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Shauna Bauer

Artist for Hire: Commissions, Education, Private Events; Visual Arts: Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

My name is Shauna Bauer. I’m originally from Ohio. I moved to Los Angeles in 2012, and recently came back to be around family. Within this last year I received my MFA in Illustration from the Academy of Art University with a graphic novel focus. Since then I have been freelancing for personal clients, and organizations. I originally received my BFA in Studio Art from The University of Akron in 2005. I have had personal fine art shows within Akron, and did a few group shows in Los Angeles. I currently do commissions in many traditional mediums, and digital as well.

Garrick Black

Artist for Hire; Graphic Arts; Media; Performing Arts: Radio/Television

I love stories! I love to read them, I love to hear them, and most importantly, I love to share them. I use photography, video production and graphic/web design to help tell the stories everyone needs to hear. There is no story too big or too small. I believe they all should be told. Corporate Events, Weddings, Parties, Graduations, Sports, Product Shoots. I have experience shooting them all. But try me with something new, I’m not afraid to step outside of the box, I love a good challenge. I love everything about the Akron area and in my free time I love to take my camera and tripod to different locations and capture the beauty of our city.

JT Buck

Artist for Hire: Commissions, Education, Private Events, Programming; Arts Administration: Curator, Grant Writer; Literary Arts; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Director, Music, Performance Art, Spoken Word, Storytelling, Theatre, Vocal; Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Performance Art, Performers and Writers, Photography

JT Buck is a music and theatre ‘jack of all trades’, with 20 years’ professional experience as a director, playwright, composer, lyricist, music director, producer, teacher and cross-discipline collaborator. His latest musical is ‘The Devil’s Milk Part 2: Goosetown”, currently running in rep at the Balch St. Theatre. He will serve as music director for the Rocky Horror Show at the Civic this August. His passion for authentic community conversation led him to study the ‘Art of Hosting’ suite of group conversation/decision-making tools. A committed meditator, he’s passionate about teaching mindfulness-based applications to the creative process in the form of piano lessons, professional coaching and group classes. He’s available for private coachings and will be offering a series of public workshops in the coming year. Another major thread in his work is the ‘Akron story’…history, present and future. He often serves as a historical consultant across disciplines. When not doing the above things, he sleeps. Mostly on Monday.

Paul Darby

Artist for Hire: Education; Graphic Arts; Media; Visual Arts: Architectural Illustration, Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture

What talent I have in art was given to me by God, only to share with the world. I improve my talents with practice and patience. The sheer joy of painting and creating something from a blank sheet of paper is worth the effort. I want people to enjoy and see the beauty in this world and bring a smile to their face. Pleasing art can help do that. It gives me a greater joy when I can freely give a painting to a friend; a watercolor painting just looks more appealing then a photograph. Watercolor is my favorite of many mediums to express the best version of myself. It reminds me I have a soul. Art is my joy and it is the results of my paintings that make me an artist, My favorite painting is the next one. I studied art at the University of Akron and four workshops of Ron Bean, Harriet Elson, Don Getz and Don Andrews. When I retired in 2008, I found that I had suddenly lost many of the opportunities for communicating that had come with my work. Painting helps me to stay focused. – Paul Darby

Tara Deetscreek

Artist for Hire: Commissions, Education; Visual Arts: Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

I am a studio artist and art educator living in Akron, Ohio. I love connecting with people through my art and am currently obsessed with telling people’s stories through visual imagery.

Lydia DeVincent

Artist for Hire: Commissions, Education, Private Events; Graphic Arts; Literary Arts; Visual Arts: Architectural Illustration, Crafts, Functional and/or Decorative, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Photography, Textiles, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

I am currently a third-year student majoring in Graphic Design at the University of Akron Myers School of Arts. I am organized, proactive, and resourceful. I am the president of Student Design Society, a Tier 3 boxer in Pink Gloves Boxing, a cake decorator, and am a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society. Art and design have always been a huge part of my life, and it has shaped me to be who I am today. When I commit to a task, I put my best effort in and I make sure it gets completed efficiently and accurately. I love being involved, and every day I strive to be a stronger person and designer.

Emily S. Durway

Artist for Hire: Commissions, Education, Private Events, Programming; Visual Arts: Photography

Photography projects, for me, are examinations of everyday missed beauty, intimate conversations without words and opportunities to capture the micro-expressions of our world. Based in Highland Square, I am exploring new avenues of patience, warmth, balance, rest, bliss, movement, texture, color and high contrast. I have been discovering the present through a lens since the age of 7 in Austin Texas.

Shirley Ende-Saxe

Artist for Hire: Education; Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper; Journal art

SHIRLEY ENDE-SAXE is a mixed-media/collage artist who has worked extensively with fiber, journal and collage processes. She has taught art in public school, summer camp, ArtFest camp, and university settings and believes that the process of making art taps into the kind of individual focus that is meditative and healing for any learner, no matter what the skill level or life situation. Her art uses recycled images found in old photography, vintage books and art history reproductions. She combines these with jarring discordant images and materials to point away from the seemly and ideal and lead the viewer into a world governed by the fantastic and the miraculous.

Tim Fitzwater

Visual Arts: Photography

I am a commercial photographer specializing in shooting events, products, people and places. I shoot on location or in my studio space. I also use my studio for video production. I sell fine art landscape & travel photographs on my website through FineArtAmerica. I shoot vintage film cameras and blog about the results – I hope to get back in the darkroom soon so I can start selling silver gelatin prints again.I shoot mostly in the Northeast Ohio area but I am willing to travel and will shoot studio style on location. Photography is more than a job or a hobby to me – its an addiction and obsession – you'll rarely find me out and about without a camera….or two….or three…..

Blue Green

Artist for Hire: Commissions, Education; Graphic Arts; Media; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Director, Radio/Television, Storytelling, Vocal; Visual Arts: Film, Graphic Arts, Media and Visual Communications, New Media/Technology, Performers and Writers, Photography

I’m a storyteller. I use the visual medium.

Dara Harper

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Printmaking, Visual Arts Instructor

I am a lover of art – art of all mediums: I paint, I write, I speak, I teach what I know and love….ART. In my lifetime art has been my calm, my “go to” when all else fails. I truly can say, “I love what I do” and I encourage all to find that love. I am fulfilled not only by what I do, but who I serve and that is God who made me. He has made room for me to come before many and and speak of His goodness and mercy. Like art we forever evolve, move and welcome new ways, but as for God, He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow…….forever grateful!

Jessica Lofthus

Performing Arts: Vocal; Visual Arts: Crafts, Illustration, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Textiles

I’m the child of a seamstress and a carpenter, brought up in the culture of Southwest Art. I spent my childhood draping rooms in my mother’s fabrics, painting murals on my bedroom walls and going through endless art galleries. My teen years were spent sneaking off from Southwestern Art culture to watch graffiti artists create enormous, vibrant compositions in the desert sun. My art reflects these two very different but complimentary styles with subtle color changes and crisp lines. My work explores ancient spiritual and cultural evolution, employing hidden windows and intersections in the universe where different worlds collide. I hold a BFA in Painting with a focus in Ancient Middle Eastern Art from The University of Texas. I’ve painted many walls around Akron, including the local businesses Mustard Seed Cafe in Montrose and the walls and tables in the indoor playscape Cafe O’Play in Stow. Please see www.jessicalofthus.com for more work and information

Mac Love

Artist for Hire: Commissions, Education, Private Events, Programming; Arts Administration: Curator, Grant Writer; Graphic Arts; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Performance Art, Spoken Word, Storytelling; Visual Arts: Functional and/or Decorative, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Murals, New Media/Technology, Painting, Performance Art, Performers and Writers, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper; Interactive Art

Mac Love is an international artist, brand consultant, and the Chief Catalyst at Art x Love, LLC, a creative courage company based in Akron, OH. Mac’s work has always been a reaction to his environment, which has spanned 29 years of professional practice in the United States, Scotland, Japan, and Singapore. He is a die-hard Cleveland Sports fan, and responsible for the “Believeland” chalk murals that reignited interest and development of Cleveland’s Flats East Bank from 2014-2017. Mac is most recently known for @PLAY, a Knight Cities grant project that explored every street in Akron’s 24 neighborhoods, and produced 93 interactive art challenges with 168 local artists and 5,288 creative participants. He is proud to call Akron home, and happy to support our creative economy. Mac believes in the health of art, and uses a unique combination of brand equity analysis to help his clients embrace change and connect to people in meaningful ways.

Julianne Nipple

Artist for Hire: Commissions, Private Events; Arts Administration: Curator; Graphic Arts; Media; Performing Arts: Dance, Radio/Television; Visual Arts: Ceramics, Constructions/Collage, Crafts, Functional and/or Decorative, Illustration, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Textiles, Works on paper

Julianne Nipple is an artist from North Canton, Ohio who is currently attending Kent State University. As an abstract artist she creates visual pieces of art using various forms of paper, canvas, and other materials around her to incorporate into her artwork. The materials used for this particular piece of art were sumi ink, oil pastel, gold leaf, spray paint, and paper. Technical influences for this piece include artist Jackson Pollock and Professor Jack McWhorter (Kent State University). The paper medium here becomes an arena for the mind, allowing the subconscious psyche of the artist to create and release raw emotion of the human experience. The image and title is intended to relate to, and spark emotion for the viewer, as well as to bring awareness to particular subject matter. This art piece, called “When the Grim Reaper Stole You from Me”, is symbolic of an extremely raw human emotion. It is a vulnerable piece about the death of a loved one and the effects and process of grief. This artwork is dedicated to a best friend and artist that was lost this year. To the viewer that relates to this artwork in any aspect, Julianne Nipple hopes that it will aid in the healing process involved in loss, and offers that, “Sometimes in the death of a loved one, when the darkness surrounds us, it is possible for us to receive beautiful gifts of hope, on this journey of life”. As quoted from a dear friend, and echoed by many other successful people: “Losing it all. Gaining Everything.”

Ilenia Pezzaniti

Artist for Hire: Commissions, Private Events; Literary Arts; Media; Visual Arts: Film, Jewelry, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography

I am a 27-year-old multidisciplinary artist from Akron, OH. Specifically, I am a photographer, writer, documentary filmmaker, videographer, jewelry maker, and mixed-media artist. I have a deep affection for being alone, vegan food, books, true crime, DIY, and my pets, Mr. Mouse and Luna. My nicknames include, E, Lain, and Half-pint. I am small.

Janean Ray

Artist for Hire: Commissions; Graphic Arts; Media; Visual Arts: Photography; public event photographer

My art is about capturing moments not making them. I want my work to inspire people to look around them and see what beauty there is in the world if you just pay attention. I try to keep my photos as natural as possible, emphasizing that simplicity is beautiful in its details. To see an object, a building, animal, flower or landscape in a way you never noticed before, is what I want people to take away from my work. If I can get people to see my photos and have it inspire them to stop and look at something and say ‘WOW!, I get it now’, then I’ve succeeded. Comments about her work: …….“We all think we see things the same way, but we don’t. You see things the rest of us miss.” ………“This photo is overwhelming…. I cannot even articulate how this makes me react… Too many memories, and images, and oddly – aromas. Oh my”. Aside from my full-time job with the Legal Defender Office, I am a trustee with the Norton Historical Society and is on the Norton Bicentennial committee working on their 200th Bicentennial festival this year. I also work on family genealogy when not in my studio or out shooting more photos. Besides photographing the tow paths and metro parks, and everything else from A to Z, (literally) I have photographed Highland Square Porchrokr Fest, Barberton Cherry Blossom, Norton Cider Fest, Akron Rubber Ducks, Akron’s Over the Edge, Portage Lakes Dragon Boat Races, Cleveland Tall Ship Festival, Cuyahoga Valley Railroad – Steam in the Valley, Barberton Mum Fest and Yankee Peddler just to name some events. My next project is “In Thy Honor” Craft Fair and Car Show at the Ohio Veteran’s Memorial Memorial weekend, where I will be photographing approximately 100 corvettes in front of the Veteran’s Memorial Wall. My photos have been featured on Fox 8 News Cleveland and I currently have three (3) photos on display at Barberton Summa Hospital and have won various digital contests, many 1st and 2nd place as well as one Reserve Best in Show.

Dave Szalay

Artist for Hire: Commissions, Education; Graphic Arts; Literary Arts; Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media and Visual Communications, Murals, Visual Arts Instructor

Dave Szalay has been a professional designer and illustrator since 1985. He currently has an active professional practice, Dave Szalay Design + Illustration out of his home studio in Richfield, Ohio. His illustration blends digital media with traditional techniques and is inspired by vintage mid-century advertising and story books. Dave has taught at The Myers School of Art at The University of Akron since 2005 and is an Associate Professor. His research interest is in narrative imagery, visual storytelling, animation, and illustration history. in the Graphic Design program at the Myers School of Art. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design and a Master of Arts in Communication from The University of Akron. He also holds a Master of Fine Arts in Illustration from The University of Hartford. Dave’s work has appeared in various publications including Creative Quarterly, 3 x 3, The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration, HOW magazine, and displayed at the Joseloff Gallery in Hartford, CT, The Emily Davis Gallery, and Summit Artspace in Akron, Ohio, and Studio 2091 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Dave is past VP of the Advertising Federation of Greater Akron, past 5th district Addy Chair, and his work has won numerous awards including the Individual Excellence Award in Illustration from the Oho Arts Council in 2015, multiple Benjamin Franklin Printing Awards, Exhibitor Show: Best of Show 10’ x 10’ winner, and Multiple ADDY awards. His work has been recognized by The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, The Adobe Design Achievement Awards, and he was The First Night Akron Artist for 2014.

Peter Wolf Toth

Visual Arts: Sculpture

Peter Wolf Toth is a Hungarian-born American sculptor, who immigrated to the United States and settled in Akron, Ohio. He later studied art at the University of Akron. He created a series of sculptures called Trail of the Whispering Giants to honor Native Americans. Overall, he has created more than 74 sculptures, including at least one in each state of the United States, and in several Provinces and territories of Canada.

Sarah Treanor

Artist for Hire: Commissions, Education, Private Events, Programming; Literary Arts; Visual Arts: Ceramics, Earthworks, Mixed Media, Photography, Sculpture; Encaustic

Hi, I’m Sarah. An artist, writer, enabler of creativity, and lover of the outdoors. I’m all about telling stories of the human spirit, through photographs, paintings, poetry, journaling and more. I have experienced a great deal of loss in my life, and my work is largely a retelling of those stories via metaphor, as well as a way of exploring new lessons that arise as I grow. It is my passion to help others become more in touch with their own creative power. To help them be more inspired by wherever they happen to be in life. Along with creating photographic stories about life, I write and teach about grief, creativity, and the power of storytelling. I am the Sunday writer for Widow’s Voice, a blog written by seven widowed people telling their weekly experience of living on, and write regularly on my blog here about creativity and adversity. If you’d like to know any more about me, or chat about possible opportunities to work together, feel free to drop me a line over at streanor.com

Francisca Ugalde

Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Works on paper

Born/raised in Chile; landed in Ohio in 2001. Received a BFA in painting from KSU, and an MA in Arts Admin/Collections Management from UA In 2014, taught a Lock 3 Summer Arts Experience mural painting program/produced the Glendale Steps Murals. I was the creative director for the 2017 Big Love Festival. I am the museology/collections management/exhibition design instructor for Museums & Archives Cert Prog at the Institute for Human Science and Culture at UA. I am also the IHSC curator of collections.