Cleveland Print Room Inc

Programs: Multiple exposure cleveland (mx) arts mastery program is funded by the cleveland foundation arts initiative and is an arts workshop for middle school and high school students in cleveland that enables participants to express their creativity, mastering visual literacy, and photography skills and techniques via access to instant film cameras. This program brings photography to students in the community and provides a high quality immersive arts education experience by focusing on mastering the skill of visual storytelling and the craft of photography. Mx is a year-round arts program where students learn the basics of photography, how to interpret information and communicate visually in the form of an image, challenging youth to examine and re-imagine the world around them documenting it photographically. Each student receives a lomography instant wide camera, a camera bag, 10 packs of film, a field notebook/sketch book, and a curriculum that teaches the art of photography through assignment. The works created will be formally critiqued and successful works selected by the students are presented to the public in art exhibitions and displayed at local arts, education or social service organizations around cleveland, with a focus on teaching students the business of art from start to finish. Participating locations in 2017 included campus international school, harvard community service center, st. Martin de porres high school, bethany baptist church & saint rocco school, and fdr academy. New sites were added in 2017 as we established partnerships with city of cleveland recreation centers. At the end of the grant term 50 students will continue on as masters/mentors. Long term goals of the grant have at least 90 students on track to have completed two semesters. In the summer of 2017, cpr worked with shooting w/o bullets which provided youth with darkroom usage. This project was included as part of the mx grant from the cleveland foundation and was also funded by the ohio arts council.

as a host organization for nine international artists-in-residence in cleveland foundation's creative fusion program, over four years, the cleveland print room welcomed international artists to cleveland for extended three-month residencies. While traditional artist residency programs are in retreat settings for individually-centered work, creative fusion is unique in partnering the visiting artists with local arts organizations with a goal of maximizing the cultural exchange between the artists and the community. Creative fusion focuses on bringing artists to cleveland from cultures not well represented in our community and in providing many opportunities for the community to interact with the artists. There is a particular focus on having the artists engage with young people through in-depth projects conducted at schools and youth-centered arts organizations. Since participating in the creative fusion program in 2014, the cleveland print room has hosted artists from taiwan, chile, south africa, and cuba. The artists have worked in depth with public elementary, high school, and college students and their art has touched thousands of greater cleveland residents through performances, exhibitions, lectures, and personal encounters. In 2017, we hosted two cuban artists at the cleveland print room. The artists interacted with the public through artist talks, portrait photography sessions in two public locations,cultural exchange events and culminating exhibitions.

cpr is located in the st. Clair/superior arts district in cleveland, ohio and is one of the few arts organizations in the united states that provides all of these comprehensive services under one roof. Cpr is the only community darkroom in the state of ohio. Cleveland print room offers a place to process 20th century emulsion-based film and analog photography collectively with others who share a passion for the photographic arts. The print room's 3,500-sq ft facility includes full developing and darkroom printing services. Cpr's 400 members have access to our darkroom and workspace, which can be rented on a monthly basis and booked individually by artists, or used collaboratively with other community members. Our primary activities are to initiate and facilitate projects and educational programs with professional artists, community arts organizations and exchange programs, where artists, youth, and the public interact collaboratively. Our programs include workshops and classes in photographic arts with a focus on using classic photographic processes, along with exploring interesting modes of analog processing and alternative processing and artist/gallery talks for the community. Cpr is committed to providing affordable community darkroom services, year-round youth programs, studio workspace and exhibition opportunities for students, amateurs, and professional photographers so that they may make work, exhibit in our gallery, and earn income through sales and teaching opportunities. Since photography is a huge part of everyday life, cpr has a shared desire to partner with the photographic community, the arts community, social services community and the education community. Cleveland print room also provides rental space for local artists who wish to showcase their work or are looking to host arts-based special events in our gallery, as well as offering and renting the facilities to community organizations in need of space.

project snapshot/ohio civil rights commission. Cpr conducts a sixteen-week black and white photography program that teaches youth the basics and fundamentals of analog film photography which cumulates in a year-long exhibition at the ohio civil rights commission offices located in columbus, ohio. Students gain experience in the understanding of how analog photography works through lectures, demonstrations and hands-on applications, including camera functions, 35mm processing film and making photographic prints in the dark room in-line with ohio arts education. The basic elements of good composition, proper exposure and print finishing such as mounting and matting techniques are covered. This cpr project focuses on student's self-awareness and identity development by visual storytelling through photography. Representatives from the ohio civil rights commission meet with the students to discuss ideas concerning civil rights and encourage them to create their own photographic images related to the topic. Students will also be instructed on how to create and display their photo-graphs for their inclusion in a professional exhibition and learn the business of being an artist from start to finish. 4e in transformations is a year-long program funded by cuyahoga arts & culture in partnership with metrohealth. This project integrates visual arts with social emotional learning. Cpr introduces cleveland public school students by metrohealth's school health program to photography projects focusing on self-portrait and self-assessment providing a means for creative ex-pression and social awareness through social emotional learning. Instructors integrate individual and group discussions into each workshop. The project culminates in public exhibitions at cpr, the public schools and metrohealth locations. In 2017, cpr worked in scranton elemen- tary, john adams high school and lincoln west global academy two semesters a year. Cpr participated in slavic village's room to let (rtl) program in may 2017 in collaboration with lincoln west. 4f air/connect: cpr began a new international residency exchange in 2017 funded by the ohio arts council, artist in residency/connect (air/connect. ) air/connect is an urban-based, community engaged residency/exchange program offering an exchange between ohio and international artists created by cpr. The program consists of one six-week residency in cleveland that was held in the spring of 2017 with a scottish artist, and one-six week residency for an ohio artist at dundee contemporary arts in scotland in early summer of 2017. The goal of the program is to bring schools and community organizations to work together with artists to share in personal, focused, sustained arts learning experiences. The artists in residence (air) work with cpr and dca in scotland to connect to local artists and other cultural/social service organizations. Participating organizations are selected by their dedication to providing creative programming and educational opportunities that engage airs in the local community through the arts not solely as spectators but rather as vital, active participants. Students from underserved communities will actively engage with the residency artists in projects created by each host organization and airs focusing on the artistic process and the diverse ethnic culture of each participant. Each residency culminates in an event hosted by the residency site to publicly share the resulting work created during the residency. 4g exhibition/workshops and classes: in 2017, cpr held 14 exhibitions in which work from students 9 to 70 years old was shown. There were 4 off-site exhibitions that features works from cpr members, students from classes or international visiting artists. The remaining 10 exhibitions took place at the cleveland print room gallery. In 2017, cpr held 14 classes/workshops that ranged from analog photography classes to wet plate collodion demonstrations.