23rd Annual Kaleidoscope Exhibition | Juried Exhibition
Betty and Howard Taylor Main Gallery
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.
Juror’s Statement
As luck would have it, a previous research project led me to read the 1819 treatise in which Sir David Brewster introduced a new invention that he boastfully claimed could “create, in a single hour, what a thousand artists could not invent in the course of a year.” Today this might remind one of artificial intelligence, but Brewster’s device was in fact the same kaleidoscope that gives this exhibition its name. Fittingly, the Kaleidoscope exhibition provided me with an opportunity to be dazzled by a wide range of inventiveness. The members of the Alliance for the Visual Arts have provided beauty, humor, commentary, realism, abstraction, and more. It would have been wrong for me to impose a singular vision upon this diversity, and so my role as juror has instead been to select for individual clarity of technique, message, or concept. I hope that each visit to the exhibition is like giving Brewster’s device a good shake, yielding new and varied impressions beyond any specific intent of mine. This is only possible thanks to the artists who so generously submitted their work, and they have my sincere appreciation. — Jeff Katzin, Juror
Dr. Jeffrey Katzin is Senior Curator at the Akron Art Museum. He specializes in modern and contemporary art with research ranging from painting to photography, film, and video. Katzin has received a certificate in Art Museum Studies from Smith College, a BA from Wesleyan University, an MA from the University of Texas at Austin, and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, where his doctoral dissertation explored the history and potential of abstract photography, with particular focus on Alvin Langdon Coburn’s Vortographs of 1916–17. Since coming to Akron Art Museum in 2019, he has curated several exhibitions, including Keith Haring: Against All Odds, Michelangelo Lovelace: Art Saved My Life, Amanda D. King: Locusts, and Afterimages: Geometric Abstraction and Perception.
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Congratulations to all of our award winners for the 23rd Annual Kaleidoscope Juried Exhibition, on view in the Betty and Howard Taylor Main Gallery from March 6–April 25, 2026.
1st Place: Samantha Schneider, I Promise I’ll Quit Tomorrow, Oil on canvas
2nd Place: Jasmine Gonzales, Untitled (Jack), Mixed media sculpture (clay, resin, acrylic paint, fabric)
3rd Place: Laura Tuokkola, King Me, Antique ironing Board, acrylic paint, wooden chess pieces, wooden hands, brooch, embroidery floss, eye hooks
Honorable Mentions:
- Tom Campbell, Rootstown Gothic, Oil
- Jim Jones, Cancer, and Sagittarius, Acrylic on stretched canvas
- Sharon Frank Mazgaj, Dorothy & Ethel, Colored pencil
- Andrea Schepis, Tick…..Tick….., Acrylic paint on metronome
1- Ruth Matthews | Endless Bales | $500
Soft pastel
CVAC, WAL
2- Michael Davis Seng | Worlds Within Reach | NFS
Photography
AoRC
3- Kim Barnes | The Newness of Spring | $1,875
Mixed Media
CVAC
4- Kathryn Elias | Wild garden | $400
Watercolor, pen and ink, pastels
MCAL
5- R. Thomas Campbell | Rootstown Gothic | NFS
Oil
ASA
6- Daniel Mainzer | The Lighthouse | $350
Photography
AoRC
7- Brad Rice | Inverted QAnon | $1,500
Acrylic
CVAC, MCAL
8- Kayla Billings | Hairy Mary | $300
Ink
ASA, CVAC
9- Tamara Jaeger | Rage: Fuck the Patriarchy | $175
Acrylic with found materials
AoRC
10- Sally S. Heston | “Sue” | $550
Watercolor
ASA, CVAC, WAL, MCAL
11- Jennifer Vincik | Night’s Edge | $2,000
Acrylic paint & metallic pigment on canvas
AoRC
12- Kellie Wolke | Delaware County Fair, Delaware, OH, Sept. 2025 | $180
Inkjet print
CVAC
13- Kevin Paul Hudak | Space Zone | $500
Oil paint on canvas
ASA, AoRC
14- Andrew A Raz | KDUCK3 | $400
Photography/Digital
MCAL
15- Julie Sheil | Renewal, No. 2 | $1,300
Acrylic on canvas
CVAC
16- Anna Romito | Lunch in Flagstaff | NFS
Oil paint
WAL
17- C. Arthur Croyle | Anything was possible | NFS
Acrylic/oil
ASA
18- Sharon Frank Mazgaj | Dorothy & Ethel | $8,000
Colored Pencil
CVAC
19- Darrell Kent | Cleveland’s Flats from the Clark Avenue Bridge (circa 1979) | NFS (prints available)
Ink markers
MCAL
20- James Buckey | As Night, So Day | $330
100% Cotton Cold Press Giclee
AoRC
21- Judy Takács | Themis, Titan Goddess of Justice…and also, 1 John 4:11, Love is Love | $6,000
Oil on canvas with silver leaf
ASA
22- Jasmine Gonzales | Untitled (Jack) | $3,000
Mixed media sculpture (clay, resin, acrylic paint, fabric)
WAL
23- Yu Liu | Sunset Catcher | $500
Watercolor on paper
CVAC
24- Samantha Schneider | I Promise I’ll Quit Tomorrow | $8,000
Oil on canvas
CVAC
25- Kay Downey | “…your dishonor will remain.” | $1,200
Ceramic
CVAC
26- Bridgett Crocker Emerson | Death Becomes Her V | $350
Photography
AoRC
27- Laurie Musser | OVERSEER | $650
Pencil drawing on fine art paper-digital
MCAL
28- Andy Sabol | World Trade Center | $195
Photo
AoRC
29- Debrah Butler | Silence | $2,500
Graphite and colored pencil
CVAC
30- Helen Wilson | Grassland Vessel- Habitat III | NFS
Mixed media assemblage, unryu paper, cast paper, acrylics
CVAC, OSC
31- Leda Lisk | Yellow and Blue Cottage Shoreline | $1,100
Oil
ASA
32- Tricia Kaman | Tracy’s Space | $2,900
Oil
ASA, CVAC
33- Alexandria Joliat | Harmony Blooms | $300
Mixed Media
CVAC
34- Deanna Clucas | Time Out | $360
Watercolor
CVAC, MCAL, WAL
35- Darrell Kent | Nature’s Art at the Art Museum | $500
Ink markers
MCAL
36- Emma Stedman | Untitled | $757
Embroidery
WAL
37- Shirley Ende-Saxe | He Blamed Eve | $600
Collage and acrylic
OSC, WAL, AoRC
38- Dave Repicky | Long cool woman in a red dress | $375
Acrylic, foreign postage
AoRC
39- Brenda Keblesh | “The heart of Affordability” | $125
Collage
OSC
40- Janet Baran | Unraveling the Chaos | NFS
Acrylics
ASA, CVAC, MCAL
41- Laura Tuokkola | King Me | $650
Antique Ironing Board, Acrylic Paint, Wooden Chess Pieces,
Wooden Hands, Brooch, Embroidery Floss, Eye Hooks
AoRC
42- Jessica Palik | Park Plaza | $350
Archival pigment and acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas
AoRC
43- Robert J. Putka | Homage for Cardoon: Death and Rebirth | $2,500
Acrylic on Gallery wrapped canvas
ASA, AoRC
44- Jim Jones | Sagittarius | $5,108
Acrylic on Canvas
ASA, CVAC
45- Jim Jones | Cancer | $5,108
Acrylic on stretched canvas
ASA, CVAC
46- MaryAnn McClellan | Dawn of a New Day | NFS
Acrylic on canvas
WAL
47- Pollock Youngpole | Serenity in Faith | NFS
Photography Digital Art
CVAC
48- Karin Warner | Stillness | $250
Photography
WAL
49- Andrea Schepis | Tick…..Tick….. | $800
Acrylic Paint on Metronome
OSC, AoRC
50- Carol Klingel | Rising From Compost | NFS
Assemblage: found objects, acrylic paint
ASA, AoRC, CVAC, MCAL
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