NEWS + PRESS
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TOUR OF 2024 OUTLINED IN BLACK EXHIBITION WITH NEW DAY CLEVELAND/ FOX 8
NOVEMBER 2024
“Highlighting and promoting Black artists here in northeast Ohio”
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OUTLINED IN BLACK: CELEBRATING RICHNESS AND CULTURE, WITH AKRON BLACK ARTISTS GUILD
SEPTEMBER 2024
"It’s essential to support specific platforms like Outlined in Black, which celebrate diversity, inclusion, and representation in the arts and ensure that all voices are heard and appreciated".
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AKRON BLACK ARTIST GUILD: RELATIONSHIPS ARE EVERYTHING!
MAY 2024
“A partnership that becomes a good relationship is pivotal in cultivating a community for working artists. Producing programs beyond an initiative or grant cycle is rare for a small nonprofit organization”.
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ABAG A 2023 ART & TECH EXPANSION FUND RECIPIENT
MAY 2024
“Arts and culture are essential for growing informed and engaged communities. Arts practitioners, through their work, connect people to place and to each other. Increasingly, technology is becoming an essential component of this work, both for individual artists and arts organizations, and technology is constantly changing”.
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A Celebration Of Black Artistry At The University Of Akron
OCTOBER 2023
“Our partnership with The University of Akron is the perfect addition, helping us to foster greater connection between artists and the community.”
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The Experience Alchemist work with Safarani Sisters on public artwork at Akron Art Museum
SEPTEMBER 2023
“With guidance from The Akron Black Artists Guild, the museum team hired Akron resident and local creative Tyron Hoisten to film over thirty community members”.
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THE FUTURE OF ART IS TECH
MAY 2023
“The guild recognizes the importance of Black artists being part of this ever-evolving trend, so they’re creating opportunities for artists to explore. “
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Building A Thriving Network
FEBRUARY 2023
“Just three years ago, a collective of Black professional artists imagined that their city could be a destination for Black artists to flourish.”
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Life & Work with Akron Black Artist Guild
AUGUST 2022
“At the end of the day, we’re all deeply passionate about the arts in Akron and how they are essential for our future”
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Front Triennial launches fellowship programme to support marginalised artists
JULY 2022
“Front also assembled a committee with ‘deep roots in the communities of Cleveland and the surrounding areas”
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Neighborhoods are focus of Akron Black Artist Guild fellowship art projects
APRIL 2022
“Several Akron artists will be bringing their visions to life in three neighborhoods over the next two months in projects sponsored by the Akron Black Artist Guild, with funding from the Ohio Arts Council.”
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Elevating Our Mood: Visual Artists of Akron Black Artist Guild
FEBRUARY 2022
“Summa Health is delighted to collaborate with this new cultural Akron institution,”
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Akron Black Artist Guild plans parks project and more collaborations in 2022
JANUARY 2022
“Over the past year, Black artists in Summit County have come together to better promote their work and make arts connections.”
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Meet the 2021 Knight Arts Challenge Winners – Akron
DECEMBER 2021
“7 artists and arts organizations that will share over $500,000 to bring their innovative ideas to life to reach audiences where they are.”
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Knight Arts Challenge awards nearly $400,000 to support arts programs in Akron
DECEMBER 2021
“The largest grant went to the Akron Black Artist Guild, an organization founded in February.”
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Akron’s Black Artist Guild seeks support for entrepreneurial artists this Giving Tuesday
NOVEMBER 2021
“Our first year was focused on experimenting with ideas about what the guild could be”
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Akron Black Artist Guild hosts first exhibition, 'Outlined in Black,' downtown Saturday
OCTOBER 2021
“Akron Black Artist Guild will feature 16 area, Black artists, in its first exhibit”
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Black Artist Guild Spring 2021 Update
APRIL 2021
“The excitement is growing and becoming more organized“
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Akron’s first Black Artist Guild to hold kick-off meeting
JANUARY 2021
“Black artists in greater Akron are invited to attend the inaugural meeting of the Black Artist Guild”
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DOMINIC MOORE-DUNSON AND DARA HARPER LAUNCH BLACK ARTIST GUILD
JANUARY 2021
“The goal of the guild is to help connect Black artists to each other and to resources”