Past Exhibits 2024
Paul Brown is considered the father of modern football, his innovations creating successful teams on and off the field. From his high school teams through his professional coaching career, Brown put his players first. Brown's contributions to the game of football include classroom coaching techniques, revolutionary halftime entertainment, equipment inventions, support organizations, and innovative play creation.
October 28, 2023–January 7, 2024
Juried artwork categorized by age group and medium
Reception: November 30, 2023, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Image: I’m just doing my job!!!, India ink & combo brush on Bristol paper
Annual juried exhibition featuring two- and three-dimensional artwork
The Heart Gallery pairs a local artist with a child waiting to be adopted to create a special portrait.
Participating artists:
Heather Bullach, Tim Carmany, Kat Francis, William Keomany, Madison Miller, Alexa Polinori, David Sherrill, Alaska Thompson, and Kaley Weaver.
Each year, the Massillon Museum exhibits artwork by area school children. The gallery becomes a huge splash of color and imagination. Art teachers in schools within and surrounding Massillon have been invited to submit artwork by their students from kindergarten through high school.
Maria McDonald
Student painting exhibition.
Student photography exhibition. In collaboration with the Kent Area (OH) Chapter of The Links, Inc. Museum visitors can enjoy The Art and History of The Black Family: Through the Eyes of the 21st Century African American Child through March 30 in the Fred F. Silk Community Room Gallery.
An award in collaboration with the Canton Museum of Art and the Canton Symphony Orchestra
An audiovisual archive of intimate stories told by ordinary people, featuring portraits from the artists' visit to Massillon, Ohio.
Contemporary Black artists complement the 2024 NEA Big Read:
Chesley Antoinette, Woodrow Nash, Chepape Makgato, Gee’s Bend quilts, Francine Terry
Guest curated by Dr. Tameka Ellington
Image:
Chesley Antoinette
Maria Juana
2018
archival inkjet print on cotton paper
Photo credit: JD Moore
Stylist: Courtney Guy
Make-up: Steven Hill
Model: Latasha Roche
K–12 student artwork throughout NE Ohio
Mixed media artwork exploring themes of feminism and domesticity
Precarious Legacies: Exposures of a Fleeting Landscape focuses on the conversation of environmental preservation through photographic images created by Ansel Adams (1902–1984) and Nell Dorr (1893–1988). This exhibition showcases the beauty of the natural landscape in hopes of inviting dialogue about climate change and what actions are necessary to preserve these landscapes.
Research of the accomplished illustrator, Jerry Kalback (1950–2021); on loan from Kent State University.
Massillon players who made it in the big leagues and the local semi-pro agathons
Adjudicated, statewide exhibition of artwork by Ohio artists with disabilities presented by Art Possible Ohio
Paintings merging figuration with geometric abstraction
Garments from Northeast Ohio collections and costumes from HBO's The Gilded Age
Guest Curated by Brian Centrone
A celebration of iconic vinyl album artwork from the collection of the Massillon Public Library Vinyl Club
Porcelain Sculpture exploring lives of fiercely independent women who lived as oddities