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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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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Cleveland Print Room Presents The Peer Show

Opening Friday, September 13, CPR is excited to present our fifth annual open-call juried exhibition, The Peer Show, judged this year by Jacob Rhodes, co-founder and curator of Field Projects gallery, NYC; and Aline Smithson, Los Angeles-based artist and educator, and founder and editor-in-chief of the online photography journal, Lenscratch. The exhibition, which will award cash prizes in five categories, […]

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Cleveland Print Room

One of the perks of Cleveland Print Room membership is automatic inclusion in our annual year-end Off The Wall Members Showcase exhibit during the ArtCraft Building annual holiday sale. This salon-style show is always a vibrant explosion of new work by area artists priced to sell during the holidays. Works of all manner of photographic media and subject matter will […]

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Come check out the Cleveland Print Room!

The Cleveland Print Room is excited to present our third annual open-call, juried exhibition, The Peer Show (June 9 – July 1), judged by Massillon Museum Executive Director Alexandra Coon, and University Hospitals Art Curator Tom Huck. The exhibition awards cash prizes in five categories and features works in a variety of photographic media: digital, hand-processed black-and-white, as well as alternative […]

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