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Works in Progress (WIP) is a new program at Zygote Press for 2008-2009 for practicing artists
to present and discuss their work, and to benefit from exchange with other artists and arts
professionals in an open and productive forum. The program will culminate in a two-day
symposium and exhibition in June ‘09. The symposium, “Practical Information for Professional
Artists,” will feature a series of presentations which include but are not limited to: residency
programs and experiences; artist web development; finding funding; hands-on art workshops,
and approaching galleries. Speakers will include artists from the Northeast Ohio area as well
as gallerists, curators, critics and art professionals from Cuyahoga County. WIP has been
partially funded through a grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.
Sunday, August 16th, 2008
Douglas Max Utter was educated in part at Case-Western Reserve University and has taught painting and drawing courses at the University of Akron, Kent State University, and the Cleveland Institute of Art. In addition to an accomplished career in painting and printmaking, he is an award-winning critic and essayist for many regional and national publications. He currently is the resident art critic for Cleveland Scene. Douglas Max Utter is the author of more than three hundred articles, reviews, catalogue essays and introductory essays, published by Art Papers (Atlanta), New Art Examiner (Chicago), Dialogue (Columbus), Angle (Cleveland), The Plain Dealer, the Free Times (Cleveland), Ceramics Monthly, Fiber Arts, Northern Ohio Live, Kent State University Press, MOCA Cleveland, the McDonough Museum, and various galleries.
Sunday, November 16th , 2008
Paola Morsiani is Curator of Contemporary Art at The Cleveland Museum of Art. Until December 2007 and since April 1999, she was Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Morsiani received her Laurea in art history and history of criticism from the University of Padua in Italy, and an MA in Arts Administration from New York University. She is a 2008 fellow of the Curatorial Leadership Program, New York. Prior to joining the Contemporary Arts Museum, she worked at the Drawing Center and at the Queens Museum in New York, and in Pittsburgh, PA, at the Carnegie Museum of Art. She independently curated shows in Italy, for PS122 Gallery, New York, and Art & Idea, Mexico City, among others institutions. Morsiani has also contributed critical essays to numerous exhibition catalogues and journals on artists such as Inka Essenhigh, Nader Ahriman, Adrian Paci, and Matthew Sontheimer, and on contemporary video and film.
Morsiani has curated a number of internationally acclaimed exhibitions at the CAMH, including Wishing for Synchronicity: Works by Pipilotti Rist (2006), Andrea Zittel: Critical Space (2005, co-organized with the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York), Fade In: New Film and Video (2004), When 1 is 2: The Art of Alighiero e Boetti (2002), and Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art (2001). Among other projects, Morsiani is currently working on the reinstallation of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s collection of contemporary art, in the Museum’s new East Wing, which will open to the public in June 2009.
Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Ellen Rudolph is Curator of Exhibitions at the Akron Art Museum, bringing with her a diverse set of skills and a strong commitment to community interaction. Rudolph coordinates the museum's traveling exhibition schedule and originates new exhibitions for the museum. She received her Master of Arts degree from Case Western Reserve University and was formerly the Assistant Curator of the Progressive Corporation's art collection. In addition, she has worked as an independent curator and manager of private collections in the Cleveland area as well as working at Sotheby's in New York. Among other exhibitions in the Cleveland area, Rudolph organized and curated the NEO+ONE exhibition in 2005 as a response to the Cleveland Museum of Art's NEO show to great acclaim.
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Dan Tranberg was born in Newark, New Jersey, grew up in Chicago, and moved to Cleveland in 1995. He received his BFA at Northern Illinois University in 1988, MA at Purdue University in 1991, and studied art criticism in the graduate school at the University of Illinois, Chicago though 1994. Since moving to Cleveland he has participated in more than 25 exhibitions. He began writing about art for The Free Times in 1997 and for The Plain Dealer in 1999, where he continues to be a regular contributing critic and writer. He has been teaching in the painting department at Cleveland Institute of Art since 2000. In 2003, he cofounded Angle Magazine, were he remained visual arts editor through 2006. He received Individual Artist Fellowships/Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council in 2002 and 2007, and has written for more than a dozen national and international art magazines including Art in America, BOMB, NY Arts, Art on Paper, and ArtUS.
Saturday, May 9th, 2009
Dr. Barbara Tannenbaum, Director of Curatorial Affairs, has been at the Akron Art Museum since 1985. Before coming to Akron, Tannenbaum was director of OxBow (the oldest continuously operating summer art school in the U.S.) and taught at Oberlin College, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Wyoming. Tannenbaum has organized over 50 exhibitions for the Akron Art Museum, including the groundbreaking A History of Women Photographers and the major retrospective of the photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard. She gave internationally noted artists Adam Fuss, Aminah Robinson and Chakaia Booker their first solo museum shows. In fall 2006 she was one of thirty-five international art professionals invited to Beijing participate in the first ever international photography reviews held in China.
Kasumi
Associate Professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Kasumi is recognized as one the leading innovators of a new art form synthesizing sound, film, and live video manipulation. She has won acclaim for her " ideo/sound recursions" in performances venues and with collaborators worldwide: from Lincoln Center with The New York Philharmonic to live shows with Grandmaster Flash and DJ Spooky. Most recently, her new work BREAKDOWN, premiered at Carnegie Hall.
Her formal training as a painter and Baroque lutenist is apparent in her exploration of rhythmically intricate and metaphorically rich contrapuntal layering; time-remapping and polyphonic warping techniques; and psychologically resonant "looping" variations of incremental human gestures and vocalizations.
She is also noted for her highly charged commentary on world politics including the critically acclaimed critique of the Bush administration's foreign and domestic policies called "The Free Speech Kunstverein was described by the Stuttgarter Nachricten as "a modern age version of Francesco Goya's 'Distasters of War'."
Kasumi's work has been screened at festivals and distinguished institutions world wide: the Chroma Festival de Arte Audiovisual, Guadalajara; the Forum des Images, Paris; Milano Film Festival; Expresión en Corto, Mexico City; Muzeul Florean, Romania; Itau Cultural Center, Sao Paulo; Ankara International; Art Film Festival, Bratislava; Melbourne International; Lausanne Underground; MediaARtLab, Moscow; Project 304 Bangkok; MECAL, Barcelona; Lundabio, Reykjavik; VideoLisboa Lisbon; The Butler Institute of American Art; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston; AFO, Czech Republic; Museu de Arte Moderna and Media Electronica, Rio de Janeiro; San Diego Museum of Art; Madurai Collective, India; Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires; Young Iranian Cinema; and Anthology Film Archives among others. Some of her awards include the Adriano Asti Award for Best Experimental Film at Montecacini, Italy; Director's and Program Staff Citation at the Black Maria Film Festival; Best Experimental Film at the Sapporo International Short Film Festival; the Seoul Film Festival's Special Jury Award; IFP Chicago's Best Experimental Film award.
Formerly a lecturer at the Tokyo College of Music, Kasumi is currently Associate Professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Kristin Rogers
Art Education and Communications Manager
Anyone who has ever gone to college to concentrate on art has heard the quip, "I hope you like busing tables" - a humorous reminder of the scant art related employment opportunities for people with art degrees. The disturbing reality of the matter is how often that is truly the case—almost anywhere you go. Cleveland is certainly no exception, and I simply love the fact that I come to work everyday knowing that my college education is being used in a way that pretty directly reflects what I studied. Leading up to working at Progressive, I've actually had the great fortune of working in other art related capacities. Immediately prior to Progressive, I worked for the Cleveland Municipal School District as an administrator for their Department of Arts Education. I had known about the art at Progressive for years, and when I heard of a job posting in the summer of 2004, I applied immediately, and here I am today.
My position with the Progressive Art Collection is Art Education and Communications Manager. As such, I administer educational and event-based programs which leverage Progressive's vast collection as a resource and point of departure for engaging projects. Art education at Progressive unites the great diversity of art in our collection with our equally diverse community of Progressive people. We provide intelligent and innovative art programs to encourage and facilitate communication among Progressive people about the art that shapes our work environment and its relationship to the times in which we live. Learning to appreciate art at Progressive is learning to appreciate why Progressive is a great place to work.
In addition to working at Progressive, I am also an active artist focusing on multi-media installations, sound sculpture, and artist/activist interventions. I live in Lakewood, where I also run an exhibition space with my family in the renovated first floor of our century home. Our gallery, newsense enterprises, seeks to involve the community and artists through exhibitions, forums, film screenings, and related events. Having the space in a house setting contributes to our blurred distinction between art and life, and offers an accommodating point of entry for community involvement and collaboration.
Liz Maugans
Liz Maugans is one of Zygote Press’ cofounders and has been the Managing Director since 1995. She is a native of Lakewood, Ohio, and received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from Kent State University. She received her Masters of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She teaches drawing and printmaking at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Lorain County Community College. She has taught at several of the local universities including Kent State University and Cuyahoga Community College (Metro). She has exhibited her work nationally and is in several collections including B.F. Goodrich Collection, The Print Club of Albany and The Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts. She received an Individual Artist Grant (Excellence Award) in 2000 from the Ohio Arts Council and several other project grants (ArtZreach, Reverend Albert Wagner) from the Ohio Arts Council and The Cleveland Collectivo. She has curated several shows at Heights Arts, Cleveland Artist Foundation (Print Biennials), Cuyahoga Community College and Zygote Press.
Jen Craun
Design and Marketing
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, a non-profit gallery and print studio. She teaches part time at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and enjoys teaches as an artist resident for Art House, Inc. as well as Progressive Arts Alliance.
Bellamy Printz
Bellamy Printz was born and raised in New York City. She received her BA from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her MFA from University of Washington, Seattle. As an artist, Bellamy has exhibited her work nationally, including a PULSE exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Art in Cleveland (now MOCA) and is the recipient of several grants from Ohio Arts Council. Bellamy is a co-founder of Zygote Press. She has curated numerous exhibitions in Cleveland and Columbus at Zygote Press, SPACES, the Ohio Arts Council's Riffe Gallery, and other venues. Until January 2007, Bellamy was Public Programs Manager at Cleveland Public Art, and organized the Spectrum Dialogue Series for the Cleveland Public Library. She is currently a Curator for the Art Program at the Cleveland Clinic.
Knut LSG Hybinette
Assistant Professor at The Cleveland Institute of Art
Knut LSG Hybinette was born in Enkoping, Sweden and is an Assistant Professor at The Cleveland Institute of Art where he teaches game design and digital foundations.
He works in multiple mediums including game design, photography, animation, video and sound. Knut has exhibited his work at galleries in Sweden, Portugal, Germany and the United Sates.
Additionally, Knut has been published in the American publication Oculus and others. In 2003, he was sponsored/commissioned by January to create a portfolio of the Night Chicago.
Knut has shown a series of photographs that tell us of the process of aging through examining each individual story at Arts Atrium Gallery in New York and at Jet Artworks Gallery.
Works in Progress (WIP) is a new program at Zygote Press for 2008-2009 for practicing artists
to present and discuss their work, and to benefit from exchange with other artists and arts
professionals in an open and productive forum. The program will culminate in a two-day
symposium and exhibition in June ‘09. The symposium, “Practical Information for Professional
Artists,” will feature a series of presentations which include but are not limited to: residency
programs and experiences; artist web development; finding funding; hands-on art workshops,
and approaching galleries. Speakers will include artists from the Northeast Ohio area as well
as gallerists, curators, critics and art professionals from Cuyahoga County. WIP has been
partially funded through a grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.
Sunday, August 16th, 2008
Douglas Max Utter was educated in part at Case-Western Reserve University and has taught painting and drawing courses at the University of Akron, Kent State University, and the Cleveland Institute of Art. In addition to an accomplished career in painting and printmaking, he is an award-winning critic and essayist for many regional and national publications. He currently is the resident art critic for Cleveland Scene. Douglas Max Utter is the author of more than three hundred articles, reviews, catalogue essays and introductory essays, published by Art Papers (Atlanta), New Art Examiner (Chicago), Dialogue (Columbus), Angle (Cleveland), The Plain Dealer, the Free Times (Cleveland), Ceramics Monthly, Fiber Arts, Northern Ohio Live, Kent State University Press, MOCA Cleveland, the McDonough Museum, and various galleries.
Sunday, November 16th , 2008
Paola Morsiani is Curator of Contemporary Art at The Cleveland Museum of Art. Until December 2007 and since April 1999, she was Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Morsiani received her Laurea in art history and history of criticism from the University of Padua in Italy, and an MA in Arts Administration from New York University. She is a 2008 fellow of the Curatorial Leadership Program, New York. Prior to joining the Contemporary Arts Museum, she worked at the Drawing Center and at the Queens Museum in New York, and in Pittsburgh, PA, at the Carnegie Museum of Art. She independently curated shows in Italy, for PS122 Gallery, New York, and Art & Idea, Mexico City, among others institutions. Morsiani has also contributed critical essays to numerous exhibition catalogues and journals on artists such as Inka Essenhigh, Nader Ahriman, Adrian Paci, and Matthew Sontheimer, and on contemporary video and film.
Morsiani has curated a number of internationally acclaimed exhibitions at the CAMH, including Wishing for Synchronicity: Works by Pipilotti Rist (2006), Andrea Zittel: Critical Space (2005, co-organized with the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York), Fade In: New Film and Video (2004), When 1 is 2: The Art of Alighiero e Boetti (2002), and Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art (2001). Among other projects, Morsiani is currently working on the reinstallation of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s collection of contemporary art, in the Museum’s new East Wing, which will open to the public in June 2009.
Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Ellen Rudolph is Curator of Exhibitions at the Akron Art Museum, bringing with her a diverse set of skills and a strong commitment to community interaction. Rudolph coordinates the museum's traveling exhibition schedule and originates new exhibitions for the museum. She received her Master of Arts degree from Case Western Reserve University and was formerly the Assistant Curator of the Progressive Corporation's art collection. In addition, she has worked as an independent curator and manager of private collections in the Cleveland area as well as working at Sotheby's in New York. Among other exhibitions in the Cleveland area, Rudolph organized and curated the NEO+ONE exhibition in 2005 as a response to the Cleveland Museum of Art's NEO show to great acclaim.
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Dan Tranberg was born in Newark, New Jersey, grew up in Chicago, and moved to Cleveland in 1995. He received his BFA at Northern Illinois University in 1988, MA at Purdue University in 1991, and studied art criticism in the graduate school at the University of Illinois, Chicago though 1994. Since moving to Cleveland he has participated in more than 25 exhibitions. He began writing about art for The Free Times in 1997 and for The Plain Dealer in 1999, where he continues to be a regular contributing critic and writer. He has been teaching in the painting department at Cleveland Institute of Art since 2000. In 2003, he cofounded Angle Magazine, were he remained visual arts editor through 2006. He received Individual Artist Fellowships/Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council in 2002 and 2007, and has written for more than a dozen national and international art magazines including Art in America, BOMB, NY Arts, Art on Paper, and ArtUS.
Saturday, May 9th, 2009
Dr. Barbara Tannenbaum, Director of Curatorial Affairs, has been at the Akron Art Museum since 1985. Before coming to Akron, Tannenbaum was director of OxBow (the oldest continuously operating summer art school in the U.S.) and taught at Oberlin College, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Wyoming. Tannenbaum has organized over 50 exhibitions for the Akron Art Museum, including the groundbreaking A History of Women Photographers and the major retrospective of the photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard. She gave internationally noted artists Adam Fuss, Aminah Robinson and Chakaia Booker their first solo museum shows. In fall 2006 she was one of thirty-five international art professionals invited to Beijing participate in the first ever international photography reviews held in China.
Kasumi
Associate Professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Kasumi is recognized as one the leading innovators of a new art form synthesizing sound, film, and live video manipulation. She has won acclaim for her " ideo/sound recursions" in performances venues and with collaborators worldwide: from Lincoln Center with The New York Philharmonic to live shows with Grandmaster Flash and DJ Spooky. Most recently, her new work BREAKDOWN, premiered at Carnegie Hall.
Her formal training as a painter and Baroque lutenist is apparent in her exploration of rhythmically intricate and metaphorically rich contrapuntal layering; time-remapping and polyphonic warping techniques; and psychologically resonant "looping" variations of incremental human gestures and vocalizations.
She is also noted for her highly charged commentary on world politics including the critically acclaimed critique of the Bush administration's foreign and domestic policies called "The Free Speech Kunstverein was described by the Stuttgarter Nachricten as "a modern age version of Francesco Goya's 'Distasters of War'."
Kasumi's work has been screened at festivals and distinguished institutions world wide: the Chroma Festival de Arte Audiovisual, Guadalajara; the Forum des Images, Paris; Milano Film Festival; Expresión en Corto, Mexico City; Muzeul Florean, Romania; Itau Cultural Center, Sao Paulo; Ankara International; Art Film Festival, Bratislava; Melbourne International; Lausanne Underground; MediaARtLab, Moscow; Project 304 Bangkok; MECAL, Barcelona; Lundabio, Reykjavik; VideoLisboa Lisbon; The Butler Institute of American Art; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston; AFO, Czech Republic; Museu de Arte Moderna and Media Electronica, Rio de Janeiro; San Diego Museum of Art; Madurai Collective, India; Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires; Young Iranian Cinema; and Anthology Film Archives among others. Some of her awards include the Adriano Asti Award for Best Experimental Film at Montecacini, Italy; Director's and Program Staff Citation at the Black Maria Film Festival; Best Experimental Film at the Sapporo International Short Film Festival; the Seoul Film Festival's Special Jury Award; IFP Chicago's Best Experimental Film award.
Formerly a lecturer at the Tokyo College of Music, Kasumi is currently Associate Professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Kristin Rogers
Art Education and Communications Manager
Anyone who has ever gone to college to concentrate on art has heard the quip, "I hope you like busing tables" - a humorous reminder of the scant art related employment opportunities for people with art degrees. The disturbing reality of the matter is how often that is truly the case—almost anywhere you go. Cleveland is certainly no exception, and I simply love the fact that I come to work everyday knowing that my college education is being used in a way that pretty directly reflects what I studied. Leading up to working at Progressive, I've actually had the great fortune of working in other art related capacities. Immediately prior to Progressive, I worked for the Cleveland Municipal School District as an administrator for their Department of Arts Education. I had known about the art at Progressive for years, and when I heard of a job posting in the summer of 2004, I applied immediately, and here I am today.
My position with the Progressive Art Collection is Art Education and Communications Manager. As such, I administer educational and event-based programs which leverage Progressive's vast collection as a resource and point of departure for engaging projects. Art education at Progressive unites the great diversity of art in our collection with our equally diverse community of Progressive people. We provide intelligent and innovative art programs to encourage and facilitate communication among Progressive people about the art that shapes our work environment and its relationship to the times in which we live. Learning to appreciate art at Progressive is learning to appreciate why Progressive is a great place to work.
In addition to working at Progressive, I am also an active artist focusing on multi-media installations, sound sculpture, and artist/activist interventions. I live in Lakewood, where I also run an exhibition space with my family in the renovated first floor of our century home. Our gallery, newsense enterprises, seeks to involve the community and artists through exhibitions, forums, film screenings, and related events. Having the space in a house setting contributes to our blurred distinction between art and life, and offers an accommodating point of entry for community involvement and collaboration.
Liz Maugans
Liz Maugans is one of Zygote Press’ cofounders and has been the Managing Director since 1995. She is a native of Lakewood, Ohio, and received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from Kent State University. She received her Masters of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She teaches drawing and printmaking at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Lorain County Community College. She has taught at several of the local universities including Kent State University and Cuyahoga Community College (Metro). She has exhibited her work nationally and is in several collections including B.F. Goodrich Collection, The Print Club of Albany and The Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts. She received an Individual Artist Grant (Excellence Award) in 2000 from the Ohio Arts Council and several other project grants (ArtZreach, Reverend Albert Wagner) from the Ohio Arts Council and The Cleveland Collectivo. She has curated several shows at Heights Arts, Cleveland Artist Foundation (Print Biennials), Cuyahoga Community College and Zygote Press.
Jen Craun
Design and Marketing
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, a non-profit gallery and print studio. She teaches part time at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and enjoys teaches as an artist resident for Art House, Inc. as well as Progressive Arts Alliance.
Bellamy Printz
Bellamy Printz was born and raised in New York City. She received her BA from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her MFA from University of Washington, Seattle. As an artist, Bellamy has exhibited her work nationally, including a PULSE exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Art in Cleveland (now MOCA) and is the recipient of several grants from Ohio Arts Council. Bellamy is a co-founder of Zygote Press. She has curated numerous exhibitions in Cleveland and Columbus at Zygote Press, SPACES, the Ohio Arts Council's Riffe Gallery, and other venues. Until January 2007, Bellamy was Public Programs Manager at Cleveland Public Art, and organized the Spectrum Dialogue Series for the Cleveland Public Library. She is currently a Curator for the Art Program at the Cleveland Clinic.
Knut LSG Hybinette
Assistant Professor at The Cleveland Institute of Art
Knut LSG Hybinette was born in Enkoping, Sweden and is an Assistant Professor at The Cleveland Institute of Art where he teaches game design and digital foundations.
He works in multiple mediums including game design, photography, animation, video and sound. Knut has exhibited his work at galleries in Sweden, Portugal, Germany and the United Sates.
Additionally, Knut has been published in the American publication Oculus and others. In 2003, he was sponsored/commissioned by January to create a portfolio of the Night Chicago.
Knut has shown a series of photographs that tell us of the process of aging through examining each individual story at Arts Atrium Gallery in New York and at Jet Artworks Gallery.