MassMusings

Get to know current Studio M artist Barrie Kaufman on a new episode of our MassMusings podcast! Her exhibition, A Fragile Environment, is on view through November 30, 2022. In the exhibition, Kaufman interprets the natural world with a sense of wonder while addressing its fragility. Barrie Kaufman is an award-winning, international artist from West Virginia working in print media, painting, glass,...

Amber N. Ford is an artist and freelance photographer based in Cleveland, Ohio. She holds a BFA in Photography from the Cleveland Institute of Art. Her work explores Blackness, identity, and culture while questioning the accepted idealized conceptualization of “truth." Ford's images are featured in "Missing History of Massillon: Unheard African American Stories".

Get to know current Studio M artist Daric M. Gill on a new episode of our MassMusings podcast! His exhibition, The Absolutes: Big Small Stories is on view through September 21, 2022. Gill holds a master of fine arts degree from the University of Cincinnati in sculpture and interdisciplinary art, and a bachelor of fine arts degree from Columbus College of Art and Design in sculpture and painting. H...

In this episode of MassMusings, we interview current Studio M artist Steven Mastroianni about his exhibition, Scurograph , on view from June 11 through July 27, 2022. Mastroianni’s current work explores the intersection of drawing, printmaking, and photography. Scurograph , according to the artist, is evocative of watery depths, imaginary galaxies, and mysterious maps. These luminous images create...

 Our MassMusings podcast season 2, episode 2 features a conversation with photographer and educator Gary Harwood alongside the Museum's Curator of Football Heritage Bailey Yoder, and our Archivist Mandy Altimus Stahl. Gary Harwood worked with the Massillon Museum on the original Tiger Legacy exhibition, which opened in November of 2012, and the subsequent version in 2015 which coincided with...

Welcome to season two of MassMusings! In this episode of we interview current Studio M artist Michael Gill about his exhibition "The Grownups Keep Talking/Nobody Knows Why" which is on view through June 1, 2022. 

"Alex Vlasov: I Promise to Make a Fabulous PTG Tomorrow" is on view in the Massillon Museum's Studio M gallery from February 5 through April 6, 2022. Vlasov is pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Cleveland Institute of Art with a Major in Painting and a Minor in Art History. The Museum presents this university student exhibition in Studio M to provide a venue for an emerging...

Join us for a special conversation with past Studio M artist, Carole d'Inverno. Carole exhibited "Transumanza: Massillon, Ohio" in the Museum's Studio M gallery from December 7, 2019, through January 26, 2020.  "Transumanza" is an Italian word that loosely translates to crossing the land. “As a child growing up in Italy, each Spring during the full moon, I was awakene...

"Susan Byrnes: The Viscosity Series" is on view from December 11, 2021, through January 26, 2022, in the Massillon Museum's Studio M. "The Viscosity Series" includes vividly colored artworks inspired by landscapes that are made from transparent and opaque polyurethane cast into a shallow mold, a process of the artist’s own invention. Although the artwork is presented as wa...

Amy Swartelé: Supernormal  is on view in the Massillon Museum’s Studio M from October 16 through December 1, 2021.  Amy Swartelé lived in five countries before the age of 18, a nomadic experience that evolved into her love of travel and the strange. She learned early that what was considered normal or valuable in one place, was strange or devalued in another. Swartelé envisions a group of characte...

Learn all about "Hoard Couture: Where Art Meets Fashion", on display in the Massillon Museum's Studio M until October 6.  Judi Krew's ongoing wearable art series uses clothing design to creatively display a collection of items, explore contemporary social issues, and works with unconventional materials as textiles.  

A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of speaking with Carlos Jones from Carlos Jones & The PLUS Band for a new episode of our podcast, MassMusings! We had such a wonderful conversation, and are excited to share it with you.

This episode of MassMusings features a conversation with internationally acclaimed artist John Chang.  Born and raised in Shanghai, China, the artist is currently based in Southern California. His solo exhibition in MassMu’s Studio M runs through August 11, 2021.  In Ink—Transformation of Calligraphy   accentuates the visual and human aspects of the characters, the mark, and the gesture, transcend...

Join us for MassMusings Podcast Episode #3, our in-depth conversation with CAN Triennial Exhibition prize winner and current Studio M artist Rebecca Cross.  Cross exhibits her artwork nationally and internationally, including in New York City, Sweden, Paris, Budapest, and Nagoya, Japan.  Cross is fascinated by mining the ephemeral potential of transformed materials, where line is made by shadows a...

Join us for a conversation with our current Studio M artist Andrea Palagiano!  Palagiano's exhibition "Self-Conscious" is on view in Studio M through April 25, 2021.  Her exhibition reflects the relationship between introversion and projected self. Palagiano’s references to mythology dovetail with MassMu’s 2021 NEA Big Read, which is based on "Circe" by Madeline Miller, a...

Studio M Coordinator Emily Vigil and Administrative Assistant Anna Young from the Massillon Museum interview photographer and current Studio M artist Alana Cartwright. Cartwright speaks about her new exhibition, Clothed in Resilience, on view from March 6 through March 28, 2021. Please note this episode contains discussions of sexual violence.