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Stirring emotions often wake Tracy Ameen, but they also inspire her powerful doublewall pottery
Cover image by Michael C. Butz
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Pop! goes the neighborhood Scott Pickering’s art lights up Slavic Village, Cleveland
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Editor’s Note
Editor Michael C. Butz weighs in on summer arts festivals
Center Stage
Fictional settings evoke authentic emotions in Akron Art Museum’s “Staged”
Hudson Hopping
2nd Friday Art Hops and The Flea at Evaporator Works are bringing Hudson’s creativity to the forefront”
Events calendar
Plan visits to numerous art, music and cultural festivals
Mixed media
“How to Remain Human” serves as the centerpiece to summer exhibitions at MOCA that scramble genre and geography
Tragedy & triumph
Transformer Station’s “Crackle & Drag” provides an intimate portrait of the artist’s troubled mother
Listings
Local and regional listings of museums, galleries, events and performance arts venues
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| Spring/Summer 2015
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