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

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Communicable Complexities

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Communicable Complexities By Tom Wachunas For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. –Deuteronomy 4:24 – “If you want to make...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

The Near East Comes to Canton

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Regional Premiere of “The Near East” at Canton Players Guild Theatre By Tom Wachunas The New Play Conservatory program of the Canton Pla...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Mesmerized

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Mesmerized By Tom Wachunas The March 22 Aultman PrimeTime concert in Cable Recital Hall was yet another reminder of how the combination ...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Ludwig and Wolfgang: Birds of a Feather?

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Ludwig and Wolfgang: Birds of a Feather? By Tom Wachunas In 1787, 16 year-old Ludwig van Beethoven traveled some 900 miles from Bonn to ...
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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Drawn to the Light

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Drawn to the Light By Tom Wachunas “Every Portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” – Oscar...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

The Gallery As Curiosity Shop

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The Gallery As Curiosity Shop By Tom Wachunas In some ways, the 39th Annual Faculty Exhibition at Kent Stark’s Main Hall Gallery has all...
Saturday, March 3, 2012

Tchotchkes Transformed

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Tchotchkes Transformed By Tom Wachunas “I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.” – Andy Warhol ...
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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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