Though We May Roam | Group Exhibition
Betty and Howard Taylor Main Gallery
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.
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1. Lizzi Aronhalt | Elsewhere At Home (Castle, Broadway, Alberti) | $5,750
Acrylic paint, flashe, charcoal on canvas
8’ x 6’
2. Michelle Droll | Dust Bowling | $128
Ceramic
9” x 9”x 9”
3. Michelle Droll | Flue | $185
Ceramic, acrylic, cardboard, pigmented silicone
11 “ x 18” x 2”
4. Arnold Turnstall | Unintentional Still Life, Akron, 2022 – 2025 | $250 each
Archival inkjet prints
11″ x 8.5″ in. each
5. Lizzi Aronhalt | Elsewhere, A Conversation Across Town (Bowery and Portage Path) | $1,200
Acrylic paint, charcoal on canvas
24” x 36”
6. Arnold Tunstall | Now Leasing (Akron Savings), Main St., Akron, Aug. 2019 | $750
Toned gelatin silver prints
16″ x 16″ with frame
7. Arnold Tunstall | Indian Mural, Main St., Akron, Nov. 2017 | $750
Toned gelatin silver prints
16″ x 16″ with frame
8. Arnold Tunstall | Believe, Akron, Feb. 2022 | $750
Toned gelatin silver prints
16″ x 16″ with frame
9. Arnold Tunstall | The Bank, Main St., Akron, 1995 | $750
Toned gelatin silver prints
16″ x 16″ with frame
10. Andy Curlowe | Quilt | POR
Wood block acrylic paint on paper
11″ x 11″
11. Andy Curlowe | Longevity of Bones | POR
Paint on cedar and pine and wood shavings
12. Lizzi Aronhalt | Reaching | $750
Acrylic paint, charcoal on canvas
24” x 18”
13. Arnold Tunstall | Outside Rack, Highland Square, Akron, Sept. 2021 | $750
Toned gelatin silver prints
16″ x 16″ with frame
14. Arnold Tunstall | Reflection with Creche, Main St. Akron, Nov. 2017 | NFS- Courtesy of Curated Storefront
Inkjet on canvas
5′ x 5′
15. Andy Curlowe | 2865 | NFS
Acrylic paint and pencil on linen
7″ x 14″
16. Michelle Droll | Pipeworks | $185
Acrylic, foam
22” x 18” x 3”
17. Lizzi Aronhalt | Zai shows Aunt Bean his Garden (Uhler and Cuyahoga) | $3,000
Acrylic paint, flashe, charcoal on canvas
40″ x 30″
18. Michelle Droll | Second Nature | $438
Mixed media
36” x 48”x 10”
19. Andy Curlowe | Valley to a Peak to a Valley to a Peak | NFS
Acrylic paint and pencil on linen
45″ x 49″
20. Lauren Davies | DIY: A Man’s Home is His Castle | $2,200
Installation made from home construction materials
65” x 65″
21. Lizzi Aronhalt | Elsewhere At Rest (Market, Cuyahoga, and St. Ann’s) | $1,600
Acrylic paint, flashe, charcoal on stretched fabric
36” x 36”
22. Lauren Davies | Yaddo 3 | $850
Photographic print on rag paper
16” x 12”
23. Lauren Davies | Yaddo 2 | $850
Photographic print on rag paper
16” x 12”
24. Lauren Davies | Yaddo 1 | $850
Photographic print on rag paper
16” x 12”
25. Andy Curlowe | A Palisade And A Fire | NFS
Acrylic paint and pen on linen
65″ x 72.5″
26. Lizzi Aronhalt | Elsewhere, Lonely (Cedar) | $1,150
Acrylic paint, acrylic ink, charcoal on canvas
24″ x 36″
27. Arnold Tunstall | Planters (Old Peanut Shop), Main St., Akron, Nov. 2017 | $750
Toned gelatin silver prints
16″ x 16″ with frame
28. Arnold Tunstall | Eat, Main St., Akron, 1995 | $750
Toned gelatin silver prints
16″ x 16″ with frame
29. Arnold Tunstall | Uncovered Lawson’s Sign, S. Main St., Akron, 2002 | $750
Toned gelatin silver prints
16″ x 16″ with frame
30. Michelle Droll | Acid Rain | $357
Mixed media
35” x 15”x 4”
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Artist Bios
Lizzi Aronhalt is a painter, muralist, and art educator based in Akron, Ohio. Her architecturally and botanically inspired works explore themes of memory, place, and the passing of time. Aronhalt holds a B.S. in Art Education with a minor in 2-D media studies from Miami University. After spending two years living in Eastern Europe, she returned to her hometown, where she currently lives and works as a resident artist at Summit Artspace. Her work has been featured in galleries and community spaces across Northeast Ohio, and her vibrant large-scale murals can be found throughout local parks, businesses, and nonprofit organizations.
“As an artist, I seek to understand and make sense of the world around me through drawing and painting,” Aronhalt writes. “Painting for me is a method to better understand life and to work through my own experiences, both mundane and profound. Drawing frees my mind to consider and to wander.”
This body of work is a deeply personal exploration of Akron – its structures, streets, and spirit – as experienced through the lens of someone who has long called it home. “It has been one of the honors of my life to render Akron as I experience it: all its glory, complexity, and sometimes pain.” This series also reintroduces the figure into Aronhalt’s practice, highlighting the influence of family and personal relationships on her evolving view of place. “Their presence and our relationships mirror the one I have with Akron, both lovely and complex.” Through this ongoing reflection, Aronhalt captures fleeting impressions of how we carry and reshape our histories over time.
Andy Curlowe is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the enduring tension between nature and industry. Drawing from the mountainous terrain of his youth and the industrial backbone of his adopted home in Cleveland, Curlowe crafts a visual language that balances precision with chaos, geometry with wilderness. “Each line narrates the illusion,” he writes, “all while emphasizing the void.” His paintings and mixed media works are layered with geo-forms and natural textures that blur distinctions between place and time, exploring the ambiguous boundaries where human ambition meets the sublime force of the environment.
In this current body of work, Curlowe expands beyond painting to include sculpture and printmaking, continuing his exploration of landscape as a metaphor for longevity, impact, and stewardship – of both place and self. “These works,” he notes, “go beyond representation. They are about how we relate to the world around us – the histories embedded in land, and the consequences of our footprint.”
Born just across the Mohawk River from Schenectady, New York, Curlowe was raised between the Adirondack wilderness and post-industrial remnants. His creative foundation was shaped by a wildly independent mother who encouraged exploration and invention, “wandering the woods and painting teepees made from old bed sheets.” He earned a BFA in painting and drawing from Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts, before relocating to Cleveland in 2006 with his wife, Laura, in search of community, studio space, and affordability. Since then, Curlowe has become deeply rooted in the Northeast Ohio arts scene while also finding continued inspiration in time spent at a family cabin in Royalton, Vermont restoring wooden structures, thinking beneath tall pines, and building with his hands.
His work has been exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally, and is represented by The Maybaum Gallery in San Francisco.
Lauren Davies is an interdisciplinary artist whose work blends photography, sculpture, textiles, and historical research to explore memory, place, and transformation. After earning her MFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute, Davies spent decades in California as both a practicing artist and nonprofit gallery director. Eventually, she returned to her Rust Belt roots, relocating to Cleveland – an experience that catalyzed a significant shift in her creative process.
“Over the past ten years,” she writes, “this geographic relocation has radically expanded my approach to artmaking as I took a headlong dive into combining historical research into new and experimental works.” Her recent projects include Industry Unraveled, a photo/textile study of abandoned manufacturing sites across the Rust Belt; Incarceration: Solitary Objects, which investigates a condemned Ohio prison through textile and photographic processes; and Stories About Stories, a current body of work rooted in childhood memories of rural Mississippi. Together, these works function as what she describes as “experiential responses to locations where I have previously lived and ultimately left a lingering impression on me.”
Davies’ work has received numerous accolades, including a Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Award and multiple Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council. She has completed residencies at Yaddo (2024), the Wurlitzer Foundation (2023), and the Joan Mitchell Center (2022), as well as past residencies at MASS MoCA, the California Academy of Sciences, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Her work has been exhibited at Transformer Station, SHED Projects, the Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, the Fuller Craft Museum, and in the Rust Belt Biennial. Reviews of her projects have appeared in Art in America, Photograph Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, The Plain Dealer, Art Papers, and Temporary Art Review. She currently lives and works in a historic rural village near Cleveland, Ohio.
Michelle Droll grew up in Endicott, New York and holds a BS in Construction Management from Utica College of Syracuse University (1992). After moving to Akron, Ohio in 1995, she pursued her passion for the arts, earning a BFA in Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2002 and an MFA in Painting from Kent State University in 2004. Her work has been exhibited at SPACES, MOCA Cleveland, and the Akron Art Museum, as well as at the Indianapolis Art Center and in galleries across New York and Pennsylvania. In 2024, one of her works was acquired by the Rutgers Cancer Institute in New Jersey. Droll balances her art practice with her full-time role as a project manager at Enbridge Gas Ohio.
“In my artistic practice, I immerse myself in a realm of discarded materials,” Droll shares. Her mixed-media works embrace sustainability and transformation, utilizing the cast-offs of daily life to explore themes of renewal, memory, and psychological resilience. “My work is a testament to sustainability, uncovering the beauty and potential within remnants of the past. Each piece becomes a metaphor for resilience, demonstrating how the abandoned and fractured can be reimagined and renewed.”
While her compositions are often visually inspired by “the imagery of trash adrift on the ocean,” her deeper intent lies in the symbolic weight of these fragments. “Discarded objects within the landscape serve as poignant metaphors for psychological trauma and the enduring capacity for transformation,” she explains. Droll’s process blends intuition and reflection, with a tactile sensitivity to texture and the quiet histories embedded within each material. Through her work, she invites viewers to witness how remnants—emotional or material—can be rebuilt into something newly whole.
Arnold Tunstall is the Director of University Galleries at the Myers School of Art at The University of Akron. Prior to this role, he worked in various curatorial capacities at the Akron Art Museum from 1985 to 2016, including serving as Collections Manager and Registrar. Tunstall holds a BFA in Graphic Design and Photography from The University of Akron and an MFA in Photography from Ohio University. He also serves on the boards of SPACES Gallery in Cleveland and Akron Soul Train. In addition to his work as an arts administrator and educator, Tunstall is an active exhibiting artist.
“I am compelled to photograph because I am, by nature, acquisitive and sentimental,” Tunstall shares. “I wish to have physical records of my experiences and surroundings. I want to stop and collect most everything.” For him, photography is a means of examining time and memory – of freezing fleeting moments and making meaning from everyday environments. “The moment the photograph is taken it becomes a record of the past and, for me, nostalgic.”
Tunstall’s work explores themes of replication, visual overload, and the absurdity embedded in American visual culture. “I see so much of ‘America’ in Akron,” he notes, “some of it merely postindustrial neglect, other things appear as perpetual American optimism – often sentimental and ridiculous.” Whether capturing layers of the urban landscape, everyday ephemera in his kitchen, or the surreal qualities of monochrome imagery, Tunstall’s photographs invite viewers to reconsider the familiar. “Home is also small things in our space,” he writes, “a book or candy wrapper catching afternoon light… It is often these quiet, accidental still lifes made of humble objects in our space that makes it home.”
