Fri 5/5 @ 5:30-7:30PM
Wed 5/3-Sun 6/10
Akron Soul Train, the Akron-based arts organization that gives artists in various disciplines short residencies to develop projects, has announced the latest two shows opening in its downtown galleries.
Columbus-based Katherine G. Moore is a dancer and choreographer whose exhibit the space between landing and falling emerged from a 100-day Instagram project of expressive movement and writing expressing her feelings following her recovered from Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Her writing and images will be on view in the show. In addition, she’ll be doing a gallery performance featuring her choreography on Saturday May 27 @ 5PM.
At the same time, the gallery will be showing recent Kent State ceramics/sculput grad Eva Polzer’s show, Just Girlie Things, subtitled “Sculptures in Conversation with Girlhood Trauma and Gendered Stereotypes Using Domestic Pet Tropes: Submissive Dogs vs. Mysterious Cats.” It explores how women feel about their bodies, using the figures of a Borzoi dog and a Sphinx cat to look at the tactics women use to navigate and authenticate their femininity in a patriarchal culture.
The show will be on view from Wednesday May 3 through Saturday June 10. They’re free and open to the public.
