I have been an artist all my life, commercial, graphic, designer, teacher. I am currently focused on encaustic art, both painting, collage and photo encaustic, focusing on experimentation with the media and its many effects.

It’s an amazing and versatile medium. I do exhibit and have won first place as well as group first. My goal is to introduce the Encaustic medium to the general public who have never seen it.

Robert J. Putka, graduated from Kent State University in 1975 with a B.F.A. in art education. Robert taught art and theatre for 46 years at Stow Munroe Falls High School. He taught A.P. Drawing, preparing student portfolios, and assisting with college placement, as well as designing, painting and decorating theatrical sets. He has worked in surface design in the form of batik, but has always painted in watercolor, acrylic, and oils, with an emphasis in landscape painting, and in particular, revels in pleinaire painting when able. His canvases are teeming with life, movement and bursting with color filled with activity from edge to edge. Robert's paintings are in numerous collections, and has exhibited his work earlier in his career at the Cleveland Museum of Art May Show, the Massillon Museum, and the Butler Institute of Art.

Recently, his work has been seen at "Dualities" at Kent State University School of Art, the Floral and Landscape Show at the Cuyahoga Valley Art Center, The Lakeland Juried Art Show, Fairmount Center for the Arts juried Show, The Mansfield Art Center's May Show, The Kaleidoscope Juried Show at Summitartspace, Tending the Garden at Kent State University Stark, The Forest Calls at The Geauga Parks Visitors Center, and the upcoming Butler Institute of American Art National Midyear Show this summer.

Hello, my name is Destiny Moore. Im based in Cleveland, Ohio. My prior experience includes being a fashion photography intern for Ricochet Wearable Arts, as well as serving as a wedding photographer, and recently published in NPR–check out the article. I was recently included as an honorable mention for the minimalism art show for my piece titled "In A Daze" in Ten Moir gallery.

I have a great eye for the overlooked things, and the beauty of simplicity. I have lived in Los Angeles,the Bay Area, Cleveland, Washington D.C. and Sydney,Australia, which has given me a unique experience and has shaped the way I approach photography. I love to capture subjects and scenes that convey a story, landscapes in particular are my favorite however, I am open to shooting anything.I hope you enjoy my art work.

As an artist I seek to understand and make sense of the world around me through drawing and painting. Painting for me is a method to better understand the ordinary aspects of life and to celebrate them. Much of my recent work is an exploration of the places I inhabit and the ways that places connect us to memory, emotion and other people. It is an exploration and a celebration, an inquiry and an exclamation through bold color and lively lines. The work does not capture the iconic, but the typical with a fresh view. The scenes and places and subjects I have chosen may at times be in prominent cities and urban centers, but they capture the typical and everyday with content such as the skyline of a small city in Eastern Europe, ice cream stands in Akron, and wildflowers in Wyoming. The work compels the viewer to question and notice the beauty and complexity in the everyday life and beauty that surrounds us.

Akron artist Lizzi Aronhalt is here for the buildings! Her architecturally 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.

See more from Lizzi on www.lizziaronhalt.com or on social media @lizzi_aronhalt_art

I work in a variety of media. The most unconventional of all the media is my work in colored pencil on Hydrostone. These works cover 3-D sculpture as well as relief projects.

The Hydrostone work can be found on my website under Drawings and Sculpture. Many of the pieces incorporate found objects.

Maringer’s art has always had a tactile component which led him to work with Tyvek®, a DuPont product. Painting the Tyvek® and heat distressing it created many interesting unique pieces to touch and look at. While working with Tyvek®, he started experimenting with embroidering on fiberglass screens, a much more industrial material unlike conventional cotton most people embroider on. Working with the screen is Maringer’s main interest in his current body of work. His current work can be viewed at https://maringer.artcall.org.

Working with unconventional fibers like fiberglass screen and Tyvek, a DuPont product. These materials challenge him to work much differently then working with conventional materials as he did in the past. Throughout the design and construction process there is an added engineering aspect that challenges not only the construction but the display of each piece created.

My techniques include experimenting with the relativity of color and shape and how they influence each other by proximity. I expose color relationships in a layer and reveal method providing peeks in glimmers and slices. Layering these elements shape relationships and solidify the composition. I find my way through my process with improvisation rather than visualizing a finished product.

My artwork consists of impressionistic landscapes and abstractions.  I am always inspired by the sense of disorder, yet perfect organization found in the organic. The balance is always there.

I studied studio art and majored in drawing at Denison University. After graduating, I worked at art galleries and continued painting for several years. Eventually, I took a corporate job and painted less and less as the job kept me busier and busier. Then, for more than a decade, I did not paint at all. I started painting again in 2005, first in abstract acrylics. Several years later I began add elements of collage. My current work incorporates stitching as a way to add line detail. Thread, yarn, and stitching are also a nod to evenings spent embroidering with my mom and my job as a seamstress in college.

Found objects, grandmother’s buttons, plastic wrappers, maps, and old book pages all find their way into my work. Maps especially are loaded with associations of childhood road trips and the promise of grand adventures. If something stands still long enough, it WILL get glued onto artwork!

The results are colorful artworks rich in surface texture and personal associations.