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Akron Art Library
The Akron Art Library is a collection of original artworks, paintings, prints, photographs & mixed-media created by local, regional & international artists.
The Akron Art Library is displayed at the Akron-Summit County Public Library Main Library, across from the reference desk in the Culture and AV department on the second floor. Artwork is available for four-week check out periods with up to five renewals if the work has not been reserved by another library patron.
The Akron Art Library aims to enrich lives through contemporary art & encourage participants to collect art & engage with local artists & programs as they curate their own lives. As part of this lending program. the museum will offer programs about collecting. displaying & caring for art.
Thanks to generous support from the Huntington–Akron Foundation, the Akron Art Library expanded from the original Akron-Summit County Main Library to include the Odom Boulevard Branch, with 10 new original artworks available for library patrons to borrow.
Odom Boulevard Branch Library recently hosted an Akron Art Library Launch Party in partnership with the Akron Art Museum on Monday, December 9, 2019.
Local patrons were able to meet many of the contributing artists who attended the launch party. This included Alexandria Couch, Kwame Gomez, Chris Harvey, Hui-Chu Ying, and Maria Zannetta, plus many other University of Akron / Myers School of Art artists. Library patrons were able not only try their hand at art, but also treated to a printing press demonstration with newly created art they could take home.
Learn more about the participating artists and their works below:
Main Library Collection
Angelo Merendino
ARTIST
Parents Waving Goodbye at Door, 2013
TITLE, DATE
Inkjet print
CATEGORY
Christine Paringer
ARTIST
Untitled Collage, 2010
TITLE, DATE
Mixed media collage
CATEGORY
Emily Sullivan Smith
ARTIST
Plight of the Passenger Pigeons, 2015
TITLE, DATE
12 color screen print with gold leafing
CATEGORY
Jay Croft
ARTIST
Dont Worry We Can Still Be Friends, 2012
TITLE, DATE
Screenprint on paper
CATEGORY
John Sokol
ARTIST
Rita Dove as Mother Love, 1999
TITLE, DATE
Screenprint on paper
CATEGORY
Kristina Paabus
ARTIST
along with, 2017
TITLE, DATE
Etching, aquatint, and lithograph
CATEGORY
Mark Mothersbaugh
ARTIST
Ashtabula Perambulator, 2007
TITLE, DATE
Epson giclée print
CATEGORY
Micah Kraus
ARTIST
PUI Madrid, 2017
TITLE, DATE
Laser engraved acrylic ink on rag paper
CATEGORY
Michael Loderstedt, Craig Lucas
ARTISTS
R from Bestiary, 1999-2000
TITLE, DATE
Screenprint and relief on paper
CATEGORY
Natalie Lanese
ARTIST
Mountain High, 2017
TITLE, DATE
Gouache and collage on paper
CATEGORY
Lizzi Aronhalt
ARTIST
Viejo San Juan, 2018
TITLE, DATE
Acrylic and paint marker on gessoboard
CATEGORY
Ron Barron
ARTIST
Snacks - Washington Heights, 2015
TITLE, DATE
Scanned digital collage, signed artist’s proof
CATEGORY
Christi Birchfield
ARTIST
Tip of the Iceberg , 2018
TITLE, DATE
Batik on muslin
CATEGORY
Alexandria Couch
ARTIST
Only at Home Inside Your Head, 2018
TITLE, DATE
Pen and ink on paper
CATEGORY
Lauren Mckenzie-Noel
ARTIST
Twins, 2018
TITLE, DATE
Acrylic and oil on wood panel
CATEGORY
Darius Steward
ARTIST
Baggage Claim (Rise), Sketch, 2017
TITLE, DATE
Watercolor on paper
CATEGORY
Adana Tillman
ARTIST
Hide and Seek, 2018
TITLE, DATE
Cotton with hand embroidered details
CATEGORY
Odom Boulevard Collection
Joan Colbert
ARTIST
Get Back, Jack!, 2012
TITLE, DATE
Linocut with acrylic on paper
CATEGORY
Kwamé Gomez
ARTIST
Sweet Slumbers, 2019
TITLE, DATE
Acrylic, glitter, ink and wood on wood panel
CATEGORY
Chris Harvey
ARTIST
SHERO: UNMASKED, 2018
TITLE, DATE
Digital inkjet print on paper
CATEGORY
Donald Miller
ARTIST
The Recovery of Memory, 2002
TITLE, DATE
Mixed media on canvas
CATEGORY
Hui-Chu Ying
ARTIST
Merce’s Improvisation: Chance Dance, 2019
TITLE, DATE
Monoprint relief on paper
CATEGORY
The Akron Art Library is a project of the Akron Art Museum in partnership with the Akron-Summit County Public Library.
