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Commentaries and critiques on the visual and performing arts in the greater Canton, Ohio area

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Slow Dancing at the Gallery

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Slow Dancing at the Gallery (The Eyes Have It, part 2) I look at looking, mesmerized by how people view pictures in a gallery. It’s a f...
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Monday, March 23, 2009

The Eyes Have It?

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The Eyes Have It? By Tom Wachunas “Beauty is truth - truth beauty – that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” (John Keats) “Be...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Downtown Dumping Ground

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Downtown Dumping Ground By Tom Wachunas Recently I drove by another public art piece by Canton artist Patrick Buckohr. It’s located ou...
Monday, March 16, 2009

When Sardonic Gets Sinister

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When Sardonic Gets Sinister By Tom Wachunas My acquaintance with Michael Horvath is one of those six degrees removed kind of things. He grew...
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Monday, March 2, 2009

Kimono Buffet and the Sum(o) of All Things

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Kimono Buffet and the Sum(o) of All Things By Tom Wachunas It all started when I volunteered my services to ArtsinStark to write up the pres...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

All Dressed Up and...

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All Dressed Up and… By Tom Wachunas Anyone who knows me will tell you that I’ve been grousing for years about The Repository’s refusal to g...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Kimono Viewing 101

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Kimono viewing 101: Don’t forget to breathe By Tom Wachunas One of the common reactions I’ve heard in praise of Kimono is “breathtaking,” as...
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Tom Wachunas
Canton, Ohio, United States
Visual artist, journalist and teacher Tom Wachunas received his BFA (1973) and MFA (1975) degrees from The Ohio State University. From 1977 through 1991 he resided in New York City, where he painted and exhibited extensively and curated shows for “alternative” galleries. During much of that time he was the assistant artistic director of the Diane Jacobowitz Dance Theatre, designing sets and composing sound scores. He has been an accomplished arts journalist since 1986, writing hundreds of reviews and features on the visual and performing arts for numerous regional and international publications. Locally, since 2001, he has had one-man shows at Millworks Gallery (Akron), the Canton Museum of Art, Kent State University Stark, Malone University, The Little Art Gallery (North Canton) , Second April Galerie and Patina Arts Centre in downtown Canton. He is a regular exhibitor in many area group shows. He was curator of Gallery 6000 on the Kent State University at Stark campus from 2009 to 2018, where he was also an assistant professor teaching Art History and Art as a World Phenomenon from 2007 through 2024.
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