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10th Annual Juried Exhibition Beginning at the end of March, The Morgan Conservatory will be holding our 10th annual Juried Exhibition. Our jurors this year are Sienna Brown, a curator at the Cleveland Clinic, and Jared Ledesma, the senior curator at the Akron Art Museum. The theme of the exhibition is Introspection / Retrospection. Calling forth periods of isolation throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, our vision behind the theme for this year's exhibition is to celebrate the art that was conceived in times of isolation and reintegration, which could bring forth periods of introspection and...

AKRON, Ohio — Jon Fiume, the interim executive director of the Akron Art Museum, readily acknowledges that the management meltdown which surfaced last year at the institution, one of Ohio’s leading art museums, was “definitely shocking.” During the closure imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, laid-off employees publicly shared complaints about alleged workplace violations that included racism, ...