Lizzi Aronhalt
Akron artist Lizzi Aronhalt is a painter, muralist and art educator living and working in her beloved hometown of Akron, Ohio. Her architecturally and botanically focused work engages themes such as memory, place and the passing of time. She spent time in Southwest Ohio at Miami University where she obtained a B.S. in Art Education and a minor in 2-D media studies. She then lived for two years in Eastern Europe before returning home to Akron where she currently resides and creates as a resident artist in Summit Artspace. Lizzi has shown work in galleries and communal spaces around the Northeast Ohio region, and has installed large-scale murals in parks, businesses, nonprofits and more. See more from Lizzi on www.lizziaronhalt.com or on social media @lizzi_aronhalt_art.

Lauren Davies
After receiving an MFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute, I spent decades in California as both an artist and non-profit gallery director, but eventually returned to my Rust Belt roots and relocated to Cleveland. Over the past 10 years this geographic relocation has also radically expanded my approach to art-making as I took a headlong dive into combining historical research into new and experimental works that mesh photography with sculpture and textiles via hands-on crafting processes. Recent projects include “Industry Unraveled”, a photo/textile study of abandoned manufacturing sites throughout the Rust Belt; followed by “Incarceration: Solitary Objects” a photo/textile project that investigated a condemned prison in Ohio; and a current textile/sculpture project titled “Stories about Stories” based on childhood memories of rural Mississippi. In combination, these works function as experiential responses to locations where I have previously lived and ultimately left a lingering impression on me.

I received a Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Award in addition to multiple Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards. My work has been recently presented at Transformer Station, SHED Projects, Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery, the Fuller Craft Museum, Jack Fischer Gallery and the Rust Belt Biennial. I was an artist-in-resident at Yaddo in 2024, at the Wurlitzer Foundation in 2023 and at the Joan Mitchell Center in 2022. I’ve also had residencies at MASSMoCA, the California Academy of Sciences, Santa Fe Art Institute and Djerassi Resident Artists Program. My work has been reviewed in Art in America, San Francisco Chronicle, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Photograph Magazine, Art Papers, and Temporary Art Review amongst others. 

Arnold Tunstall
Arnold Tunstall is currently Director, University Galleries at Myers School of Art, at the University of Akron.  Previously, Tunstall worked for the Akron Art Museum in various curatorial positions since 1985 and served as the Collections Manager and Registrar from1994 – 2016. Tunstall is active in the regional arts community by exhibiting his own artwork and is on the board of directors of SPACES Gallery, Cleveland and The Akron Soul Train. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The University of Akron majoring in Graphic Design and Photography, he received his Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Ohio University. He has been an occasional adjunct instructor at the Myers School of Art since 1995 and is currently the coordinator of the Arts Administration graduate program at The University of Akron.