Celebrate Earth Month by visiting Bees, Bugs & Butterflies: How Pollinators Help the Cuyahoga Region Bloom, a photography exhibit featuring six local photographers. During various stages of life, our native insects and caterpillars are hard at work supporting our local biome. Get a fascinating look at nature’s essential pollinators!
Through May 3, 2026, you can find the Bees, Bugs & Butterflies exhibit in the Chapel hallway and Room 114. This exhibit is generously funded by the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District; the Akron Community Foundation; Ohio Arts Council; Community Life Collaborative; the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Humanities Center; the National Park Service; and Fairmount Presbyterian Church.
Meet the Photographers!
After Jerry Cannon retired from his career in the telecommunications industry in Akron, he turned his interests toward photography, a long-time area of fascination. Over the last decade, this self-taught photographer has pursued his passion non-stop as a second career, working primarily in Summit Metro Parks. His captivating and diverse mages soon came to the attention of Summit Metro Parks staff, who frequently features Jerry’s work on the Park’s social media pages and other communications.
Jim Roetzel is an Ohio native who has lived in Summit County his entire life. Growing up near Cuyahoga Valley National Park and Summit Metro Parkes, Jim has photographed all over the U.S. and Canada, following nature’s rhythms, migrations, and seasons. His work regularly appears in nation and local publications, including Audubon, Yahoo, Nature Conservancy, Birder’s World, Ducks Unlimited, Little Brown, National Parks, Ohio, Smithsonian and Time-Life.
Danae Wolfe is a macro photographer and conservation educator. She launched her organization, Chasing Bugs, in 2015. She began photographing nature as a young girl, but it wasn’t until her first environmental studies course in college when she fell in love with the natural world and environmental education. Through photography, public speaking and writing, Danae teaches others about the beauty, diversity and importance of insects and spiders, while sharing ways to support these animals in the home landscape. Her career includes serving as a naturalist at Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Cleveland Metroparks and currently with the Ohio Nature Conservancy as Digital Marketing Manager.
Anthony Rodgers was born and raised in Cuyahoga County and has a life-long interest in the natural world. He earned BS in Zoology from The Ohio State University and a Master’s in Education from Cleveland State University. Anthony has expertise in assessing wetlands, surveying snakes and studying beetles around the Cleveland area. Currently he is a high school science teacher in Cleveland where he teaches Conservation Biology.
Denny Reiser is a science and math educator turned renowned nature photographer of Northeast Ohio’s many environmental faces. He taught math and science for 30 years in Bay Village and Aurora, and was a seasonal Ranger for Cuyahoga Valley National Park for 6 years, frequently leading school groups. He has spent more than a decade as a Volunteer Photographer for CVNP, and his work can be viewed throughout the park, in the gift shops, in many publications and online.
Jeffrey Gibson is a retired biology teacher from Revere High School and has photographed extensively in the Cuyahoga River watershed, parks and green spaces. He earned First Place in the Ansel Adams International Photo Contest, and his images have been displayed in the Cleveland Institute of Music, University Hospitals and Cleveland Hopkins Airport. His images were selected by the Akron Symphony Orchestra for a musical tribute to Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and he has published 41 of them in the Park calendar over the last 10 years.
