CLOUDS, new exhibition November 7 First Friday at Constellation Studios

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• Friday, Nov 7, 2025  6pm - 8pm

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Clouds:
Nona Hershey
Jennifer Leach
Michelle Martin

November 7, 2025 – December 27, 2025
November 7 First Friday, 6-8pm
December 5 First Friday, 6-8pm

This exhibition presents 3 artists who contemplate the meaning and transformative nature of clouds. The earth’s unique character as the water planet has made life possible, and yet clouds are intangible but essential. As our weather changes we are keenly affected by cloud formations and forces….we daily read the clouds, and imagine various configurations, and we use euphemisms of clouds for our moods and dreams. These artists use drawing, woodblock printing, and photo-polymer intaglio plates to craft their efforts to capture nature’s ephemeral clouds, and the vast power within.

Nona Hershey was Professor and Chair of Printmaking at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Her work is included in over 100 public and corporate collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Harvard Museum; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Art Gallery; Minnesota Museum of Art; Smithsonian Institute; Krakow National Museum; and the Calcografia Nazionale, Rome. She has had residency grants at the Asillah Forum Foundation, Morocco; Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland; Ucross Foundation, WY; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; Vermont Studio Center, and twice at the MacDowell Colony, NH. Numerous solo exhibitions include Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia; Galleria Il Ponte, Rome; Hunterdon Art Museum, NJ. https://www.nonahershey.com/

Jennifer Leach has an BFA in graphic design and illustration and studied printmaking at Kent State University. She has a post baccalaureate in art education from Cleveland State University. Her work has been shown nationally and locally in galleries including” The Providence Art Club, The Gallery at the Met Store in NYC, the Salmagundi Club in NYC, Boston University, The Fawick Gallery at Baldwin Wallace University, Manhattan Graphics Center, the Erie Art Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, and the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve. Jennifer’s work is included in the Summa Hospital Healing Arts Collection, Dalad Art Collection, and Newark Public Library Special Collections. Jennifer is a member of The Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA) and serves on its board. She is a past president and board member of The Print Club of Cleveland.
jenniferleachgallery.com

Michelle Martin is a Professor of Art at The University of Tulsa and Director of the School of Art, Design and Art History. She received her BFA from Texas Tech University and earned her M.F.A. at The Ohio State University. Her work has been shown in over 230 national and international exhibitions including venues in New Zealand, Venezuela, Iceland, Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey, England, and Canada. Her work is in private, public and university collections, including the Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, Zuckerman Museum of Art (Kennesaw, GA), Kohler Library (Madison, Wisconsin), Muscarelle Museum of Art (The College of William and Mary), the Akron Museum Art Library Program, Rutgers Center for Innovative Paper, the Southwest Collection (Texas Tech University), University Art Museum (University of Louisiana) and Wichita Art Museum. http://www.michellemartinprintmaker.com/

For further information contact:
karen@constellation-studios.net
402-429-8239