Cassaundra Giles
December 17, 2021 – February 10, 2022
Monday – Friday, 11AM – 4PM
Reception: Friday, December 17, 6 – 9PM
Exhibit and Reception are FREE and Open to the Public
Artist Bio
Raised in rural Ohio, Cassaundra Giles began painting over twenty years ago. Inspired by her high school art teacher Mrs. Garmon and fascinated by the work of Jackson Pollock, she developed her own unique style of abstract acrylic painting. The opportunity to travel gave her an even deeper appreciation of the visual world and an understanding of the human response to color.
After marrying her husband Andrew and starting a beautiful family, Cassaundra rediscovered her talent and became more intentional in her artistic practice. Painting with her young daughter has allowed her to explore new techniques and create with the fearlessness of a child.
Her work reflects the colors and beauty she sees in the natural world and conveys a sense of warmth, joy, and hope through her creative use of color and texture.
Cassaundra’s hope is that her paintings will echo her deep connection with God and bring a sense of light and peace to the spaces where they’re displayed.
Upcoming Exhibits
Ohio Watercolor Society’s 2021 Traveling Exhibit
February 14 - March 31, 2022
Open to Ohio residents, as well as members of Ohio art organizations living in neighboring states, this competitive juried exhibition is a showcase for the talent, diversity and energy of artists working in water soluble mediums: watercolor, acrylic, casein, gouache and egg tempera. Awards of cash and materials totaling thousands of dollars makes this one of the premier art exhibits in the State of Ohio.
Hancock County High School Students Advanced Art Show
April 4 - 26, 2022
Teresa Dunn
May 6 - June 29, 2022
Teresa Dunn is a Mexican American artist raised in rural Southern Illinois. Her identity, life, and art is poetically influenced by being suspended between two cultural heritages. Language, space, color, light, and storytelling find expressiveness through moving toward and away from simultaneously contradictory tensions. Gloria Anzaldúa’s “Borderlands” accurately reflects Dunn’s own reconciliation of her mexicansimo with her American-ness and the complexities of growing up and living as multicultural woman in the Midwest.
Clayton Pond
Summer 2022
Clayton Pond (b. 1941) was among the first artists to employ silkscreen printing in a fresh, distinctly personal way. His paintings and limited edition silkscreen prints are immediately recognizable for their bright, cheerful colors and their compositional balance. Over the span of his career, his work has revealed a fascination with vibrant color interactions, and the infinite possibilities that color relationships present. Deviating from the expected and rejecting the conventional, his particular use of color offers the viewer a charming, idiosyncratic interpretation of the world.
Pond’s subject matter ranges from immediate, domestic, and every-day surroundings to the outlandish, surreal, and fantastical, including his imagined perspective of outer space. His interpretations of the human condition evoke his unique sense of humor.
David Sapp, Drawings
September 6 - October 27, 2022
David Sapp, is an artist, writer and professor living near Lake Erie. He teaches studio art and art history and is director of the Little Gallery at Firelands College in Huron, Ohio. He is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Grant and was awarded an Akron Soul Train Fellowship. He creates graphite drawings and writes poetry and prose. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in art and psychology and a Master of Fine Arts degree in drawing. He exhibits his art and publishes his writing in a number of venues across the United States, in Canada and the United Kingdom.