ABOUT SUMMIT ARTSPACE
Summit Artspace is a non-profit arts organization that provides studio, exhibit and programming spaces in Summit County and the surrounding area for local artists and arts organizations; and is a center for art education open to all residents. Contact Summit Artspace at 330-376-8480. On the Web at www.summitartspace.org. Find us on: Facebook, Twitter at @AkronAreaArts, Instagram and Snapchat.
Free parking behind the building at East Market.
Handicap accessible both sites.
Elevator available both sites.
How do young people and even the youngest of children see a perfect world–their idea of what is a utopia? So the YOU-Topia Youth Challenge was created! A utopia is an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. We’ve asked young artists to share their perfect world view in this … Continue reading YOU-Topia Youth Challenge opened virtually May 2
What does your YOU-Topia look like? Artists are constantly responding to the state of the world and creating pertinent work that shapes perspectives and impacts the future. YOU-TOPIA VIRTUAL OPENING MAY 2 Link here to see the exhibit: summitartspace.org/you-topia-virtual. Free access. See a second theme-related show, YOU-Topia Youth Challenge, at: summitartspace.org/you-topia-youth-virtual. A utopia is defined as an imagined place … Continue reading YOU-Topia Juried Art Exhibit opened virtually May 2
Summit Artspace locations in Akron and Barberton are abiding by government directives and alternative operations have moved online. Please check the COVID-19 Alternative Operations page on our website for artist resources, online events, webinar links and more. Our galleries are temporarily closed until further notice but look for announcements of upcoming online events and art … Continue reading 3/29/20 Update about Summit Artspace alternative operations during public health emergency
SO BOSCHIAN: THE EXPLORATION INTO OUR DEEPEST FEARS Hieronymus Bosch was born Jheronimus van Aken in the Netherlands where he lived all of his life from 1450 to 1516. His work was collected during his life time. Today he is seen as a hugely individualistic painter with deep insight into humanity’s desires and deepest fears. … Continue reading Boschian: Beautifully Bizarre Juried Art Exhibit, Feb. 21-March 28
Would you tie yourself to the mast of ship in the middle of a storm at sea to have experience weather and then paint it? Joseph Mallard William Turner (1755-1851), a revered English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist, did just that. Weather has always been the artist’s subject. Now Northeast Ohio arrists bring their weather … Continue reading Weather…love or hate it, it makes for great art in juried show
ARTISTS EMBRACING HERITAGE FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH The Embracing Heritage Juried Art Exhibition at Summit Artspace on East Market speaks to the African American experience in the Akron area, the US and across the globe. The show opens Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, in the Transition Gallery to celebrate Black History Month. Embracing Heritage will honor and embrace the impact … Continue reading Embracing Heritage Juried Art Exhibition for Black History Month 2020
Architecture is an art form that lends itself to become icons of cities and nations. Facing the Façade is a collection depicting how local artists are affected by architecture; how they interpret it or how they choose to deconstruct it. The juried exhibition runs from Jan. 25 to March 7, 2020, at Summit Artspace on … Continue reading Facing the Façade, architecture inspiring art, at Summit Artspace on Tusc
Award-winning Akron artist Joan Colbert kicks-off the year of shows in the Summit Artspace on East Market Welcome Gallery with Finding the Narrative. OPENING RECEPTION The free opening is Thursday, Jan. 16, 4-7 p.m. The show, which is free and open to the public, runs Jan. 16-Feb. 22. WELCOME GALLERY HOURS Summit Artspace’s Welcome Gallery … Continue reading Finding the Narrative with Joan Colbert, Jan. 16-Feb. 22
Artists of Rubber City will showcase photographer Susan Lilley’s The Queen City Parks, featuring the Ohio River front, in The BOX Gallery located at Summit Artspace on East Market. OPENING RECEPTION The exhibition opens Friday, January 10, with a free artist reception 5-8 p.m. Queen City Parks runs through Feb. 8 Admission to the show … Continue reading BOX Gallery features Susie Lilley photos of Queen City parks, Jan. 10-Feb. 8
Local artists in the Friday morning life drawing sessions at the Akron Society of Artists’ studio in Summit Artspace will show their work from Jan. 10 through Feb. 14. OPENING RECEPTION The show opens Friday, Jan. 10, 5-8 p.m. in the ASA third floor gallery at 140 E. Market St., Akron. GALLERY HOURS ASA’s third … Continue reading Akron Society of Artists presents Painting from Life, Jan. 10-Feb.14