A Growing Conversation: Artworks From Our Collection
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Wed, Jan 1, 2025 - Wed, Dec 31, 2025
Location
Akron Art Museum
1 S High St
Details
The Haslinger Family Foundation Galleries feature artworks selected from the Museum’s collection of over 7000 objects. The works are arranged by theme, rather than by historical period, resulting in new, unexpected, and exciting connections. Recently, these galleries have been reinstalled under the title A Growing Conversation: Artworks from Our Collection— a truly fitting description. Contemporary art is always expanding, and the Museum’s collection is always growing with it. This new presentation draws inspiration from a variety of recent acquisitions, and a small number of loans from outside the collection are also on view, helping to enrich the groupings.
The Akron Art Museum’s collection includes works of art created between 1850 and the present. This timeframe spans the “modern” and “contemporary” periods of art history, so named because during this era artists have faced rapid changes in technology, politics, social structure, global interconnection, and more. Creative people have responded with equal swiftness, expanding what art can be, what it can mean, and whose creativity should be valued. The conversations offered by artists and artworks are never complete, but instead remain ongoing, urgent, and energetic.
