Current Exhibitions
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Survey of the works and legacy of Reverend Howard Finster, self-proclaimed “Man of Visions,” in Stranger in Paradise. One of America’s most widely known and prolific self-taught artists, Finster produced over 46,000 works of art before his death in 2001.
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Ray Turner: Population
March 3, 2012 - May 27, 2012Judith Bear Isroff GalleryRay Turner: Population is a unique exhibition of nearly 200 portraits of a wide cross- section of people from across the country, including University Park and downtown Akron residents, executed with oil paint on glass. Population is an expanding series of portraits that invites viewers to contemplate identity from an individual and collective standpoint. The portraits of Akronites will be intermixed with Turner’s ongoing series, and as the exhibition evolves with the addition of new portraits from different communities, the body of work will increasingly reflect the nation’s cultural makeup.
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Making Sense of Science: Teaching and Studenting in Four Urban Classrooms
March 17, 2012 - July 15, 2012A sound installation by Walter S. Gershon, Ph.D, Kent State University
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String of Hearts: Photographs by Bea Nettles
March 10, 2012 - July 22, 2012Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell GalleryThe photographs of Bea Nettles often depict the artist's intimate family life, yet they also speak to the broad ideas of what it means to be a mother, teacher and artist, which she describes as her greatest roles. The focus of this exhibition, a survey of the museum's collection of Nettles' photographs, is the artist's use of autobiographical imagery, animated by her experimental process.
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Upcoming Exhibitions
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Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui
June 17, 2012 - October 7, 2012Since the Akron Art Museum’s expansion in 2007, El Anatsui’s Dzesi II, a dazzling metallic tapestry made from liquor bottle caps, has become one of the most popular works in the museum’s collection. Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui, on view June 17 – October 7, 2012, invites visitors to surround themselves with works by this internationally celebrated artist.
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Adolph Gottlieb: Sculptor
October 27, 2012 - February 17, 2013Karl and Bertl Arnstein GalleriesA first-generation abstract expressionist painter, Adolph Gottlieb, whose art was central to the development of mid-twentieth century painting in America, was among only three of his colleagues to create both two- and three-dimensional works. Gottlieb’s sculpture is little-known and has rarely been seen in the United States.
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