Find Art Out in the Wild This Summer

Butch Anthony would be right at home on Jacobs Heritage Farm. The overalls-wearing Alabama artist lives on his family’s 80-acre farmland, hosts a weekly Possum Trot picker auction and runs his Museum of Wonder featuring his taxidermy, art and other oddities. So it’s no surprise his mixed media piece Fall On Your Knees And Pray feels so natural hanging on the whitewashed barn in Copley. “The personality of the artist and the personality of the owner of the farm were quite similar,” says Courtney Cable, coordinator of the Akron Art Museum’s Inside-Out program, which has placed reproductions from the museum’s collection in the community each summer since 2015. This year, 40 artworks can be found in Copley, Ellet, Middlebury, and the West Akron and Sherbondy Hill neighborhoods through October. “He’s all about the recycling of artwork or materials,” says Chris Ross, a preparator and curator for Anthony’s work at the Akron Art Museum. “He’s giving a voice to these pieces.” 2196 Jacoby Road, Copley, 330-376-9185, akronartmuseum.org