Awards Announced-ASHCAL Juried Members Exhibition

The Coburn Gallery at Ashland University announces awards for regional juried exhibition featuring 22 members of the Ashland Community Art League. The juror for the exhibition was professor and fine artist Priscilla Roggenkamp from Alliance, Ohio.

An opening reception was held on Friday, May 14, with $450.00 in awards announced including Best in Show, Peggy Stover, watercolor painting titled, Yellow Blue, 1st Place Marty Bossler Lee charcoal drawing, Nightfall, 2nd Place Barbara Morejon, felted wool sculpture, Vessels Revealed and two Juror Honorable Mentions-Betz Johnson Richards, colored pencil drawing, Canary Girl, and Heidi Weller, Self Portrait Pandemic, oil on paper. All artworks and awards were selected by the juror.

The exhibition includes local artists Barbara Nell Morejon, Bea North, Christine Krantz, Betty Perry, Betz Johnson Richards, Scott Parillo, Cynthia C. Petry, Jennifer Geraci, Dana Sherburne, Debra Akers, Elizabeth Klingler, Martha Buckner, Irene Maginniss, Janet Wells, Jerome A. Klobutcher, Marty Bossler Lee, Heidi Weller, MP Marion, Nancy Dupre, Peggy Stover, Irv Oslin, and Susan Shafer. 

The exhibition showcases local artistic talent in the Ashland community and will run from May 14 through July 23, 2021.

The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 12 noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday and is free and open to the public. Covid-19 safety protocols include: a maximum of 15 visitors that may visit the gallery at one time, and groups no larger than 5, and face masks must be worn. For more information about the opening reception or the exhibition, call 419.289.5652 or visit us on Facebook.

ASHCAL Members Exhibition Opens Friday May 14th

The Coburn Gallery at Ashland University announces a regional juried exhibition featuring 49 works created by the members of the Ashland Community Arts League. The works on view will range from painting, ceramics, photography, fiber arts, printmaking, glass, drawing and mixed media. The Ashland Community Arts League juried members exhibition opens on Friday May 14 with a reception from 6:00-7:30pm. The event is free and open to the public.

Exhibiting artists include Barbara Nell Morejon, Bea North, Christine Krantz, Betty Perry, Betz Johnson Richards, Scott Parillo, Cynthia C. Petry, Jennifer Geraci, Dana Sherburne, Debra Akers, Elizabeth Klingler, Martha Buckner, Irene Maginniss, Janet Wells, Jerome A. Klobutcher, Marty Bossler Lee, Heidi Weller, MP Marion, Nancy Dupre, Peggy Stover, Irv Oslin, and Susan Shafer.

The juror for the exhibition was Priscilla Roggenkamp who is an artist and associate professor of art living in Alliance, Ohio. She studied art at Kent State University (M.F.A.), University of Arkansas (M.Ed.) and Heidelberg College (B.A.).  Her artwork moves in two directions.  Fiber-based sculptural works that relate to human concerns and often consider what we carry in life.  And two-dimensional works that relate to nature, time and place and most often lean toward abstraction. She has shown her work in a variety of places such as Chicago’s Woman Made Gallery, the Canton Museum of Art, the Brogan Museum in Florida and internationally in The Western Galilee, Israel.  She is represented by (Not) Sheep Gallery in Columbus.  She curated an exhibition related to the play Romeo and Juliet, a textile exhibition called The Threads That Bind and co curated The Women of Resilience Exhibition.  In 2015, she attended a residency at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, ME.  In 2021, she was awarded an Individual Excellence Award FY21 from the Ohio Arts Council.

Priscilla has taught at The College of Wooster, Mount Union College, Canton Country Day School, Blue Ridge Community College, James Madison University and the University of Arkansas.  She is currently teaching at Ashland University.  

The Ashland Community Arts League juried members exhibition will be on view May 14- July 23, 2021.

The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 12 noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday and is free and open to the public. Covid-19 safety protocols include: a maximum of 15 visitors that may visit the gallery at one time, and groups no larger than 5, and face masks must be worn. For more information about the opening reception or the exhibition, call 419.289.5652 or visit us on Facebook.