Kicking off on Thu 6/24 @ 6:30PM
Downtown@Dusk is sort of like Wade Oval Wednesdays… except it’s in Akron… and on Thu evenings. Still, it’s a super-cool summer concert series. Bring a chair to the Akron Art Museum’s parking lot for live performances, art activities for kids and ArtTalks@Dusk.
Catch the first Downtown@Dusk concert on Thu 6/24. Here’s the schedule:
Thu 6/24 – Wanda Hunt Band, Old School Rhythm & Blues
• ArtTalk@Dusk: The Accidental Aesthetics of Urban Decline, Terry Schwarz, interim director of the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative and founder of Pop Up City Cleveland
Thu 7/1 – Patrick Sweany, Blues, Folk and Soul Inspired Americana
• ArtTalk@Dusk: Ruined Nation: Photographing Abandoned Buildings in Northeast Ohio, Carissa Russell, graphic designer and photographer
Thu 7/8 – Colin Dussault, Blues, Roots and Rock
• ArtTalk@Dusk: Living with Detroit: An All Purpose Guide to American Forgetting, Jerry Herron, Dean of Irvin D. Reid Honors College, Wayne State University
Thu 7/15 – Anne E. DeChant, Folk Rock
• ArtTalk@Dusk: Loveland: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Detroit Micro Real Estate…But were too Afraid to Ask, Jerry Paffendorf, Loveland CEO
Thu 7/22 – Sammy DeLeon, Latin Jazz
• ArtTalk@Dusk: Can Art Save Detroit?, Barbara Tannenbaum, director of curatorial affairs
Thu 7/29 – 15 60 75 The Numbers Band, Rock/Abstract Blues
• ArtTalk@Dusk: Grizzled Wizardry, PR Miller, artist
Thu 8/5 – Robin Stone, Neo Soul
• ArtTalk@Dusk: Crystalline Voyages: Polar Exploration in Art, Ellen Rudolph, curator of exhibitions
Thu 8/12 – Cats on Holiday, Swamp Pop
• ArtTalk@Dusk: Dance Demonstration, Jill Sigman, conceptual performance artist/dancer and Gustavo Aguilar, percussionist
6:30 – 8:30PM @ 1 S. High St. – Akron
http://AkronArtMuseum.org/calendar/details.php?unid=1612