Artist Bio

Rob Shorter

“I’ve always loved to draw,” says Robert Shorter. “In the beginning I did quite a bit of oil paintings on canvas, but clean up and space were always issues. I found over time that I was able to draw and achieve the results I wanted without the clean up problems using color pencils. I eventually taught myself to ‘paint’ with pencils. The richness of Prismacolor pencils allows me to capture any subject in the vivid colors of oils without the sometimes messy cleanup.”
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Gale Stephens

Gale Stephens, a talented artist, was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. She graduated from Scott High School and just recently retired from Toledo Hospital, after thirty three (33) years of service.
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Paula Elaine Fullilove

I was in the kindergarten when I first discovered the POWER of art. The teacher on this particular day had given us all some clay (maybe you are old enough to remember clay when it looked like a green stick of butter). My teacher, Mrs. Churchill had given but one instruction: “Play with it.” However you choose to look at it, there’s power in both the creator and the observer of art.

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Alice Grace

Cookie Jar Lady Expands Her Horizons
“My work shows how I grew up and each piece tells a story,” says Alice Grace. “It is therapeutic … getting rid of some of those things I grew up with … a form of self expression.”
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Klaire

She Just Started Painting
When one asks an artist how or when she started her creative efforts, the response is, more often than not, that it has always been so. ‘I have been painting ever since I was a child,’ she generally replies.
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Mack Walton

Mack Walton’s Passion: Art as a Life’s Work
For so many artists, their work is simply what they feel compelled to do. For such artists, releasing their creative juices is as much a part of life as breathing.
“It’s my life’s work,” says local artist Mack Walton. “I love this.”  MORE >

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Ronald Jamison

Blending the Cosmic, and the Comic, with Nature
Ronald Jamison has been painting for as long as he can remember. The Toledo native remembers being influenced at an early age by his uncle, Johanna Nichols, an artist who was one of the founding members of the Conference of Black Artists (COBA) during the 1970’2, a group that also included the estimable Marvin Vines, another Jamison influence.
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Mary C. McColough

Mary has been studying, teaching and creating art for the past 30 years. For the past ten years, she has worked from her studio at Common Space in Toledo, Ohio. Best known for her colorfully, abstracted work in watermedia, she also creates art using printmaking techniques specifically linoprints.

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Wade Anthony Harrison

Born and raised in Toledo, Ohio, the son of Grover Cummings, Wade was encouraged to express himself through art from the very beginning. He started painting from the bed sheets, to the walls, onto paper. He used his art as a way of expression and to release his emotions.

Growing up in the late 60’s and early 70’s, Wade became influenced by the tide of the Black Power movement. Taking his self awareness cues from his mother and coupling that with the creative talent of his photographer father, he gravitated towards those musical expressions that were revolutionary; namely jazz, reggae, and hip hop. He consequently became infamous and influential in another revolution, the emerging Toledo graffiti art revolution, under the tag “Swade”. MORE >