Five exhibitions open at Summit Artspace on Friday, July 11, 2025, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Spring exhibitions will be open during public hours on Fridays from Noon to 7:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. through Friday, September 13, 2025.
Summit Artspace’s Spring Exhibitions opening night will showcase an incredible group of local artists in the galleries throughout all three floors of the historic Akron building. The event provides an opportunity to meet exhibiting artists, hear their stories, and engage with the community.
Betty and Howard Taylor Main Gallery
Though We May Roam | Group Exhibition
Artists Lizzi Aronhalt, Andy Curlowe, Lauren Davies, Michelle Droll, Charisse Harris, and Arnold Tunstall explore what it means to call the rustbelt home through a range of mediums and processes in this exhibition. Themes of domesticity, environment, and place all converge to expand our understanding of the world around us and the specific place in it that we claim. The feeling of home can be as personal as the way our blanket smells or as universal as the grass below our feet. Home is often informed and defined in contrast to other places we visit.
Welcome Gallery
Overdose Awareness Exhibition
In partnership with Summit County Public Health
In honor of Overdose Awareness Day on August 31, artists in Summit and contiguous counties created artworks exploring their personal experience with overdose and addiction, honoring a loved one who has died, and serving as an ally for those who have struggled. The day represents the world’s largest annual campaign to end overdose, remember without stigma those who have died, and acknowledge the grief of those left behind.
Intersections Gallery
A Bunch of Landscapes | Cassie Jeffries
Abstract paintings on shaped canvases by Cassie Jeffries are inspired by the environment and its ever-changing landscapes. The subject of landscapes and their natural systems of change, like erosion, growth, and decay, acts as a conduit for processing internal and social anxieties. For the artist, this focus on change makes way for coming to terms with personal griefs. Many of the natural motifs and forms present in the paintings are drawn from Jeffries’ home in Akron, OH.
Forum Gallery
Roots | Juried Exhibition
Curated by Al Macdougall, this exhibition centers around themes of personal histories, familial histories, and paying homage to home- whether that be Akron or an abstract feeling. This theme will also honor Summit Artspace for all it has done for its artists and patrons since its inception. Mediums include—but are not limited to—textile, film, and mixed media photography. Works will emphasize a cultural tie to heritage or documentation.
Horizon Gallery
Covered in Snow | Katelynn Rogers
In this series of photographs, Katelynn Rogers draws connections between environmental decay and social issues impacting women in the state of Ohio. Nature, and specifically trees, became a personal projection of anxieties reflecting the artist’s own healthcare emergency, which led to research into other women’s experiences dealing with domestic abuse and reproductive crises. Motifs like tree branches and spider webs act as visual metaphors for the collective disquietude of local women, and their relationship to the socio-political climate of the state.
