Continuing Conversations Open Receptions

Artists Archives of the Western Reserve

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• Date Thursday, January 30, 2025
• Time 5:30PM - 8:00PM
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Founded in 1996 by notable Cleveland sculptor David E. Davis and eight other prominent Ohio artists, including Shirley Aley Campbell and Patricia Zinsmeister Parker, the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve (AAWR) emerged from a shared vision. Recognizing the risk... more

Continuing Conversations: Woodblock to Inkjet, an exhibition of works by regional printmakers, including Print Club of Cleveland members Jennifer Leach, Bellamy Printz, and Paula Zinsmeister, will open at the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve on January 30 with a reception from 5:30 – 8:00pm, and run through March 22. Curated by Baldwin Wallace University’s Paul Jacklitch, Professor of Art, and Darlene G. Michitsch, Associate Professor of Art History, in conjunction with AAWR Executive Director Mindy Tousley, the show includes regional printmakers whose work both addresses foundational media (relief, intaglio, planar) and inventively expands on them, using techniques ranging from hand-coloring, stenciling, and found objects to laser-cut, digital, and more.

Remnants, is the inaugural Exhibition for Archived Artist and Master printmaker, Karen D. Beckwith. Remnants, will take a retrospective look at her work over the years. Ten works from the Archives collection combined with more recent work will be on display. Beckwith is a contemporary artist and printmaker that utilizes her talent to uncover and define visual depths within everyday scenes. A self-identified truth-seeker, she uses her formidable technical mastery to uncover the deeper, often overlooked stories of everyday existence, by exploring spaces within urban and rural settings that manifest hints, remnants, of inhabitants without revealing their identities.