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JannaLe TenHuisen

Artist for Hire: Commissions; Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Sculpture

Whimsical creations by a whimsical artist…all hatched by hand. Each hatchling is one of a kind! Hand sculpted in polymer clay. I do not use molds. I take a limited number of custom orders each year. One of a kind polymer clay creations, including draglyttes, unicorns, pet peeves, caticorns, dogs, cats, and much more!!! Available for purchase at the Northside Marketplace in Akron.

Bronlynn Thurman

Graphic Arts; Literary Arts; Media; Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Media and Visual Communications, Photography

I’m a Visual & Literary Storyteller who graduated from Kent State University with a Bachelor of Science in Advertising and a double minor in Marketing and Psychology. I specialize in Design, Illustration, and Photography. I’ve interned at the printing company, Digital Color International, LLC where I acted as the Marketing Director’s assistant. While there I handled the company’s blog, designed their travel books, created a FSC web banner, designed a direct mailer, and created press releases. Currently, I work with both the Knight Foundation as a Program Associate and the GAR Foundation as a Program Assistant. In these roles, I work with grantees and potential grantees as well as help develop community based programming for Knight. Prior to this I worked as an Events Assistant at the Akron-Summit County Public Library where I help develop events, design the staff newsletter, and manage audio and visual equipment. I also recently stepped down as Lead Section Editor of The Arts for The Devil Strip, Akron’s culture magazine. There I oversaw the organization of The Arts section, dished out stories to writers, developed my own stories, and did a bit of photojournalism. When I’m not working, I’m working. I run a Northeast Ohio-focused music, art, and food blog called “Tea Time with the Mad Artist.” I also run a book review site, a quirky web comic called “Inequivalent Exchange” which was featured in The Devil Strip, develop personal pieces for local galleries, and take on some freelance design/photography work.

Adana Tillman

Artist for Hire: Commissions, Private Events; Visual Arts: Textiles

Adana first learned to work with fabric from her mother and would assist her in making quilts, pillows and clothing. Realizing she had an aptitude for the visual arts, her mother enrolled her into an arts magnet school where she received formal training. Attending an arts focused program Adana’s skills were honed in figure drawing, still life and working with multiple mediums. She began creating the fabric pieces as an outlet but soon gained outside admirers. In her first art fair, much praise was given for the colorful, mixed patterns made into beautiful portraits. In effort to put her work out into the public, after applying she was chosen as a regional finalist in the Bombay Sapphire Artisan series. She was also chosen for the group show Akron High Arts Festival. She looks to now work in creating her own surface patterns and textures to create more large scale pieces dealing in figure studies.

Floco Torres

Performing Arts: Music, Storytelling; Visual Arts: Performers and Writers

Floco (pronounced Flock-o) Torres knows a thing or two about starting over. 21 projects deep into his career as a solo recording artist, he has envisioned and revisioned his creative expression countless times and with this adaptive style he has gained a steady following for his hip-hop-meets-alternative rock style. A New Jersey native, but current resident of Akron, OH, balance is key for Floco Torres, striking a blend of deeply emotive lyrics with groove-inducing beats. In 2011 Floco released his first full length release, Floco’s Modern Life, which was recorded with a full band and funded entirely through Kickstarter. Though met with this early success and an impressive fan following, Floco kept touring a yearly 50-70 shows while creating new material with intensity. Citing influences such as Kid Cudi, Tame Impala, and St. Vincent, Floco continues to redefine hip-hop with his own personal style. A proficient in smooth flows of stirring and grounded lyrics, Floco appeals to classic rap fans, but bridges genre through the soul rock touches that provide the floor for Floco’s quick-lipped quips to dance upon. With again, Floco Torres wanted to make a record about the process of renewal, about the obsession of wanting to be better– for wanting the opportunity to top what you did last time. again is an EP that explores this never ending quest of artistic and self improvement, combining past successes and failures to move forward into a new future. Floco Torres dares not only to adapt to change, but also engage and challenge the personal influences of such growth. – Nicole Baumann

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.

Jean Henriott Trawick

Graphic Arts; Literary Arts; Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Painting, Works on paper

At 82 years young Jean Henriott Trawick creates in many facets and mediums of art, establishing her among fans and collectors as the “Grandma Moses” of the 21st century! Recent work includes Spooklin – a book about a ghost named Spooklin who runs away from the Kingdom of Boo because he doesn’t want to wear the same sheet as everyone else. Read more about Spooklin here! Her work for the 2016 Akron Art Prize, I DREAMT OF THE BODY AKRON, makes the following statement: “I dreamt of the BODY AKRON under seas 300 million years ago with sediment and limey shells on the bottom, the sandstone bedrock of Akron. As the seas deepened and receded, a hot, wet jungle grew: ferns, scaly trees, amphibians, large cockroaches,dragonflies with 30 inch wingspan. It became colder as two glaciers slid down leaving deep ravines and steep hills with forests of oak, fens and marshes, where humans made trails and built the city Akron. I dreamt of the BODY AKRON through another 200 years while it changed as 11 million humans in NE Ohio cruelly drained its resources and deeply wounded it. Only recently have humans begun to repair and restore the BODY AKRON.” In 2014 and 2015 she created 4 AKRON MY HOME SWEET HOME collages and THE FACES of AKRON collage for the Akron Art Prize (which are now available as postcards at the Mustell Store and Rubber City Clothing). The FACES of AKRON now hangs in the Urban Eats Cafe. She also works in graphic art, watercolor, and pen-and ink.

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