Guidelines for Art Exhibits and Displays (.pdf)
About
The Watson-Ewell-Currin Community Art Gallery is open to the public during regular library hours. This
gallery represents, and is named for, four generations of artists, all from the same family. It is named for a family of artists that started in Chicago, and is continued in Hudson, Ohio. It has been endowed in hopes that it will provide a display area for Hudson artists of all ages, from the very young to those veterans in the field.
The Hudson Library & Historical Society welcomes and encourages local artists and students to display their work at the library. Please view the gallery brochure for more information about the history of the names above the door.
For more information, contact E. Leslie Polott, Executive Director/Curator, at leslie.polott@hudson.lib.oh.us or call the library at 330-653-6658.
Now on Display
Cathy Welner
Cathy Welner was born in Syracuse, New York. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in education from the State University of New York at Cortland and continued graduate courses in art at The University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. She approached her art interests by taking lessons from experienced artists locally in NE Ohio, where she had come to reside, and workshops around the country.
She benefited greatly from the diverse techniques of these teachers. Some of her mentors were Lowell Ellsworth Smith, AWS: Fred Leach, DF, AWS; Alvaro Castagnet, AWS; Charles Reid; and Richard Schmid. As time evolved, she ultimately found her own pathway, which persists to this day.
Cathy has been teaching watercolor for over 50 years. She has served on the faculty of the Department of Continuing Education at the Cleveland Institute of Art and has taught classes and workshops nationally and internationally, including several in Lake Como, Italy.
She has won many awards and has been in numerous juried exhibitions, including the American Watercolor Society International Art Exhibition, Ohio Watercolor Society Annual Exhibition, and The Butler Institute of Art mid-year show. She won the 2020 Gold Medal for the Ohio Watercolor Society 43rd juried exhibition.
Additionally, she is a signature member of AWS and OWS, and a lifetime member of the Whiskey Painters of America. In 2025, she was honored with the Ohio Watercolor Society Jim Brower Lifetime Achievement Award.
Her art has been featured in Watercolor Artist magazine and Artists and Illustrators magazine in the U.K., as well as galleries in New York, Colorado, Maine, and Ohio. Her work hangs in hundreds of private and corporate collections.
