Margy Vogt
Special to The Independent Rebecca Cross: Suspended Animations will continue in the Massillon Museum’s Studio M through June 16. Through large-scale drawings and an installation, Suspended Animations considers the current moment, in the context of an environmentally fragile world. Find a podcast interview with the artist at https://www.massillonmuseum.org/533.
HIGHLIGHTS Suspended Animations includes a series of drawings on silk, Horizon Series (2021), and a silk sculptural installation, entitled Rock Cloud (2021). Fragility, impermanence, hidden strength in delicacy, as seen in the Horizon Series, have always been themes of Cross’s work. Silk, her primary medium, creates the illusion of fragility because it is both diaphanous and strong.
Massillon Museum to host portrait workshop
COURTESY OF THE MASSILLON MUSEUM
The Massillon Museum will host it’s next Do the Mu! event, a workshop on portraits with instructor Diane Boslett, at noon June 5 via the museum’s website and its Facebook and YouTube pages.
The workshop will complement the exhibit “A Thrilling Act: The Art of Anthony Eterovich (1916–2011),” which will open June 12 in MassMu’s Aultman Health Foundation Gallery.
Boslett is a licensed visual arts teacher with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ashland College and a master’s degree in education in integrated arts from the University of Rio Grande, and she is a member of the Ohio Art Education Association. She teaches private lessons and workshops at the Massillon Museum and the Massillon Public Library, and she works as an activities assistant at the Canton Christian Home.