, 2009

The Akron Art Museum and Tuesday Musical Association to Present FUZE!

January 1, 2009

New Words 2009 Poetry Contest

January 1, 2009

Third Annual Island of Misfit Toys Workshop Gives Old Toys New Life

December 1, 2008

Come In From the Cold: Winter Programming at the Akron Art Museum

December 1, 2008

The Akron Art Museum Joins 65 Museums Around the World to Present Heresies: A Retrospective by Pedro Meyer

November 1, 2008

Local Artist Featured in Dreamland: Recent Paintings by Neil MacDonald

November 1, 2008

Local Bands Rock Out at the Akron Art Museum: Third Thursdays Concert Series to Begin October 16, 2008

October 1, 2008

The Akros Percussion Collective Presents Snap, Crackle, Pop! at the Akron Art Museum

October 1, 2008

One Night | Three Parties: Second Annual SWITCH Fundraiser to Benefit the Akron Art Museum

October 1, 2008

Akron Art Museum to Receive Major Donation of Vogel Works

October 1, 2008

The Akron Art Museum Extends Free Admission to All Veterans, November 9 - 15, 2008

October 1, 2008

The Akron Art Museum Presents Toying With Imagination: A Plastic Camera Exhibition

October 1, 2008

"Fall" Back Into Programming at the Akron Art Museum

October 1, 2008

Organizational Restructuring Leads to New Positions and Promotions at the Akron Art Museum

September 1, 2008

Witness Firsthand the Installation of Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Machines at Play

September 1, 2008

Unveiled: Recent Acquisitions from the Museum's Collection On View Aug. 30 - Nov. 30, 2008

August 1, 2008

Art That Lives Moves and Sings at the Akron Art Museum - Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Machines At Play

August 1, 2008

Three Pieces of Akron Art Museum's Permanent Collection Will Travel to other Major Museum Exhibitions

August 1, 2008

Happy First Birthday to the New Akron Art Museum!

July 1, 2008

Smells Like Teen Spirit Exhibition On View July 19 - October 12, 2008

July 1, 2008

Museum Challenges Local Photographers

July 1, 2008

Elizabeth M. Wilson named Director of Marketing Communication

July 1, 2008

The Akron Art Museum presents John Heartfield vs. Nazi Germany, On View Aug. 30 - Nov. 30, 2008

July 1, 2008

The Akron Art Museum and METRO RTA Partner for Community Benefit

June 1, 2008

The Akron Art Museum Celebrates Artists with Disabilities at its Saturday Family Drop-In Day, June 14, 2008

June 1, 2008

American Masters of Art Nouveau - The Art of Arthur and Lucia Mathews Coming to the Akron Art Museum

June 1, 2008

The Akron Art Museum's Popular Outdoor Concert Series Downtown@Dusk Returns for its 24th Season

June 1, 2008

Akron Art Museum's Mitchell Kahan Wins Cleveland Arts Prize's Highest Honor

June 1, 2008

Akron Art Museum Wins 2008 RIBA International Award, Finalist for Prestigious Lubetkin Prize

June 1, 2008

Wine X III: A Weekend Celebration of Wine Kicks off with a Wine Tasting at Akron Art Museum

May 1, 2008

Wine X III: A Weekend Celebration of Wine

May 1, 2008

Bill Brandt: Shadows and Substance at the Akron Art Museum

April 1, 2008
  
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