Featured Exhibit

The Annual Ohio Exhibition
August 14 – October 30
Reception and Award Ceremony, Saturday, August 14, 2 - 4 p.m.

'Inlaid Plate,’ stoneware, Sumiko Takada

For 66 years the Zanesville Art Center has held an Annual Art and Fine Crafts Exhibition to promote and present the high quality work created by Ohio artists. Artists may enter any media except for film, creating a exceptional opportunity to see what is current around the state. Each year, the blend includes professional artists and faculty from the art departments of Ohio colleges and universities, art students, and passionate amateurs.

This year’s juror is Lynnda Arrasmith, Curator of Collections and Registrar at the Canton Museum of Art since 1989. She designs exhibits and maintains the Museum’s permanent collection of over 1300 works of paintings, drawings, ceramics and sculptures. She has curated exhibitions of the works of Alice Schille, George Luks, and Clyde Singer, as well as Form, Figure & Function, opening at ZMA November 6. Arrasmith is currently compiling a civil war exhibition that will be hosted in the year 2011.

Artists included in this year's exhibition are Laura Alexander; Jason Amatangelo; Randy Bennett;  Don Boyd; Mary Ann Bucci; Kevin Buckland; Julie Byrne; Beijing Charlie; Abbe G. Cheek; Georgie Cline; Robert Coleman; Sally Emslie; Marco D. Fuhrman; Penny Gentieu; Helma Groot; Kari Gunter-Seymour; Constance Hanselman; Nicholas Hill; Helen Hoffelt; Karen Johnson; Misty Johnson; Debby Johnston; George Kocar; Chris Lang; Andrea LeBlond; Stacy Leeman; Antonio Matthews; Kathy L. McGhee; Peggy Mintun; Vicki Mitchell; Nancy Nash; Ardine Nelson; Julie Newhouse; Anita Penn; Jana Pryor; Martha Davis Rice; Rob Robbins; Brian Robinson; Gail Russell; Francis Schanberger; Sydney Schardt; Geoffrey Schenkel; Leslie Shiels; Jim Shirey; David Simmerer; Catherine Bell Smith; Emily Starr; Yan Sun; Carol Sun; Kaname Takada; Sumiko Takada; Dan Towning; Barbara Vogel; Gerald Westgerdes; Mark Wetzel; Juanita Williams; Katherine Witherell; and James Young.

'Front Porch,’ oil on canvas, Karen Johnson