Cleveland Print Room Inaugurates Invitational Residencies

  The Cleveland Print Room is pleased to welcome artists Sam Carpenter, Mary Defer and Rich Stroffolino as recipients of the inaugural CPR Invitational Residencies. This artist-in-residence program is for traditional film and alternative process photographers. The inaugural cohort will benefit these three Cleveland-based emerging artists with access to our facilities, technical and critical support, and a stipend. This new […]

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Cleveland Print Room Presents Peer Show Winners

  The Cleveland Print Room presents Dead Wax & Distant Transmissions, featuring 2020 Print Room Peer Show award winners Ilenia Pezzaniti and Christine Zuercher. Ilenia Pezzaniti, a multidisciplinary artist, describes her work in this show as a view into her subjects’ lives during quarantine. “In May of 2020, three months into the lockdown, I gave twelve people living alone one […]

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No Woman is an Island

This June, we are excited to present No Woman Is An Island: Works by Da’Shaunae Marisa Jackson. Jackson, a Cleveland Foundation Minority Arts and Education Fund grant recipient, was a fellow at the Cleveland Print Room in 2020. This exhibition will be featured on our website beginning Friday, June 4, and in our gallery with scheduled visits available starting Saturday, […]

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Cleveland Print Room Mourns and Looks Ahead

It is with profound sadness that we announce the sudden death of our great friend, John W. Carlson. John, an artist, musician, garbageman, storyteller, writer, philosopher, teacher, and mentor, was also the beloved partner of and artistic collaborator with Shari Wilkins, founder and strategic director of the Cleveland Print Room. We grieve the absence of John’s wicked sense of humor […]

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Cleveland Print Room: Virtually, or In-Person, by Appointment

As the pandemic rages into the colder months of the year, Cleveland Print Room is likewise continuing to rage in our efforts to keep bringing the finest in photographic art to our community, both virtually and by appointment for socially-distanced, COVID-responsible in-person viewings. To that end, we are excited this season to be presenting El Sueño Americano–The American Dream: Photographs […]

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Mimicking the Masters, and more at Cleveland Print Room

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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From Eden to the nations to Miami: “Shtetl in the Sun” at the Cleveland Print Room

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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CPR premieres works of Andy Sweet

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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