June 11, 2019
As many as 250 visitors celebrated the June 7 opening of “Summer Mash Up,” the exhibit on view in Ursuline's Florence O'Donnell Wasmer Gallery through Friday, June 28, 2019. Gallery Director Anna Arnold, who curated the exhibition, said “I invited awakening, emerging and established artists to submit their works for a stunning, uplifting, youthful and vibrant show. I envisioned it as a brilliant mash-up of many styles, genres, techniques, and cultures. I sought work that is extraordinary, powerful, captivating, evocative, joyful, daring, glamorous, innovative, magical, theatrical, and mind-boggling.”
The show is all that, comprising a range of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, dolls, quilting, and batik. Arnold said 64 Northeast Ohio artists submitted 380 digital images. From these images, she selected 72 artworks, created by 55 artists, for the show.
Admission to the Wasmer Gallery is free. Summer hours, in effect June 7 through August 2, 2019, are: Tuesday through Thursday, 12:00 to 5:00 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. The gallery is closed on Mondays and Fridays in the summer.
The following artists have work on view:
Emma Anderson
Barbara Bachtell
Steve Bowen
Davon Brantley
Catherine Butler
David Buttram
Valerie Buynak
Rodney Carpenter
Hector Castellanos-Lara
Kimberly Chapman
Suzette Cohen
Julie Cook
Heather Denning
Julianne Edberg
Jill Eisert
Samuel Francazio
Laurie Garrett
Leah Gilbert
Adrian Hardin
Marti Higgins
Thomas Hudson
Clarissa Jakobsons
Joyce Morrow Jones
Tricia Kaman
Wally Garfunkel Kaplan
Deron Leutenegger
Lindsay Martin
Rita P. Matas
Jessica McDonough
James McNamara
Meg McNamara
Ryan Meikle
Charles Mintz
Karen Ollis
Kimberly Osborne-Millstein
Jacques Payne
Cecelia Ivy Price
Katina Pastis Radwanski
Melissa Richmond
Rick Rollenhagen
Rita Schuenemann
Lisa Skufca
Carol J. Stevens
Alan Tucker
Lynn Underwood
Lance Vernon
Gina Washington
Irwin Weinberger
Jerome White
George Williams
Desiree Oza Zajacz
Jaymi Zents
Mata Bottum Ziegler
Deni Ziganti