Summit Artspace, the Greater Akron area community arts center, has chosen Kamelia D. Fisher as its new executive director. A Cuyahoga Falls resident, Fisher has been the executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Summit, Medina & Stark Counties since 2012. She started in the BBBS organization in 2009 as president and CEO of the East Central Ohio chapter, located … [Read more...]
Summit Artspace show features work from Africa, Middle East
Summit Artspace's Transition Gallery will host contemporary works by artists from the Middle East and Africa May 5 through 7, with the hope of encouraging cultural understanding. "The Other Face" will feature more than 100 pieces by artists from Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Israel and the … [Read more...]
Summit Artspace sponsors ‘Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute’ to help creatives build their brands
Want to build a strong brand as a creative business in the areas of fine and performing arts, writing, media and design or another art-based venture? 'The Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute' offers an intensive course April 23, 24, 30 and May 1, 2016 at Summit Artspace to help your passion thrive. AEI is underwritten by the Burton D. Morgan Foundation through Summit … [Read more...]
Program teaches creative minds the business behind art (Article and Video)
Maintaining a part- or full-time career in the arts - say as a painter, ballet dancer or sculptor - can be more than challenging, particularly to do so successfully. It’s enough to spend hour after hour taking brush strokes to canvas, doing pliés at a barre or spinning a potter’s wheel. But artists must also find time not only to promote themselves, but more importantly, to … [Read more...]
Help create, unearth ‘time capsules’ at Summit Artspace exhibit
(CLICK HERE for a photo album from the opening.) Discarded furniture, found industrial remnants and decades of combined artistic experience come together through the eyes of Northeast Ohio artists Bret Hines, Terry Klausman and Gwen Waight. A new exhibit, "Time Capsules," at Summit Artspace Gallery, will be on view through March 7. The exhibition features expressive 3D … [Read more...]
Arts Alliance hosts ‘Pop Up Art’ discussion at Summit Artspace
On Nov. 12, a small panel met at Summit Artspace at an Akron Area Arts Alliance workshop called “Pop Up: Art in Unexpected Places.” The panel discussed public art works and events. The workshop was moderated by Elaine Guregian, the vice president of AAAA and former arts critic for the Akron Beacon Journal. The panel consisted of Bobby Wesner, the creative director of Neos Dance … [Read more...]
Arts Alliance presents Art in Unexpected Places workshop
Contemporary dance in a cemetery. An eye-catching mural on a wall along a well-traveled street. Indie bands rocking out on porches in an urban neighborhood. Dracula on pointe shoes in a vacant storefront. During "Pop up: Art in Unexpected Places," a free workshop Nov. 12 from 5 to 6:30 p.m., local artists and organizers will talk about the magic and nitty-gritty of … [Read more...]
Visiting artist offers ‘creative intervention’ in Akron (Article and Video)
San Francisco artist Hunter Franks is part of a growing movement of “Creative Interventionists,” and his medium is people and their relationships with the world around them. This growing movement of creative “placemakers” seek to disrupt social norms and everyday routines in order to get people to think more about their community. It could be adding a temporary bike lane or … [Read more...]
