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Our second floor galleries showcase our permanent collection. Only 10% of our collection of over 100,000 objects are ever on display at one time. That is why we rotate exhibits every 3 months, 6 months, or 1 year so that visitors can always see something new!
Our galleries include the Paul L. David Sports Gallery, the Middle Gallery, the Back Gallery, and the Immel Circus.
Laurie Addis: Contemporary Weavings Inspired by the Massillon Museum's Kashmir Shawl
Laurie Addis' work for this show is based on a shawl in the permanent collection of the Massillon Museum.
Laurie Addis is a painter and weaver. Her interests are in digital Jacquard weaving and the process of subverting making by repetition. In her current work, fragments of flower imagery, re-workings of Weaver's Guild designs, non-repeating mathematical systems and systematic dyeing errors are literally woven into an optical mix.
Laurie was born in Northern Ireland. After graduation from Queens University Belfast with a degree in English, she relocated to England to work for several years as an archaeological ceramics researcher and illustrator at Durham University. She was awarded a B.A. (Hons.) painting, Newcastle polytechnic, 1983, and a M.A. painting, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, 1986. Laurie relocated to the United States in 1990s. She held the full-time Visiting Artist position at Syracuse University, New York, from 1991-2, returning to England to teach painting full-time at Bradford College of Art and Design, 1992-6. She has also lived and worked in St. Louis, MO, and Newark, NJ before moving to Kent, OH, where she took the opportunity to study weaving with Janice Lessman-Moss. Laurie Addis's weavings have been exhibited in the U.S and in Europe. Her first solo exhibit of textiles was at Gallery 138, Kent, in 2003. In 2005 she participated in Northern Fiber 6: (wo)man & technology, at Kerava Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland, and The CAT show: Computer Aided Textiles at Hillsdale College, Michigan. She currently teaches drawing part-time at Kent State University, Ohio.
Paisley: Exploding the Teardrop
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The materials on display in the Sports Gallery relating to Paul Brown
have come to us on loan from the Massillon Tiger Football Museum. They
were recently donated to the Massillon Tiger Football Museum by Mary Brown,
Paul Brown’s widow. Their exhibition in the Massillon Museum
is the first time these materials have ever been displayed. The
small-scale exhibit serves as a glimpse into the personal life and career
of legendary coach Paul Brown. On display are some of his coats,
childhood photographs, and even one of his signature hats that characterized
him in later years. 
Mrs. Rohr, a former Emerson Elementary School cook, donated her
collection to the Massillon Museum in 1988. Margy Vogt, who was
the Museum's registrar at that time, remembers that Mrs. Rohr's dining
room was surrounded by glass cabinets filled with the shakers. "She
toured us through the house, telling us stories about many of the sets...where
she found them, who gave them to her, why they were special." Four
years later the Museum exhibited a large portion of the collection.