Downtown@Dusk back at Akron Art Museum

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The Akron Art Museum's outdoor summer concert series Downtown@Dusk returns for its 24th annual season.

The concerts will be from July 10 through Sept. 11 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the museum's member parking lot, just south of the museum on High Street.

Also, guests can check out Smells Like Teen Spirit, an exhibition of screen printed D@D band posters created by the museum's teen council.

Parking is free in the High Street municipal garage directly across the street from the entrance of the Akron Art Museum. In case of inclement weather, concerts will take place inside the museum.

Galleries are open until 9 pm. Admission fees apply to the galleries. Concerts are free.

For details, call 330-376-9185 or visit www.AkronArtMuseum.org.

2008 schedule

* July 10 - Wanda Hunt Band, Old School Rhythm & Blues

ArtTalk@Dusk, 7:30-7:45 pm, Charles and Jane Lehner Auditorium, Concept Cars: Automobile Inspired Art, Director of Education, Missy Higgins

* July 17 - Akron Art Museum First Anniversary with The Bluestones, Rhythm & Blues meets Classic Rock

ArtTalk@Dusk, 7:30-7:45 pm, Charles and Jane Lehner Auditorium, Happy Birthday Akron Art Museum: A Year in Review, Akron Art Museum Director and CEO Mitchell Kahan

* July 24 - Carlos Jones and the P.L.U.S. Band, Roots/Reggae

ArtTalk@Dusk, 7:30-7:45 pm, Charles and Jane Lehner Auditorium, Lifestyles of the Rich and Poor: Bill Brandt's England, Director of Curatorial Affairs, Barbara Tannenbaum

* July 31 - Patrick Sweany, Rock/Pop

ArtTalk@Dusk, 7:30 to 7:45 p.m., Charles and Jane Lehner Auditorium, Akron Art Museum, Portrait Demonstration, artist Dino Massaroni

* Aug. 7 - Houseguest, Rock/Pop

ArtTalk@Dusk, 7:30 to 7:45 p.m., The Art of Devo, Charles and Jane Lehner Auditorium, Akron Beacon Journal columnist and Devo biographer David Giffels

* Aug. 14 - 15 60 75 The Numbers Band, Rock/Abstract Blues

ArtTalk@Dusk, 7:30 to 7:45 p.m., Charles and Jane Lehner Auditorium, The Art of the Cover Band, Kent State University Professor Albert Reischuck

* Aug. 21 - The Magpies, Rock/Pop

ArtTalk@Dusk, 7:30 to 7:45 p.m., Charles and Jane Lehner Auditorium, Artists and Avatars: The Burgeoning Art World of "Second Life", Curator of Exhibitions Ellen Rudolph

* Aug. 28 - Horns & Things, Jazz

ArtTalk@Dusk, 7:30 to 7:45 p.m., Charles and Jane Lehner Auditorium, Embracing the New: Recently Acquired Artworks, Akron Art Museum Curatorial Assistant Allison Tillinger Schmid

* Sept. 4 - Hillbilly Idol, Bluegrass

ArtTalk@Dusk, 7:30 to 7:45 p.m., London Street Graffiti and Gilbert George's "Dirty Words", Frank Spicer, Art Historian

* Sept. 11 - The Roberto Ocasio Latin Jazz Project, Salsa

ArtTalk@Dusk, 7:30 to 7:45 p.m., Charles and Jane Lehner Auditorium Akron Art Museum, Paper Cuts: The Photo-collages of John Heartfield, Akron Art Museum Registrar Arnie Tunstall.