Community Arts Center: Creative Table with Kate Shannon

April 10, 2026
Monthly on each second Friday, 5:00–7:00 p.m.

Join us on the second Friday of each month for a laid-back evening of conversation and creativity. Whether you’re a painter, poet, photographer, or just curious, come hang out and share what you’ve been working on! In April Creative Table will feature OSU photographer Kate Shannon.

All mediums are welcomed. The event is an open-discussion forum.

Email commartsinfo@clevelandart.org to reserve your spot.

Kate Shannon is an associate professor in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University and OSU’s 2025–26 Artist Laureate. Her work explores photography’s relationship to memory, materiality, and the digital age. Her artwork has been exhibited widely, and she has received Ohio State Mansfield’s Campus Awards for both Excellence in Scholarship and Excellence in Teaching. In 2024, she presented research on Ohio State’s Floyd and Marion Rinhart Collection of 19th-century American photographs at The Daguerreian Society’s Symposium in Houston, Texas, and is currently working a creative project that reexamines these historical images using contemporary tools. Shannon earned her BFA from the University of Kentucky and her MFA from The Ohio State University. She lives in Hilliard, Ohio, with her husband, children, and cat.