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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. ....
Bailey Yoder will talk about the exhibition Play Like a Girl: Massillon Women’s Tiger Teams from Gym Class to Title IX, which can be seen at the Massillon Museum. ....
Massillon Museum to offer Do the Mu! COURTESY OF THE MASSILLON MUSEUM The Massillon Museum will offer its next Do the Mu! program at noon May 25 on MCTV channels 21 and 621 and its YouTube pages, featuring Bailey Yoder’s presentation “Play Like a Girl.” Yoder will talk about the exhibition “Play Like a Girl: Massillon Women’s Tiger Teams from Gym Class to Title IX and girls’ basketball teams at the turn of the last century, which were organized by Massillon High School before the school instituted boys’ teams. She will include groundbreaking female athletes like golfer Eva Shorb and track star Kelly Bodiford Banks. ....
What s new at the Mu? Studio M to host Andrea Palagiano: Self-Conscious Margy Vogt Special to The Independent Mythological references in Andrea Palagiano: Self Conscious in MassMu’s Studio M dovetail with MassMu’s 2021 NEA Big Read, based on Circe, by Madeline Miller, a book reimagining the story of a mythological Greek sorceress. HIGHLIGHTS The exhibition reflects the relationship between introversion and projected self. The integration of figure and pattern and the application of layers indicate the thought process in defining self within society. She is inspired by characters from Greek mythology and 16th century Italian artist Caravaggio’s sense of drama. Living in a different country every year of her childhood introduced Palagiano to varying cultures and customs, sparking her love of sociology and psychology. ....