Double Loop at the Cleveland Clinic Raises Important Points about Medical Waste

The chance meeting of Sarah Kabot and Marianne Desmarais at Cranbrook might have been a lark. What emerged was a decades-long collaboration. Marianne Desmarais answered a classified ad that Sarah Kabot had placed in the fall of their first year together at the graduate-only Cranbrook Academy of Art. It seemed like a bizarre request. “I was looking to invade someone’s […]

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Creative Fusion Outcomes: To Tijuana and Back, and Forth

Artist Corrie Slawson and writer Marc Lefkowitz met Tijuana (via Beijing) artists Daniel Ruanova and Mely Barragan when they were Spring 2013 Creative Fusion residents at Zygote Press. The four participated in the Rooms to Let project in Columbus, exploring  pre-conceived notions attached to places, especially those that have had infamous moments in their past. After their time at Zygote, […]

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Zygote Operation Green

The artists who run Zygote Press had an “a-ha” moment in 2013, when they decided it was time to lock away mineral spirits, glaze cleaner, lithotine, and other toxic tools of the print trade, and replace them with canola oil, vinegar, water and tallow. Now, supported by a grant from the George Gund Foundation, Ohio’s largest artist-run print shop is […]

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