Founders:

Liz Maugans
Kelly Novak
Bellamy Printz
Joe Sroka

Board:

Bellamy Printz, President
Paula Mindes, Treasurer
Noel Reifel, Secretary
Bruce Ackerman
Ben Campbell
Joanne Cohen
Bruce Edwards
Andrea Joki
Sarah Kabot
Todd Masuda

Staff:

Liz Maugans, Executive Director

Liz Maugans is a co-founder and Managing Director of Zygote Press, Inc.  She received her BFA in printmaking from Kent State University and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1992.  She teaches printmaking and drawing at Cleveland Institute of Art and Lorain County Community College.  She is included in the collections of the BF Goodrich(Charlotte, N.C.) and  The Riffe Center for Government and the Arts, (Columbus, OH).  She received an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship in 2000.  She received a 2005 Artist-in-Communities Grant from the Ohio Arts Council for her “Drawing It Out” program, that introduces creative experiences for women (reentering the community from the criminal justice system) in chemical dependency programs towards their recovery. 

Jen Craun, Associate Director

Jen Craun received her Bachelor’s degree in Art Education from Kent State University in 2000. She spent a semester in Italy, and traveled to the major European cities, with the KSU and Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative.  Following her return, she became a Graduate Teaching Assistant at KSU, in the Printmaking Department, and completed her MFA in 2003.  In 2004, she was awarded an artist in residency to Dresden, Germany through the Ohio Arts Council.  She is currently the Associate Director of Zygote Press, and teaching part time at Lake Erie College.  She enjoys teaching as an artist resident annually for ArtHouse, a nonprofit program that connects artists to Cleveland Public schools, and assisted in pioneering their printmaking program. She works primarily in etching and wood intaglio, collage and letterpress.