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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/new-akron-soul-train-shows-explore-en
 vironment-daily-rituals-and-japanese-ancestry/
SUMMARY:New Akron Soul Train Shows Explore Environment\, Daily Rituals and 
 Japanese Ancestry
DESCRIPTION:&nbsp\;\n\nFri 6/12 @ 5-7:30PM\nAkron Soul Train\, the organiza
 tion that offers artists in a wide range of disciplines short-term “resi
 dencies” to work on specific projects\, is opening three new exhibitions
  at its downtown gallery this week. (They’ll be on view during the Septe
 mber 11 Akron Art Walk\, but the official opening reception is the next da
 y.)\nCleveland-based CIA alum and scientific illustrator Josh Maxwell’s 
 Working Woods: Altered But Not Erased includes sculptural works and painti
 ng drawn from Northeast Ohio landscapes. We’re told he “treats forests
  as living archives—records of ecological change\, human impact\, and on
 going renewal\,” as he attempts to bring what he discovers in the field 
 into his work. “A hollow is not a void—it is an architecture of surviv
 al\,” he says. “A fallen trunk can become a nurse log: a fallen body b
 ecoming ground for what comes next.”\n\nKristen Mimms Scavnivky’s Siti
 ng Ritual: Holding Renewal\, Inscribing Resilience\, is based on everyday 
 rituals such as washing\, eating and gathering with family and friends. Sh
 e created an installation featuring elements she calls “soft architectur
 es\,” objects that exist both in intimate and within communal space. In 
 them\, she references bell hooks’ idea of the Black homeplace as a site 
 of resistance and care\, and the spatial injustice of the Jim Crow era. Th
 ese references inform a practice that bridges the intimate and collective\
 , asking how ordinary gestures can carry both trauma and resilience. She i
 s an assistant professor of architecture at Kent State University.\n\nFina
 lly\, in the CapSOUL Gallery\, dedicated to emerging artists\, akron paint
 er Nick Lee has put together a show called Through Our Nikkei Eyes\, of ar
 tists of Japanese descent working throughout the U.S. It includes painting
 \, sculpture\, printmaking and documentary as the five artists share their
  perceptions of what it means to be Japanese or of Japanese ancestry in th
 is country.\nThe shows will be on view through Saturday July 18.\nakronsou
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