In the middle of the perfect storm that is the COVID crisis and the reckoning with our history of racism, a number of Cleveland art organizations are facing a crisis of another kind: No less than seven important Northeast Ohio, nonprofit visual arts institutions have recently seen their executive directors resign. Most have appointed interim directors. All of them confront […]
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When artist Kill Joy arrived in Cleveland from Mexico City in February for her two-month residency, it was snowing. To cope with the frigid weather, the first works she started carving at Zygote were images of the hottest natural substance on Earth: lava from volcanic eruptions. The series, featuring volcano sites she has visited, takes on quite a different meaning […]
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In this installment of CAN’s Art from a Distance series, take an eerily silent tour of Genius Loci _toward understanding of place, at Zygote Press. The exhibit features works of Boston-native, Pittsburgh-based Tressa Jones and Arron Foster, who is currently visiting professor of printmaking at Ohio University. As the curators say in a statement, “Place carries the markings of time […]
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Five years ago, Zygote Press made transitioning to an environmentally friendly studio a priority. Key to making this change work was ensuring that all printmaking processes would still be available, and the resulting prints would be as good or better than using the traditional toxic chemistry. Since then, through research and innovation, Zygote has evolved into a green shop. Eliminating […]
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For over twenty years, Zygote has been a pioneer in artist residencies. Nearly 200 artists have traveled the world…and brought the world to Cleveland. Zygote Press’ residencies are made possible by support from: The Ohio Arts Council, Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, The Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Martha […]
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The current show at Zygote Press, “Capturing the Aura of the Already Said” was curated by Boston-based artist and professor, Margaret Hart. Featuring the work of herself and three other artists, I realized as I looked at the names that none of them were familiar, including hers. Happy to learn that they are all “out-of-towners”, I was excited to see […]
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Whether you are a ceramicist, painter, designer, or printmaker, your process is your craft—the ability to create, to bring ideas to light. At Zygote Press, we are a shop of printmaking artists. Every artist who walks through our door has developed their own unique process of making, but we share the medium and space with one another in an ecosystem […]
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I am a visual artist working with letterpress printing, language and geography. My work often considers how experience of place can be represented. As such, residencies have become a vital part of my practice and I was honoured to be selected as 2018 summer artist-in-residence at Zygote Press. In 2017 I began a series of text landscape prints and it […]
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Once books were simply vehicles, carrying the information they contained. For centuries, they were the most efficient way to traffic in words and pictures. In these digital days they still do that, but they have other functions, too: They are monuments to those ideas, celebrations, commemorations, and elaborations on them. They are a way not just to pass words and […]
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After a steamy Cleveland summer of local, national, and international art and Zygote artists exhibiting in both FRONT International and the CAN Triennial, we are ready to shift into a cooler fall season with a sustained focus on both the local and the global arts through artist residencies and their culminative exhibitions. This fall, Zygote is thrilled to welcome five […]
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