Thank you for your support during our Breathe II Summer Exhibit. A few of us are offering an additional summer exhibit--EXHALE--to celebrate friends, summertime, art and nature. Please join us during this surprise exhibit!
Originally from New Orleans, Kevin has dabbled in the arts for 20 years and has been working with clay since 2001.Although primarily self-taught, he has taken intensive programs at the Penland School of Crafts and JohnC.CampbellFolkSchool in North Carolina.Kevins work consists of hand-built pieces with an emphasis on design using organic shapes and clean lines.He uses a variety of firing processes including sagar, raku, and pit firing.
A self-taught artist, Lahoma has lived in the Akron area for most of her life.Inspired by the work of concrete artists George Little and David Lewis, Lahoma creates sand cast leaf sculptures from natural leaves.Each Leafing is created from a real leafno molds are used in the process.A gardener first, Lahoma grows many of the leaves she uses in her work.She became particularly interested in shade-loving, large-leaf foliage plants since moving to the dense shade that surrounds her West Akron home.Lahomas work relies heavily on her ability to capture in stone the natural grace of foliage and her unique flair for combining unusual color combinations to enhance the contour of the castings.
TAMARA GUNNELS, Tree Charms & Glass Art, Macedonia
Tamara Gunnels (better known as Moonstruck in the art world) is a local glass artist with a background in the creation and installation of large leaded and stained glass windows.Tamara is a bona fide tree hugger.Working with mirrors, semi-precious stones, and Swarovski crystal, Tamara creates one-of-a-kind pieces of art that she hopes will inspire others to preserve and decorate the earth.She is now taking some of the same materials and creating pieces to accent the indoors.
Tammy and her husband, Jeff, live in Richfield with their son Michael.Tammy has always enjoyed being creative and working with a variety of mediums, her favorites being gourds, semiprecious stones, and precious metal clay (PMC).She is a Certified PMC Instructor and loves the endless possibilities for designs using PMC.
Russ feels that he did not choose to blow glass; glassblowing chose him. To Russ, forming hot glass is an extremely exciting, almost magical, experience in which a molten material is transformed into a delicate, precious object. Most of the time, hot glass has a mind of its own. The glass artist must develop the skills not only to shape the object but also to create one that is pleasing to the viewer.
Dave has always enjoyed artcollecting works, visiting museums and exhibits, and traveling to art events.Dave began creating his functional, organic forms in 1998 when he met Bob Yost of the MiddleburyPotterySchool and Yost Tile.This working relationship still exists today as Dave creates his work at home and then glazes and fires at Bobs studio in Akron.Dave has exhibited regularly at The Log Cabin Gallery since 2002.He also exhibits at Mocha Maiden and the Artists of Rubber City shows.Dave is invited to participate in 5-10 charity/arts benefits each year.
DIANE SESKES,Photography, PeninsulaDiane uses a Nikon F100, Velvia slide film, and available light to capture the beauty of nature on film.She especially enjoys photographing in the CuyahogaValley and Midcoast Maine.Diane is a member of the Cuyahoga Valley Photo Society and Artists of Rubber City.Her images have been published in COLOR Magazine, Birds & Blooms,National Geographic Traveler, Akron Life & Leisure, National Geographics Guide to National Parks, the National Park Systems Passport to your Park stamp series, the Cuyahoga Valley National Park Handbook, and CuyahogaValleyNational Park calendars.Her photographs grace homes and businesses across the United States.
Lucille Seskes, Traditional Quilting & Piecing details
LUCILLE SESKES, Traditional Quilting & Piecing, Medina Lucille loves the Amish and travels to HolmesCounty on a regular basis.She enjoys collecting feedsack fabric and redwork.She prefers applique and smaller, one-of-a-kind projects since large quilts never seem to get finished because of her busy life.Lucille is a founding member of Keep Us in Stitches, a member of the Western Reserve Quilters, Ladies of Baltimore, and NEORQC.
Tracy fell in love with clay at a young age, and this memory is part of what motivates her love of teaching children about such a magic medium. Tracy has had a few years of ceramics education at area community colleges and AkronUniversity, but most of her education has been through studio work, making pottery at Hale Farm and Village, contact with other working artists, and through motherhood and family life. She also has a background in textile silk screening and mail order catalog production. Tracys life is all about her family and making and selling tableware has enabled her to stay home and raise her children. Tracy feels privileged to be invited to serve at so many tables.She appreciates the opportunity to make beautiful things that help make a great family meal- or a simple cup a joe- even better.
DIANE TANINECZ, Jewelry, Peninsula Diane designs and handcrafts jewelry using silver and bronze metal clay. She enjoys exploring various texturing and modeling techniques that the metal clay medium naturally allows, often inspired by forms and patterns found in nature. Diane studied at the KentStateUniversity school of art as a fiber arts major. She has furthered her art studies by attending workshops at various venues including the Cleveland Institute of Art, Arrowmont School of Art, and the Corning Museum of Glass.
AUTUMN ZING 17 Artists September 24 - October 31 Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays 11 am until 5 pm & by chance or by appointment
