On Friday, October 17, 2025, LOOP Youngstown invited residents of the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys to participate in a community-wide creative project. Throughout this single day, participants captured the spirit of our region—its people, places, and everyday stories—through photography, video, writing, or other art forms.

 

The response truly knocked our socks off! Thank you to everyone who participated. And thank you to our curators, Autumn Joi Ellis, Tony Nicholas, Thomas Welsh, and Stephen Poullas, for their thoughtful and dedicated work on this project. After blind-judging the submissions, they have chosen 55 works for the permanent online gallery.