Exhibitions

Standing Rock Cultural Arts and The Women’s Art Recognition
Movement (W.A.R.M.) present: "WARM Your Walls" Silent Art Auction
-9th Annual WARM Arts Silent Auction
-to benefit Safer Futures, The Portage County Battered Women's Shelter
-highlighting the artistic achievements of women.
-Photographs, Paintings, Collages, Beaded Jewelry, Clothing and more
-food, beverages, and music

Saturday, March 6th, 8pm. Opening Reception
-Auction closes at 5pm on Saturday, March 20
at the North Water Street Gallery, 257 N. Water St., Kent

CONTACT: 330-673-4970 or 330-686-9800

GALLERY HOURS: Thursday-Saturday 1-5pm.
-Or by appointment @ 330-673-4970

ABOUT THE WOMEN’S ART RECOGNITION MOVEMENT (W.A.R.M)

W.A.R.M. is a nonprofit, grassroots organization of international women
artists founded in 1999 by Dr Molly Merryman and Cheryl Townsend, with
the sole intent of utilizing and promoting the artistic eclecticism of
women through exhibitions, workshops, seminars, performances,
publications, and whatever means necessary to ensure her voice is heard,
her vision shared, her art available.

Based in the Standing Rock Cultural Arts North Water Street Gallery in
Kent, OH, it has curated shows at Blue Ruin Gallery in Pittsburgh and
numerous Ohio located venues.

WARM hosts an annual fundraising show at its base, the North Water
Street Gallery in March. Women are always welcome to submit their work
for consideration. Posting to this site (http://warmart.ning.com/ ) is
one method to do so, or e-mailed jpgs can be sent to warmarts@aol.com as
well as mailed on CD to 4975 Comanche Trail, Stow, OH 44224.

"PAIRS" Art Exhibition. 8th Annual Environmental Art Show.

In Conjunction with The 4th Annual “Who’s Your Mama?” Earth Day and
Environmental Film Festival.

OPENING RECEPTION MARCH 26, 7:30-10:00pm
-SHOW RUNS THROUGH MAY 1, 2010
at the North Water Street Gallery, 257 N. Water St., Downtown Kent

Featuring Paintings by New York City Artists
-Alexandra Chernozatonskaya
-Malado Baldwin
-Erin Haldrup
-Christina Kee
-Katherine Chilcote (Cleveland)
-Erin Koch

ALSO FEATURING “SCULPTURE AND POEMS FROM THE TREE”
BY JIM VANDENBOOM.
-Poems provided by Local Elementary School Children in collaboration
with The Wick Poetry Program of Kent State University
-Sculpture provided by Jim Vandenboom
-Poems will be read in Downtown Kent during The “Who’s Your Mama?” Earth
Day and Environmental Film Festival on April 24th at The Home Savings Plaza.

CONTACT: 330-673-4970

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Shura Chernozatonskaya: www.shuraskaya.com

Born Moscow, Russia

Education

* 2006 New York Studio School, MFA in Painting
* 2000 Oberlin College, Bachelor of Arts in Art History
* 2000 Oberlin Conservatory, Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance

Exhibitions

2010 Miseducation, Brucennial, New York, NY
2009 Chicken Legs, Universam Art fair, Moscow, Russia
2008 LCU Foundation Spring Showcase, The New York Academy of Art
2007 Night of 1000 Drawings, Artist Space, New York, NY
2007 Alumni Show, New York Studio School, New York, NY
2007 Bushwick Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Keyhole Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2006 MFA Thesis Show, New York Studio School, New York NY
2006 Works on Paper, New York Studio School, New York NY
2005 Three Women, Keyhole Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2004 New York Studio School, New York NY
2003 Naked Duck Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2002 DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2000 North Water Street Gallery, Kent OH
1999 The Feve, Oberlin OH
1997 North Water Street Gallery, Kent OH

Malado Baldwin: www.maladobaldwin.com

Erin Haldrup: http://erinhaldrup.com/home.html

Christina Kee: www.christinakee.com (under construction)

Katherine Chilcote: ClevelandMurals.org (under construction)

Erin Koch

Jim Vandenboom: BFA Cleveland Institute of Art. MFA in Sculpture from
Kent State University. Jim's Project: From the Tree was created to
provide a venue and spotlight for the creative efforts for Kent
elementary school students, local poets, and two outstanding
organizations that are teaching our children the benefits of creative
thinking. Standing Rock Cultural Arts and WICK Poetry Outreach Program
of Kent State University: http://dept.kent.edu/wick. The students have
been asked to consider their relationship and interdependence with
trees; physically, emotionally and metaphorically. Each participating
student will receive a professionally mounted print of their poem and a
commemorative chapbook with all 20 poems.

Standing Rock Cultural Arts and Hattie Larlham Creative Arts Program present:

"POS ABILITIES III" Art Exhibition
-Paintings by Children and Young Adults enrolled in the Creative Arts
Program of The Hattie Larlham Center for Children with Disabilities

RESCHEDULED RECEPTION! Thursday, January 28, 7-9pm. Closing Reception
-Show runs January 8 - 30.

Standing Rock Cultural Arts is pleased to be collaborating for the 3rd
year in a row, with The Hattie Larlham Center for Children with
Disabilities on this exhibition. The work exhibited covers a wide range
of colors, textures, moods, and personalities. We invite the community
to come view this unique exhibition that explores the creative
possibilities of children with disabilities in our area.

Images from the Opening

ABOUT THE SHOW:

Hattie Larlham Creative Arts – Standing Rock Cultural Arts’ North Water
Street Gallery Exhibit
Phylliss L. Steiner, Director

The exploration of ART began at Hattie Larlham in 2004 in the new
Education Center at the Hattie Larlham Center for Children with
Disabilities. Here, exploring different types of painting, watercolor
and textures was a weekly occurrence for children in the school program
and young adults in ACHIEVE. In June 2007, Hattie Larlham expanded its’
ART services to the new Creative Art Program.

Professional Artists have joined the Hattie Larlham team to work
one-on-one with individuals to create paintings on canvas. Each part of
the painting is made by the choice of the individual, by a series of
questions that have a yes/no answer. Assistive technology, such as laser
beams, are used when necessary, so the artists and “show” where they
want the paint to be placed on the canvas. Hattie has enlisted the
assistance and expertise of the Matheny School and Education Center and
the A.R.T. Realization project, both out of New Jersey, to begin this
creative process for people with severe disabilities.

Presently, the canvas painting is the beginning of the Creative Arts
program and as you will see at the Exhibit at The North Water Street
Gallery, the self-expression is really coming through for all of our
artists! Our professional ART staff are experimenting with new tools and
techniques each day to expose more and more of our individuals to this
unique outlet for creativity. In 2010, Hattie Larlham will explore other
artistic disciplines: music, digital art, digital photography and video,
pottery and weaving.

Children think nothing of grabbing a paintbrush and painting a picture.
But for children with disabilities, like the limited use or control of
their arms and hands, such a task is almost impossible.

Some painting techniques for artists with disabilities end up creating
paintings by another person. By following the direction and choices of
the artist, the techniques used in the Hattie Larlham Creative Arts
program create paintings vicariously through another person.

In this way, Hattie Larlham Creative Arts provides hands to people who
have never held a paintbrush before and gives artists, regardless of
ability, complete control over their creativity and self-expression.

A combination of art appreciation and application, Creative Arts engages
more than 70 children and adults at Hattie Larlham in a variety of
artistic activities. Although the program initially focused on painting,
it has expanded to include photography, sculpting, music, poetry and
other forms of artistic expression.

The paintings that you see are for sale at The North Water Street
Gallery and later, at the Hattie Café’ Fountain and Gifts, located in
Hudson. We are proud to announce that 100% of the proceeds of the sale
of each painting goes directly to the individual artist. Hattie Larlham
does not require any compensation for their role in this process. Our
mission is strictly to allow all people with disabilities to express
themselves in any way they can. Expose and Explore is our mantra. We
welcome you to come by and visit us in our studio and watch the
creativity yourself!

Kindest regards,
Phylliss L. Steiner, Director
Creative Arts/Media Productions
Hattie Larlham Community Living

WEBSITE: http://www.hattielarlham.org

Standing Rock Cultural Arts and The Massillon Museum present:
Akron Art Explorers Photography Exhibition
-Collaborative Photography Project
-Featuring work by Students of Standing Rock Cultural Arts, The
Massillon Museum, and Akron High Schools

Opening Reception, Saturday, February 6, 7-9pm
-Exhibit runs through February 27.
North Water Street Gallery, 257 N. Water St., Downtown Kent

CONTACT: Jeff at 330-673-4970

Images from the Opening

The Massillon Museum

About the Exhibition

The Akron Art Explorers group is hosted and organized by the Massillon
Museum and facilitated through the Boy Scouts of America. Student
members of the group are in high school and hail from all over Summit
County. For this exhibit there are selections from a previous project,
"Common Ground," as well as work from students of Standing Rock Cultural
Arts in Kent, Ohio.
Supervising the Akron Art Explorers are Alexandra Nicholis, MassMu
curator, and artists Jody Hawk, Bernadette Glorioso, and Todd V.

The Massillon Museum Explorers have been a club since April 2009.
Members come from greater Massillon, Jackson Township, Perry Township,
and Doylestown. They created the artwork for Studio M (an emerging
artist showcase at The Massillon Museum) while working with artists Scot
Phillips and Emily Vigil during "Do the Mu" art workshops. Work
influenced by Phillips uses found materials, collage,
screenprinting, spray paint and stencils. Artwork created with Vigil are
monoprints.

Studio M enhances the collaboration between the Museum and the
community by showcasing the artistic talents of local, regional, and
national artists. The series of five-week shows continues
throughout the year, selected by jurors from proposals submitted by
artists. Brochures containing guidelines and an application are
available by contacting the Massillon Museum at 330-833-4061 or
www.massillonmuseum.org <http://www.massillonmuseum.org>.

The Massillon Museum is located at 121 Lincoln Way East (Ohio Route
172) in the heart of downtown Massillon. A visit to the Massillon
Museum is always free.

*Media Contacts:*

Alexandra Nicholis, Massillon Museum Curator and Akron Art Explorers
Supervisor - 330-833-4061

Jill Malusky Bacon, Massillon Museum Educator and Massillon Museum
Explorers Supervisor - 330-833-4061

Margy Vogt, Massillon Museum PR Coordinator - 330-844-1525

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Standing Rock Cultural Arts is a 501(c)(3) organization. We are always
looking for sponsors to help cover expenses for our art and educational
activities. Donations are tax deductible.

Checks payable to:

SRCA
257 N. Water St.
Kent, OH 44240

Thank you for supporting the Arts!

“Nocturnal Journey” Photography Exhibition
-work by Thom Passarelli

Saturday, December 5, 8pm. Opening Reception.
-Exhibition runs through December 26

North Water Street Gallery, 257 N. Water St., Downtown Kent

CONTACT: 330-673-4970

Donations for Standing Rock Cultural Arts’ art and education programs
are greatly appreciated.

GALLERY HOURS: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm. Or by appointment. 330-673-4970.

About the Artist

Thomas Passarelli

I use photography as a way to capture moments in time. I use my lens as
a way to convey feeling and emotion by capturing the people, places, and
objects I encounter. As a photographer I an interested in my place and
time and how they relate to universal themes of the temporal, fragile,
fleeting moments, hidden growing and decaying worlds of intrinsic
beauty. Entropy and what's considered ugly or useless, I consider
unconventional beauty. The quality of light and color in my work is
imperative as it suggests the opportunity for emotive and visceral
responses. My hope is to impart a similar feeling to the people who view
my images as I had when encountering my subject. I enjoy presenting my
work in such a way as to invite interpretations, intuitions, narratives
or memories that my photographs might invoke and inspire.

My mission as a photographer is to be prepared and open to interesting
opportunities and possibilities for image making every day. When an
opportunity presents itself, I am compelled to still that moment. The
photographic medium for me is not about taking pictures as documentation
but a way to express the infinite conditions of human emotion. Days may
pass before I view my images again, but I am compelled by the same
sensations that inspired me to initially take that picture. The passing
moments of busy lives, irrelevant or remarkable inspire and move me. I
am happy to have the opportunity to share my vision of the world with you.

Standing Rock Cultural Arts is a 501(c)(3) organization. We are always
looking for sponsors to help cover expenses for our art and educational
activities. Donations are tax deductible.

Checks payable to:

SRCA
257 N. Water St.
Kent, OH 44240

Thank you to our current sponsors: The Ohio Arts Council, The City of
Kent, The Christenson Foundation, The Home Savings Bank, The Hall-Green
Insurance Agency, Woodsy's Music, Kent Parks and Recreation, City Bank
Antiques, Family and Community Services of Portage County, Ray’s Place,
Taco Tantos, The Wild Goat Cafe, The Star of the West Milling Company,
and the Kent Area Chamber of Commerce.

7th Annual Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) art exhibition
-featuring Vince Packard, Martyn Flunoy, Kate Uhrich, Kelley Hayes, Ally
Carr, Jim Jewell, Cari Miller and more!
-paintings, collage, large scale puppets, photographs and more

October 31, 8pm. Opening Reception
-coincides with the annual downtown Kent Halloween parade
-exhibit runs through November 28, 2009

At the North Water Street Gallery, 257 N. Water St., Kent

CONTACT: 330-673-4970

GALLERY HOURS: Thursday-Saturday 1-5pm or by appointment.

Dia de los Muertos description:

Come celebrate our 7th annual Day of the Dead show. This festive Mexican
Holiday honors all those who have passed before us. But let us not be
somber. There will be music, food, drinks, paintings and large puppet
sculptures. Like the celebration of a birthday, this holiday reconfirms
annually the love, goodwill, and generosity that the beloved can count
on, no matter that they are dead.

Images from the Opening

From Wikipedia…

Día de los Muertos is a holiday celebrated in many parts of the world,
typically on November 1 (All Saints' Day) and November 2 (All Souls' Day).

The Day of the Dead is also celebrated to a lesser extent in other Latin
American countries; for example, it is a public holiday in Brazil, where
many Brazilians celebrate it by visiting cemeteries and churches. The
holiday is also observed in the Philippines. Observance of the holiday
has spread to Mexican-American communities in the United States, where
in some locations, the traditions are being extended. Similarly-themed
celebrations also appear in some Asian and African culture.

Though the subject matter may be considered morbid from the perspective
of some other cultures, celebrants typically approach the Day of the
Dead joyfully, and though it occurs at the same time as Halloween, All
Saints' Day and All Souls Day, the traditional mood is much brighter
with emphasis on celebrating and honoring the lives of the deceased, and
celebrating the continuation of life; the belief is not that death is
the end, but rather the beginning of a new stage in life.

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About the Artists

Kate Uhrich

http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/a/artistkt/

Born in Landstuhl, Germany, Kathryn Uhrich earned her Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree at Kent State University. Expressionist Film and
Installation Sculpture heavily influenced her work. She was invited to
teach Photography and Ceramics at Notre Dame High School, going on to
seek certification in the field. Her involvement in The Cleveland Film
Society and other outside influences heightened her interest in
Contemporary Photography. Integrating technology, film and photography
to capture nuances of modernity and the experience of being, the pang of
existence, is the essence of her creative process. Her work is
frequently exhibited in the Cleveland area, Chicago ...

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Kelley Hayes

http://www.apollonova.com/art/associate-members/kelly-reed

Kam Hayes graduated from Culver Academies. She then went on to obtain a
Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kent State University. After starving for
several years, Kam obtained an Associates Degree of Nursing, and is
currently employed as a Registered Nurse. She considers caring for the
walking, and not-so-walking wounded as penance for years of
irresponsibility and decadence.

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Vince Packard

www.cannibol.com

When I was born my dad Raymond was teaching art deep in the Appalachian
eastern Kentucky county of Pike, my mom, Ellen, being a beautiful ballet
dancer refugee from Berlin Germany. Riddle: The year I was born is
exactly the same upside down. The whole year. As in 1001, 1691, it
doesn't happen again until the year 6009.

I grew up pretty much in Akron Ohio playing in my dad's west exchange
street art gallery. That could be really fun with shows by Peter Max and
Mark Mothersbough, and the big blow-up soft sculpture car that all the
kid's came around to jump on. But often the art could be really boring
and I came to trust my child's eye that I never wanted to go the boring,
elitist, academic route.

A couple years in Venice beach California with my brothers Raynard and
Damon and dad, and then hitching around the country wound me up at a
Native American demonstration in Washington called the Longest Walk.
With the Native culture I refined a perspective on the environment and
the tribal challenge to our destructive culture.

Teenage angst and rebellion led me into the punk music/art scene just in
time for the Reagan era. The idea that Americans elected that idiot for
a president pushed me into punk and alternative ideas as far as I could go.

I did a stint in Michigan growing veggies and milking goats at the farm
outside of Lansing. I liked that direction and before long me and Liz
found ourselves in the backwoods of Lincoln County, West Virginia,
building a solar powered cabin and riding horses every day. The outhouse
hippy redneck scene was fulfilling and my art geared more towards
environmental activism and wildlife and my son Corey was born in 1986.
the end of the decade me and Liz split and I headed over the Ohio River
to Athens Ohio.

Dave Nicholi Araca helped me explore the tattooing scene which I had
dabbled in since I was 14. This got me traveling to tattoo conventions
near and far selling my design sheets in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New
Orleans and everywhere in between. Sadly, Dave died unexpectedly,
leaving me to fake my way into tattoo shops. The 90's saw me work in
shops in Kalamazoo Michigan, Lexington and Richmond Kentucky, Athens
Georgia and Pigeon Forge Tennessee. I spent 3 fun years tattooing in San
Marcos Texas at Touch of a Feather and 3 more in the hoppin'
neighborhood of Little 5 points in Atlanta at Urban Tribe Tattoos.

Tattooing was great but I wanted to take some time off to explore other
mediums. It's been a tricky transition, when I was close to destitution
I had some horrible experiences in some crappy tattoo shops that burned
me bad. This new millennium brought me back up to Kent Ohio doing
wonderful fun projects with Jexo at Standing Rock Cultural Arts. My work
with the kid's plays, my art shows, mask workshops and puppets at the
North Water Street Gallery and the friends, family and community have
kept life good.

But not enough to keep me away from the mountains of West Virginia. So
here I reside, back home in the holler.

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Cari Miller

http://www.sunthingspecial.com/

Name: Cari Miller

Media: Acrylic on canvas and wooden mirror frames; photography; assemblages

Education: A degree in communications from The University of Akron
(summa cum laude) and post-baccalaureate studies at the Mary Schiller
School of Arts

Artistic Influences: Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Henry Matisse.
Picasso especially is an inspiration for all the media he mastered, his
wide variety of styles, and the incredible longevity of his career.
Also, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston and Paul Strand for their
outstanding black and white photography.

Standing Rock Cultural Arts is a nonprofit organization including the North Water Street Gallery located in Kent, Ohio. The North Water Street Gallery is committed to bringing full-blown art to the public. Artists are typically local, however, there are several artists featured from out of the state, out of the country, and out of their minds! All artists are encouraged to show their work regardless of race, creed, age, gender, or expertise. Send work, pictures of work, slides, or just bring what you have to:

257 North Water Street Kent, Ohio 44240
or contact us at: info@standingrock.net
Jeff Ingram ~ Curator of Exhibitions 330.673.4970
Gary Lockwood ~ Artistic Director 330.903.2055