Annual Member Show

Each year, the Arts Council welcomes our member artists to submit work to our Member Show, held during the month of December. We fill the Taplin Gallery with artwork produced by more than 100 artists on view for our community to enjoy, including drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics, and more.

2025 Theme: Do You Have a Third Place? 

Where do you go when you’re itching to leave the house but don’t need to go to work or class? Maybe it’s a café, bar, art club, dog park, library, gym, bookstore, or even a place to which you travel in your mind. 

Some of these spots can be described as “third places”. Sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined this term to describe places outside of the home (the “first place”) and the workplace (the “second place”), where folks go to converse with others and connect with their community. In these cases, no one is obligated to be there and are often free or affordable. In other words, they’re our happy places. 

These spaces serve us well and we come back time and time again. Here at the Arts Council, we get it. We see repeat students, familiar faces at gallery openings, people who come out every week to draw, paint, print, chat, and it lets us know we’re doing something right. 

So for this year’s Annual Member Show, we invite you to capture what you call sanctuary, comfort, zen — whether it’s a physical place or somewhere abstract to which you travel in your mind — and show it off in our Taplin Gallery. And if you’re lacking a third place, get an ACP membership today and find your bliss.