Cleveland Print Room has been building our online, remote-learning offerings for students since going into shutdown mode this past March. Our Mimicking the Masters series features short videos on ten photographers from Teenie Harris and Lorna Simpson to William Eggleston and Sophie Calle, presented in partnership with Tri-C’s Creative Arts Academy. Teen Institute youth are engaged in weekly CPR Photobox […]
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In 1977, two photographers set themselves a challenge: Take pictures of Miami Beach’s Jewish retirement community residents every day for ten years. The photographers were named Andy Sweet and Gary Monroe. They called their undertaking simply “The Miami Beach Project.” Tragically, five years into the project, Sweet was murdered in his own apartment during a home invasion. At the time […]
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Just when his work was gaining a following, street and documentary photographer Andy Sweet’s sudden death in 1982 diverted attention from his art, which celebrated the South Beach, Florida, of the late 1970s. March 13 will see the Cleveland debut of Sweet’s rediscovered work in the exhibition Shtetl in the Sun, turning an eye to the pastel-hued environs and lively culture of the […]
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One of the perks of Cleveland Print Room membership is automatic inclusion in our annual year-end Off the Wall Members Showcase exhibit during the ArtCraft Building annual Holiday Sale. This salon-style show is always a vibrant explosion of new work by area artists priced to sell during the holidays. Works of all manner of photographic media and subject matter will […]
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It’s true with voices in a duet, with food on a plate, and certainly in a two-person exhibit: When two things are presented together, the way they relate (or don’t) is a make-or-break factor. Cleveland Print Room makes good on this front with Rebekah Ann Wilhelm and Steven Mastroianni’s exhibit, Lines and Shadows, on view November 8 – 30. The […]
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Opening Friday, September 13, CPR is excited to present our fifth annual open-call juried exhibition, The Peer Show, judged this year by Jacob Rhodes, co-founder and curator of Field Projects gallery, NYC; and Aline Smithson, Los Angeles-based artist and educator, and founder and editor-in-chief of the online photography journal, Lenscratch. The exhibition, which will award cash prizes in five categories, […]
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The photo exhibit A Collection of Stories, which was up at the Cleveland Print Room May 31-June 14, was divided into 7 titled sections. You could say it was like looking at the subject from seven different angles, in a Wallace Stevens, “Thirteen-Ways-Of-Looking-At-A-Blackbird” kind of way: the content and intention of each section were unified, but distinct, like seven […]
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ARTISTS: Michael Tsegaye | Ethiopia Sophie Schwartz | Cleveland & New York Sharon Day | Minnesota CPR Teen Institute | Cleveland ORGANIZATION: Cleveland Print Room Four CPR projects will deliver the Cuyahoga from fresh points of view. A quartet of programs from the Cleveland Print Room for the Creative Fusion 2019 Waterways to Waterways edition will put the […]
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We are busier than ever this summer at the Cleveland Print Room, with an array of projects focused on our region’s complex relationship with the Cuyahoga River. We are excited to be facilitating four projects for the Waterways to Waterways Creative Fusion initiative this June. A Sacred Water Walk led by Ojibwe elder Sharon Day, from June 17 to 20, […]
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In today’s times, everyone with a phone has a camera and for that reason, many consider themselves photographers. Then there are those who use cameras, preferring them to cell phones for capturing images. Many camera users are professional photographers who utilize expensive camera bodies and expensive glass, taking their craft seriously enough to take advantage of the latest technology to […]
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