You may have seen the term RISO or Risograph lately and thought to yourself, “what on Earth is that?” What was once a very niche form of printing has become the darling of the zine-making and small press publishing world, and is so mainstream that graphic designers can even purchase RISO-effect filters for Photoshop. Put simply, a RISO or Risograph […]
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This fall the Waterloo Arts Gallery and Cafe will feature Familiar Strangers, highlighting work by local artists Cullen Houser, Josh Luboski and Will Wilson. This group exhibition presents a collection of figurative pieces, and each explores the absurdity of the characters and the worlds in which they exist. Including paintings, prints, and illustration, Familiar Strangers showcases the ways in which […]
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This summer the Waterloo Arts Gallery and Cafe will feature the work of ten local artists in a group show, curated by Davon Brantley, titled Blooming Tides. From the curator: “This exhibition features Black, AAPI and Latinx Artists and is intended to explore the interconnection, influence and/or impact of their cultures amongst each other through various media. This exhibition allows […]
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This spring, the Waterloo Arts Gallery and Cafe will feature the work of two local printmakers: Zoe Brester-Pennings and Meryl Engler. In the Main Gallery, Zoe Brester-Pennings will be presenting Buck Soft, the third chapter of her Buck Wilde series of works. Combining elements of printmaking, found object, and the tactility of quilting, this exhibition presents a series of quilted […]
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To start the new year, the Waterloo Arts Gallery and Cafe will feature the work of Dana Lynn Harper and Brian Fencl in January. Dana Lynn Harper is a mixed media artist based in Columbus, Ohio. In Veiled Histories, Harper combines the evocative and tactile textures of paper clay, velvet, rice, pearls, dried flowers, and masses of glass beads to […]
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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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As part of the 2025 Pride Celebration, Zygote Press is presenting PINK INK: The Third Biannual Queer Print + Zine Fair. We are thrilled to be partnering with the LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland for the first time. This outdoor vendors’ market features artists who specialize in printmaking, book and zine-making, as well as other paper goods. Zygote Press holds […]
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Eileen Dorsey is on a mission. For someone who has spent the last ten years painting trees, it is perhaps not surprising that she is also planting, caring for, and advocating for them. When the Cleveland Botanical Garden reached out to ask the artist to show some of her work, Dorsey decided to use this platform to bring notice to […]
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FRONT TRIENNIAL ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PREM KRISHNAMURTHY AND CURATOR ANNIE WISCHMEYER TALK ABOUT CURATION DURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC Brittany Mariel Hudak recently sat down with Prem Krishnamurthy and Annie Wischmeyer in the Ames Family Atrium of the Cleveland Museum of Art to discuss their curatorial strategies, inspirations, and what we can expect for FRONT 2022. Their team had just held a […]
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The thirty works currently on view in the James and Hanna Bartlett Prints and Drawings Gallery are all by women, which is surprisingly a first for the Cleveland Museum of Art. Not that they haven’t shown the work of women printmakers before—there was a 2002-2003 exhibition of Elizabeth Catlett’s prints and sculpture, although of course that’s an entirely different kind […]
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