WE ARE PROUD TO SUPPORT LOCAL ART

The Mustard Seed is a proud supporter of local arts. In our Highland Square Cafe we exhibit local, original artwork that rotates every three months. If you’re interested in exhibiting your work, please click here!

Now on Display

In the Highland Square Cafe

Mason Major

Mason Major

Mason Major is an amateur photographer from Akron, OH. He originally found interest in photography through camping trips with friends out west. This helped rekindle a deep passion and love for the natural world, which he tries to capture as accurately as possible through the lens. He has particular fondness for birds, mountain views, and the Pacific Northwest.

Megan Hurley

Megan Hurley

My name is Megan and I invite you to explore a realm where elevated aesthetics meet authentic creativity. Each compistion is not merely a decoration but a celebration of the art process itself, designed to inspire you with the beauty found in unlikely, gestural movements with both playfulness + drama. I would not be here without many seasons of growth, success, and failure. Now, I’m creating for myself through my lens; raw + honest. I absorb inspiration from the energy of the early morning light, music, fashion, and found objects. I pay close attention to synchronicity and visual ques the universe delivers. Thank you for being here.

David Pratt

David Pratt

I make art with a variety of media, exploring themes related to our belief in separation and the fact that on an essential level, there is no separation. I aim to cultivate balance in myself and viewers of my art – a lifelong direction. A lot of my work is simply intended to nurture vitality, and sometimes to shake up our ideas and assumptions. I have been creating visual art for most of the 55 years I have been on the planet, and I favor using natural pigments, paints and inks, but also enjoy bringing digital work into relationship with these more earthy media too. In the past several years, I have had multiple solo shows and have exhibited in numerous art festivals in an effort to share what I do with more people. Each year, more of my work finds its way into people’s homes, and I am profoundly grateful for this. If you like what I do, you can see more on my website.

Keesha Wallace

Keesha Wallace

*Urban Art Virtuoso* In the realm where rhythm reigns and color explodes, my art ignites! As a visual and performing artist, I orchestrate a symphony of sound and sight, merging music, graffiti and culture in electrifying masterpieces that pulse with the city’s heartbeat. With every brushstroke, I weave tales of urban resilience and creative rebellion. My art is an immersive experience – a harmony of bold hues, rhythmic textures and soulful energy.
KATLIN SHAE

KATLIN SHAE

Materiality and process are vital to Katlin Shae’s studio practice. Through physical labor, pattern, transformation of materials, and color Shae examines time and life using craft disciplines. Often creating within the systems and structures provided by looms, she is excited by the complexities and possibilities that exist in the grid format. Shae’s studio practice also incorporates drawing, and creative daily work with mark making and material investigation. In this new series of 14 drawings, there is an emphasis on color, shape, line, and pattern. The drawings tend to start at a central point with each new line being shaped by the last creating a ripple effect within the work. The pieces are untitled, but each one is numbered in the order the artist made them. By starting with piece number 1, you can follow the progression of these drawings through number 14, each completed piece expanding on the possibilities for the next one.

Christian James

Christian James

Impacted by the beauty of the natural world, especially the ocean, Christian James creates sculptural glass creatures that mimic shapes from nature. Some of the forms he often uses are snails, jellyfish, and occasionally a combination of both. Growing up in Highland Square Christian studied art at the Visual and Performing Arts Schools Miller South and Firestone. This is where his love for art began. After graduating high school Christian attended Kent State University to study glassblowing. His interest in glass started at a young age with the influence of his uncle, who is a professional glassblower. Christian worked full time with his uncle at Janke Studios, a production glass shop located in Atlanta Georgia for 7 years. During this time Christian learned from Matt Janke in an apprenticeship style of mentoring to refine his skills and technical proficiency in the process of glassblowing. Returning to Akron in 2018, Christian now makes his work at Akron Glass Works, where he is the current manager of their studio. Christian James will be taking Akron Glass Works into their next phase by establishing their studio at a new location in the West Hill neighborhood of Akron opening Summer 2026. You can visit the current Akron Glass Works gallery and retail space to see the large variety of work he makes including pendant lighting, goblets, hot sculpted glass chess sets, and more.

Gary Bagnato

Gary Bagnato

So when I pick up a brush I think of it as a religiously spiritual experience.  Paints become the vehicle and become alive with spiritual essence.  And because I create in this kind of spiritual primitive way.  My style is unique and has a mystery to it.  Because my paintings start with heart and soul.  They will never be put in a box.  They will continue to go in that direction I choose.  For this is how true creation was meant to be.
Bob Pozarski

Bob Pozarski

Bob Pozarski is a short, thick old man with green eyes. After graduating from KSU in 1975, he opened a stained glass shop near Akron U. He’s made art glass for the area for forty four years. Always learning new glass making techniques, he makes kiln cast and fused glass, hand beveled and blown glass. He teaches beginning and advanced glass blowing. Sun, Rain, and Gardens For my display at the Mustard Seed Cafe I’ve made new windows featuring our weather blessings that make the vegetables grow.
Sun and rain, earth and water are represented not very realistically. My focus is more on the glass as an art/ craft material; learning ancient techniques and using them in new ways to expand the stained glass vocabulary.
I may take flat pieces of stained glass and fuse them together in a kiln, take that to the hot shop and blow it into a bubble, spin that bubble out into flat glass again, then grind and polish prism edges on it. The leaded panels are a device to hold that piece of shiny glass up to the light. That’s all.

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