Monthly Meetings

General Membership Meetings are held on the 4th Monday of each month from September to May at the Root Candle Community Room in Medina, Ohio. Visitors are always welcome. Please check our home page for meeting information and links.

Meetings begin at 7:00 pm with general business followed by refreshments. A speaker, chosen from the art community then presents a short message of inspiration or sometimes even a demo.

Join us on the fourth Monday of each month EXCEPT the May and March meetings which are the third Monday, and December in which there is no meeting due to the holidays.

Upcoming & Recent Events

October 2026 – Mary Graham Eagle White

Our October 28 MCAL presenter is Mary White, who we were fortunate to have as a juror for Aquarius a couple years ago. Mary will be showing us some of her award winning oil paintings, which have recently been accepted and shown at the Butler Midyear Show, Cuyahoga Valley Art Center, Door 2 Gallery, and the Paul and Norma Tikkanen Arts Prize Award Exhibition, among several others. A signature member of the Akron Society of Artists, she is also a furniture painter and works in

September 2026 – John Sargent

John A Sargent Ill has been making his living as a Fine Artist since graduating from Ohio State University with an MFA. He currently Teaches painting at the Orange Art Center in Ohio. He also serves on the board and chairs the Gallery Committee at the AAWR in Cleveland Ohio. His paintings and portraits can be found in private and corporate collections nationally and internationally.

May 2026 – Cara Romano

May 18, 7:00 PM at the Root Candle Community Room 640 W. Liberty St., Medina, OH 44256 Through layered compositions in watercolor, ink, and oil, Cleveland-based artist Cara Romano explores the fleeting interplay of sunlight and shadow. Rooted in a decades-long practice, her work blends abstraction with delicate detail, creating meditative, time-based images that honor both the cosmic and the everyday. For more info; here's a recent article from CAN journal about her upcoming

Full 2026–2027 Timetable

Month	Speaker	Description	Date
September	John Sargent	Oil Painter	09/28/2026
October	Mary White	Oil Painter	10/26/2026
November	Bob Putka	Acrylic Painter	11/23/2026
January		Show and Tell	01/25/2027
February	Josh Chevitz	Mixed Media	02/22/2027
March	Tom Schemrich	Wood Carver	03/29/2027
April	Dave Derrig and Matt Shiarla	Wadsworth art teachers, frequent scholarship winning students	04/26/2027
May	Bruce Stebner	Intimist Style Oil Painter	05/24/2027