2024 Featured Artists

This year's Towpath Trail Lantern Parade will feature illuminated art by:

Rabbit Hole Art Fanatics

The Rabbit Hole Art Fanatics is a collaborative of three friends, Jane Baum, Bob Bucklew and Chris Rander, who share the challenges and enjoyment of creating art together.  Formed in 2013, they have created public art for the annual Tremont Arts & Cultural Festival and have focused on creating art that is big and bright, made from secondhand materials when possible and able to withstand various types of Cleveland weather.

Suhaylah The Artist

Suhaylah The Artist is a self-taught, soul-guided artist who uses her talents as a means of therapeutic outlet through all types of mixed-media. Suhaylah’s creations push the threshold of societal acceptability and borderlines on radicalism. While her pieces are grounded in the foundation of Black Militancy and Divinity, Suhaylah still loves to display light-hearted, afro-futuristic aesthetics that accentuate the many other aspects of her character. These pieces are vessels to her identity, inviting her audience to explore her journey to higher understanding.

Dina Hoeynck

Dina Hoeynck is a Shaker Heights-based artist working in printmaking and social practice disciplines. She has a B.F.A. in Printmaking and Drawing from Washington University in Saint Louis, and an M.A. in Art Education from Case Western Reserve University. Her current practice is grounded in community-based mixed media and installation work; she especially delights in using her background as an art educator to activate collaborative and interactive spaces. Past projects include large-scale site specific installations at Rooms to Let and IngenuityFest.

Jacob Liptow

Jacob Liptow is an architectural designer in Northeast Ohio. He attended Kent State University’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design, while studying scenic design, art, and music. His work includes two-dimensional collage work, digital art, sculpture, and installations. Jacob is actively involved in community art initiatives, including Rooms to Let, Ingenuity Fest, Border-light Fringe Festival, and others. His work is inspired by architectural forms and structural systems. He aims to create surreal and immersive works through the manipulation and regeneration of elements.

Shannon Timura

Shannon Timura is a mixed media artist who transforms scraps, old hardware, wood and other discards into whimsical characters from nature. She sees beauty in brokenness and loves sharing her passion for making things from nothing. Shannon works as a teacher providing places where kids and adults have the opportunity to explore, experiment and create. She is a public artist who has created murals and sculptures for businesses, brands and cities and is listed on the Ohio Teaching Artist Roster.

Linda McConaughy

Linda McConaughy is a visual artist who recently took up quilt making. After moving to Ohio, Linda became enamored with the colorful piles of discarded plastic grocery bags she found in relatives’ garages, and has been inspired to take a traditional Amish quilt pattern combined with a nontraditional material to create commentary on the modern world. Her work has been exhibited locally at The Artist Archives of the Western Reserve. She is a recipient of a 2023 Ohio Arts Council Award of Excellence.

Susie Underwood

Susie Underwood is a mixed media installation and performance artist who makes all kinds of art and has a special passion for upcycled art. She has previously taught an upcycled art series at the Cleveland Museum of Art's Community Arts Center, and she often incorporates lighting into installations. Her previous work includes a chandelier made entirely out of plastic water bottles and bubble wrap.