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  • Purpose
    • Mission, Vision, Values
  • Leadership
    • Our Team
    • About Our Founder
  • Focus
    • Mental Health
    • Education
    • Arts
    • Mental Health Acronym Guide
  • Initiatives
    • Think Bigger Do Good
    • Policy Work
    • Peg’s Gallery
    • LeBron James Family Foundation
    • The Stepping Up Initiative The Ohio Project
    • A Unified Vision
    • Park Lane Project
    • Clear Pathways
    • Endowments
    • Crisis Response
  • Excellence

Peg’s Gallery


Peg’s Gallery, in the lobby of the Margaret Clark Morgan Building, is one way the Foundation increases awareness and engagement by the general public in the arts. This space is always free and open to the public, which is one way we seeks to increase awareness of and engagement in the arts.

Torch & Brush

Original Metalworks by Megan Shane and Paintings by Jessica Lofthus

Exhibition ran from March 28, 2018 through June 5, 2018

Torch and Brush Megan Shane and Jessica Lofthus featured image

Jessica Lofthus

I’m the child of a seamstress and a carpenter, raised immersed in artisan culture.  I spent my childhood sewing and draping rooms in my mother’s fabrics, painting my bedroom walls, and in family projects of painting, interior and furniture design, and construction. My teen years were spent studying Southwestern indigenous art and watching graffiti artists create enormous, vibrant compositions in the desert sun.  The uniqueness of the environment, and the power indigenous and graffiti painting held to transform otherwise static surroundings fascinated me. My painting and design began to reflect these two different but complimentary styles.  Through getting my BFA from The University of Texas, my companion studies of ancient culture and spirituality became the visual framework for the dialogue of my art. Through my work I examine cultural and soulful paths, through depicting hidden intersections and portals in the universe where different worlds collide. In my mural work, I enjoy transforming environments for cultural and soulful evolution. My largest mural works can be seen in Cafe O’Play in Stow and the block long wall along the Cascade Plaza Parking Deck, on Quaker Street in downtown Akron. More of my work can be seen at www.jessicalofthus.com

More of my work can be seen at www.jessicalofthus.com

Megan Shane

I’m the child of a seamstress and a carpenter, raised immersed in artisan culture.  I spent my childhood sewing and draping rooms in my mother’s fabrics, painting my bedroom walls, and in family projects of painting, interior and furniture design, and construction. My teen years were spent studying Southwestern indigenous art and watching graffiti artists create enormous, vibrant compositions in the desert sun.  The uniqueness of the environment, and the power indigenous and graffiti painting held to transform otherwise static surroundings fascinated me. My painting and design began to reflect these two different but complimentary styles.  Through getting my BFA from The University of Texas, my companion studies of ancient culture and spirituality became the visual framework for the dialogue of my art. Through my work I examine cultural and soulful paths, through depicting hidden intersections and portals in the universe where different worlds collide. In my mural work, I enjoy transforming environments for cultural and soulful evolution. My largest mural works can be seen in Cafe O’Play in Stow and the block long wall along the Cascade Plaza Parking Deck, on Quaker Street in downtown Akron. More of my work can be seen at www.jessicalofthus.com

Connect with me at www.facebook.com/MeganShaneArt.

Previous Exhibitions

Soaring with Hope Artists of MOCA House

October 26, 2022 through January 2, 2022

Material Manipulation

August 17, 2022 through October 18, 2022

Summer Sunshine

June 8, 2022 through August 9, 2022

PARALLEL VOICES

March 23, 2022 through May 24, 2022

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