Winter Exhibitions Booklet
Betty and Howard Taylor Main Gallery
23rd Annual Kaleidoscope Exhibition | Juried Exhibition
Kaleidoscope is an annual holiday show presented by the Alliance for the Visual Arts (AVA). This show is open to all members of AVA organizations: Akron Society of Artists (ASA), Artists of Rubber City (AoRC), Cuyahoga Valley Art Center (CVAC), Medina County Art League (MCAL), Ohio Collage Society (OSC), and Women’s Art League of Akron (WAL). This year’s exhibition is juried by Jeffrey Katzin, PhD, Senior Curator at the Akron Art Museum.
Welcome Gallery
Confessions of a Comic Book Artist | Amanda Branham
Summit DD artist Amanda “A.L.” Branham’s showcases her practice from 1996 to the present in Confessions of a Comic Book Artist. Inspired by family, fellow artists, music, her friend Kosperry, and influences ranging from classic Disney and Looney Tunes to Don Bluth and Jim Davis, the work reflects her personal story through original comic characters. A.L. has also expanded her practice to include colored pencil, pyrography, acrylic, and oil painting, often highlighting the fantasy themes that define her work.
Intersections Gallery
Diversity | Canton Artists League
Canton Artists League is a welcome forum for all artists, photographers, and craftspeople to meet and help further their creativity through exhibits, workshops, and a shared bond of talent and imagination. Members live in Stark County, Ohio, and neighboring areas. Canton Artists League is an affiliate of the Canton Museum of Art.
Forum Gallery
Never Just a Quilt | Group Exhibition
This exhibition brings together artists working in traditional and contemporary quilts, quilt patterns and motifs, and illustrated mixed-media artworks. The diverse group consists of Taylor Clapp, Laura Engler, Meryl Engler, Denise Harrison, Davis Saunders, and Stephanie Stewart showcasing a multitude of perspectives honoring quilt traditions of women, people of color, and the queer community.
Horizon Gallery
It Is What It Is | Linda McConaughy
It Is What It Is by Linda McConaughy gathers four interrelated bodies of work utilizing multiple mediums including geometric abstract paintings, quilts sewn from reclaimed single-use plastic bags, and layered mixed-media pieces that explore the ways internal dialogue shapes perception, identity, and the material world. Through language, repetition, and tactile construction, the works reveal how self-understanding is formed—and often constrained—by habitual thought, cultural messages, and the aesthetics of reassurance. Across all four series, pattern serves as a visual and conceptual metaphor—repetition as reflection, form as self-examination.
