Liz Maugans

462 Fordham Parkway Bay Village, Ohio 44140
440.617.0246 lizzyjohn@oh.rr.com

Education

1992 Masters of Fine Arts/Printmaking

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI.s

1989 Bachelors of Fine Arts/Printmaking & Painting/

Kent State University, Kent, OH.

Experience

95-08 Zygote Press, Inc. Co founder,

non-profit printmaking studio/gallery, Cleveland, OH.

06-08 Managing Director, Zygote Press:
responsible for overseeing all operations, fundraising, development and facilities.

05-08 Faculty/Drawing and Printmaking:
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH.
04-08 Faculty Drawing and Printmaking:
Lorain County Community College, Lorain, OH.
96-04 Faculty Drawing and Printmaking:
Kent State University, Kent, OH.

98-02 Faculty Drawing and Printmaking:
Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, OH.

00-02 Art Teacher,
Cleveland Public Schools, Summer Literacy Program

Curatorial

08 CAMP OUT,
Zygote Press Gallery, Cleveland, OH.

07 REVIVE,
Zygote Press Gallery, Cleveland, OH.

06 Mix Machine, co-curator,
Heights Ats, Cleveland Hts., OH.

05 Zygote Collects: Inside Members Collections,
Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH.

03 Preliminary Inventories, co-curator,
Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH.

00 Gut Reactions: works on paper,
Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, OH.

99 First Ohio Print Biennial, Virginia Foley Gallery,
Beck Center for the Arts, Lakewood, OH.

Exhibitions

08 Zygote Press: New works,
Mandel School for NonProfit Management, Cleveland, OH.

08 Printed and Pressed,
BayArts Gallery, Bay Village, OH.

07 Collector’s Choice,
Heights Arts, Cleveland, OH.

07 Come Closer,
Wooltex Gallery, Cleveland, OH.

07 Impressions,
Beachwood Community Gallery, Beachwood, OH.

07 Sayanara,
E. Gordon Gallery, Cleveland, OH.

06 Growing Pains,
Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH.

06 Liz Maugans, Amy Casey and AMATHIN,
E. Gordon Gallery, Cleveland, OH.

06 Decade Show,
University Hospitals Gallery, Cleveland, OH.

06 Flux : Feminine Identity,
Willoughby Fine Arts Association, Willoughby, OH.

05 NEO+One,
Murray Hill Galleries LLC, Cleveland, OH.

05 Faith Hope & Charity,
Zygote Press Gallery, Cleveland, OH.

05 Alumni Create Master Printshops,
School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH.

04 Select Prints,
Cleveland Bar Association at the Galleria, Cleveland, OH.

04 Tradition of Prints,
TruNorth Arts Center, Avon Lake, OH.

04 The Method and the Matrix: Contemporary Printmaking in Ohio ,
Weston Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.

04 The Method and the Matrix: Contemporary Printmaking in Ohio ,

Verne Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH.

03 Print Invitational: Jane Campbell Gallery,
Cleveland International Airport, Cleveland, OH.

03 Art/Action/AIDS,
SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH.

01 National Print Invitational,
School of the Art Gallery, Fort Hayes, KS.

01 Insight/In-site,
Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH.

00 And She Was,Two-person show,
Zygote Press Gallery, Cleveland, OH.

00 4th Biennial Works on Paper,
McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH.

00 Reading Visual Text: Regional Volumes,
Brew House Space, Pittsburgh, PA.

00 Contemporary Printmaking,
Westminster College Gallery, New Wilmington, PA.

99 Beyond and Between: Text in Contemporary Art,
Mandel JCC Gallery, Cleveland, OH.

99 Hypothetical Digs,
Zygote Press Gallery, Cleveland, OH.

97 Do It: True Crimes,
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI.

Grants/Awards

05-07 ArtZreach- Drawing It Out, Artist in Communities Grant,
Ohio Arts Council-working with women clients after detention introducing arts experiences while in rehabilitation

99 Reverend Albert Portfolio, Project Proposal Grant,
Ohio Arts Council

02 Public Billboard Project,
AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland and The City of Cleveland

00 Individual Artist Fellowship,
Ohio Arts Council

91 William H. Daisley Awards Scholarship,
Cranbrook Academy of Art

Collections

BF Goodrich Corporate Headquarters, Charlotte, North Carolina

California State University, Longbeach, California

Colgate University, Hamilton, Ohio

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI.

Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, New Jersey

Oregon Art Institute, Portland, Oregon

The Print Club of Albany, Albany, New York

Vern Riffe Center for Government and Art State Building, Columbus, OH.

Zygote Press Archives, Cleveland, OH.

Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH.

References

Bellamy Printz, Assistant Curator Cleveland Clinic Art Program,

bfprintz@gmail.com 216 798-7559

Maggie Denk-Leigh, Chair Printmaking, Cleveland Institute of Art,

mdenk@cia.edu 216 534-4730

Micheal Loderstedt, Professor of Art, KSU,
mloderst@kent.edu 216 481-8357

 

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