“My grandfather, Narciso “Chicho” García, worked as a tile setter in Monterrey, Mexico and Harlingen, Texas for most of his life. Two generations later, I work as an artist and art professor. I often feel that my life is completely different from my grandfather’s because of our differences in professions, education, socio-economic statuses, languages, religion, and gender. However, I have found a connection with him through making. Everyday, I use a pencil and ruler to draw and measure just as my grandfather did.

Canton artist Margene May's artwork is instantly recognizable for its lively ethnic patterns and warm earth tones, and from the African American people, usually women, who are the subjects of her portraits.

Eileen Woods and Barbara Vogel create art that references our fragility as human beings and how life can drastically change or end in a single moment. In the exhibition Fragile, Vogel exhibits portraits of friends and relatives who face or have succumbed to life-altering events. Woods’ subject matter is gun violence.

The Canton Museum of Art presents Spotlight: A Juried Exhibition of Artists from CMA Affiliate Groups. This exhibition highlights members of the two affiliate groups of CMA: The Canton Ceramic Artists Guild and Canton Artist League.

The Canton Ceramic Artists Guild was founded in 1974 by a group of dedicated ceramic artists committed to the advancement of the Museum's ceramics program. The Guild meets once a month, to organize their volunteer hours, plan upcoming sales, and share ideas and techniques.

“Alone an artist becomes a routine man. He does the work just before him and does it as work. But when [artists] are working in art together, [when they] have a club or cooperative studio, then Art, once more, becomes a living vital thing. There is atmosphere — which Cleveland lacked when we came here, and we formed the Kokoon Klub to achieve it, for the good of ourselves and our work.”