🗓️ February 15, 2025 - May 3, 2025

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

Every New Year, the Jenks closes for 6 weeks to reinvent itself. This year, the gallery re-opened by showcasing five of its top-selling 2024 artists. Four of those five artists are Northeast Ohio women: Luanne Bole-Becker (including a 5-year retrospective of her assemblage work), Kayleigh Deeks, Tanya Hough, and Tracy Zakraysek. The fifth artist is the late Bob Tubbesing. The Middle Earth gallery will host four invitational exhibitions in 2025 (spring Feb–April; summer May– July; fall Aug–Oct; holiday Nov–Dec). The gallery is administered by two women artists, and the Jenks building is owned and led by a husband-and-wife team.

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🗓️ March 15, 2025 - May 15, 2025

Heart and Hand

A woman artist creates with a profound connection to both her inner world and the materials she works with. Her hands, guided by the rhythm of her heart, shape each piece with intention and emotion. Whether she's molding clay, painting a canvas, or sculpting with other mediums, her work transcends technique, becoming a deeply personal expression of her thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Every stroke, every movement, is infused with a sense of passion, vulnerability, and strength. The artist’s creations are not just works of craft but reflections of her soul, revealing her unique perspective on the world around her.

🗓️ March 28, 2025 - May 27, 2025

Dual Exhibition: Paula Damm & Eileen Woods

Valley Art Center presents a captivating exhibition featuring Paula Damm and Eileen Woods, two artists whose deeply personal works explore memory, resilience, and human connection. Damm stitches intimate narratives into fiber and paper, crafting intricate works and dresses made from unconventional materials like packing crate stickers. Woods blends breathtaking portrait embroidery with evocative woodburning, recreating a hospital waiting room to reflect on moments of stillness and observation. Through QR codes, hear the artists share their stories in their own voices. This immersive exhibition merges tradition with contemporary storytelling—don’t miss this unforgettable exploration of life’s complexities.

🗓️ September 18, 2025 - October 18, 2025

Observed Bodies

"Observed Bodies" demonstrates the unseen experiences of pregnancy, birth and the early postpartum period. Mothers share their own journey through art-making, which, brings the theme of the exhibition together; artist mothers.

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