Gallery 732 Hosts Local Area Artists' Shows

Our prestigious art gallery has been showing the work of local artists for decades. Housed in the former library of the Clubhouse, the Gallery shows artists who have had either commercial success or have been in at least one juried show. A different artist is featured bi-monthly throughout the year. Being an artist is not a requirement for sitting on the Gallery Board. Assistance is given for locating artists interested in showing their work. Each Board member is required to be the sponsor of one artist per year. The Gallery Board meets the first Friday of every month from

10:30-11:30am. 

Come Visit Us! Free and open to the public Tuesday thru Saturday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm and during special events.

Art displayed is available for purchase.

GALLEY 732 ARTISTS:

“Cabinets of Curiosity” and Iceland

The title of the June-July AWCC show, by Akron artist Geraldine Kiefer, is "'Curious and Curiouser'": Cabinets of Curiosity and the Fascination of Iceland." It will comprise original drawings; inscribed maps and engravings; shadow box-framed, hand altered prints; and inscribed illustrations from travel and diaristic books (several of which will be on display).  The originals date from the late 16th through the 19th centuries, and are in Dr. Kiefer’s collection.

A number of shadow boxes will contain actual objects, namely Icelandic spar and Icelandic lava specimens. Dr. Kiefer takes her lead from the AWCC library's design, with multiple shelves in glass-lined cabinets, to show how the exotic shape and feel of Iceland (as mapped by Icelandic clerics, then remapped by northern European geographers) may have drawn inspiration from the exotic object cabinets assembled first, by Dutch wealthy merchant families and later, by the publications of explorers and writers primarily in northern Europe.

Geraldine Kiefer holds the title Professor Emeritus of Art. A native of Akron, she taught art, art history and art appreciation at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia, for 17 years. The Iceland work displayed here derives from her second sabbatical year, 2019-20, with additions and alterations completed in 2025.