The Akron Art Museum, 1 S. High St., Akron, is offering extended holiday hours because of the popularity of Landscapes From the Age of Impressionism and the two complementary exhibitions, Michelle Droll: Landslide/Between a Rock and a Place and SuperNatural: Landscapes by Bruce Checefsky and Barry Underwood. The museum is normally closed on Monday and Tuesday.
Jessie Raynor, director of the Akron Area Arts Alliance (AAAA), will retire by June 30.
When I first began writing about art for the Akron Beacon Journal 33 years ago, there were few galleries in Akron, the local arts community was a small, close-knit group composed mainly of artist-illustrators who worked for major corporations, and the dominant art style was realism, despite the fact that there were three art schools in the region trying to introduce students to art produced after World War II.
Akron’s next Artwalk is from 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday. Participating artists and galleries feature one-of-a- kind art and collectibles available for purchase, as well as art openings, gallery shows, demonstrations and interactive art.
It isn’t the Wizard of Oz, but it may be Liberace.
And if it’s Liberace, why aren’t more visitors gobsmacked? It could be they don’t know what to make of it, so they stroll on by.
Contemporary artists have found that the landscape is a flexible and adaptable subject. Currently it is, hands down, one of the two most popular subjects for art making, the other being still lifes.
Opening — A free public reception for Idiosyncrasy, an exhibit of works by 13 graphic design students at the University of Akron’s Myers School of Art, is being held from 6 to 8 p.m. at Folk Hall, 150 E. Exchange St. Exhibition hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and until 8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday.
The traditional subjects for a work of visual art used to be history, portrait, scenes of everyday life, landscape, animals, still life. In that order.
Main Street Cupcakes invites Medina-area teens to enter its Cupcakes for Christmas window-painting contest. Artists are asked to submit a full sketch of a painting; Main Street Cupcakes will choose a winner to paint his or her composition on the front window. The work will stay up for all of December.
America has had a long and ardent love affair with Impressionism.
And when we look back, with our 20/20 hindsight, we can see that it was as inevitable as the dawn.
A year or so after I began writing about art for the Akron Beacon Journal, someone casually mentioned that the Akron Society of Artists had no women artists in its membership. Then, just as I was on the verge of writing a story about the lack of female representation on its rolls, the society admitted its first woman artist. This was late 1970s, early 1980s.
