There is a clearing inside a nondescript brick building on the corner of Perkins Avenue and East 40th Street in downtown Cleveland. It is not a grassy clearing that you might find in nature surrounded by trees, but a metaphorical “clearing” in the gallery space of Zygote Press. The exhibition, A Clearing: Word, Image, Body, takes “inspiration from the notion […]
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The studio doesn’t begin or end with a season. It keeps its own time. This fall, Zygote welcomes artists of every experience level into the studio. Claudio Orso leads a woodcut workshop exploring the fundamentals of relief carving and printing. RA Washington comes onboard to debut an immersive poetry and letterpress intensive—open to new writers, or printmakers who would like […]
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For the past four years, Zygote Press has hosted an annual June fundraiser celebrating the summer solstice while supporting affordable, accessible opportunities for local artists. The event draws art enthusiasts from across Northeast Ohio, many arriving in vibrant seasonal attire to enjoy food from Cleveland Field Kitchen, music by DJ NicNacc, and a live auction featuring one-of-a-kind works. With limited […]
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Zygote Press–Cleveland’s community access, fine art printmaking co-op–not only has a spacious new home, but is moving into it with remarkable speed. Just six weeks (plus a few days) after a champagne toast celebrating the February 24 closure of the deal, executive director Jackie Feldman and crew have moved their extensive (and growing) collection of very heavy printmaking stuff into […]
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“There is a difference between speaking about and speaking nearby.” — Trinh T. Minh-ha“I’m interested in what happens when language fails.”– Glenn Ligon TONIC unfolds as a condition rather than a conclusion. Presented by Zygote Press, the exhibition brings together the 2025 PROOF Fellowship cohort: six Northeast Ohio artists engaging printmaking as a site of encounter, recalibration, and pressure. Print […]
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Pressing Matters (PM) is a free afterschool program for Cleveland area teens that introduces students to printmaking as a tool for expression, interpretation, activism and self-advocacy. Founded in 2022 by Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) professor Dr. Erin Benay, Pressing Matters utilizes an interdisciplinary curriculum that brings history to life for young Clevelanders through the experiential practice of printmaking. Since […]
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Since their inception, zines have been an important—and fun—way to communicate and spread information. Emerging in the 1930s among sci-fi fans, zines have been around for almost a century. The term “zine,” first used in 1946, comes from the word “fanzine,” a combination of “fan” and “magazine,” that was first used in 1942. In 1944, the first Xerox machine was […]
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The Cleveland poet d.a. levy (Darryl Alfred Levey, 1942-1968) was among the most prolific publishing poets of the mimeo revolution of the 1960s, which evolved into what is now called underground or outlaw poetry: small presses independent of the Academy. Of less renown yet as fascinating as his publications are levy’s prints and the methods he used to make them. […]
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If we don’t recognize our ancestors, we don’t know who we are. Stories and histories are the anchors of resilience in a turbulent river that can feel like a whirlpool. In Queer Histories, a collaborative exhibit between the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland and Zygote Press, tributes to and calls to action from the queer community resonate through the […]
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Bringing art to everyone by breaking down barriers is at the core of Zygote’s mission. The Affordable Print Fair: Collecting 101 centers that mission by creating opportunities for emerging artists to exhibit their work, and by offering new collectors an affordable way to acquire art. “This exhibition and the accompanying free, public programs will demonstrate that print collecting is not […]
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