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Michael Gill
Woodcut / Letterpress Books and Prints
Lakewood / Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Michael.Gill.216 at gmail.com


SOLO EXHIBITS

 

The Grownups Keep Talking / Nobody Knows Why
Massillon Museum, Massillon, Ohio, 2022

A Pocket Full of Change
Tregoning & Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 2015

Cats, Mice, and Movable Type
BAYarts, Bay Village, Ohio 2013

Common Household Rhymes for the Modern Child
William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, 2011

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

Northeast Ohio Print Invitational
Fawick Gallery, Baldwin Wallace University, 2023

Impagination
Heights Arts, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, 2022

The Printed Page
Abecedarian Books, Denver, Colorado 2018

52 Works, 52 Weeks
Fawick Gallery, Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, Ohio 2018

Residenten (With Ellen Price, Ana Garberg, and Nicolas Sphicas)
Graffikwerkstat, Dresden, Germany, 2014

RESIDENCIES AND EXCHANGES

With Laura Ruiz Montes, Matanzas, Cuba
Cleveland Foundation Creative Fusion, 2017

Dresden  Exchange, Graffikwerkstat, Dresden, Germany
Supported by Zygote Press, the Ohio Arts Council, and the city of Dresden, 2014

ARTIST BOOK PROJECTS

Momentum Like Diamonds
Woodcut and Letterpress on paper recycled after repeated use to clean press rollers and palate knives
Hardbound, edition of 10, 2024

A Pocket Full of Change / A Pocket Full of Change Parent Teacher Nanny Edition
Woodcut and Letterpress, 2015
hardbound, 20 woodcut illustrations, edition of 100

Elementary Science
Woodcut and Letterpress, 2014
paperbound, edition of 20

People on Bikes
Linoleum block, bicycle parts, Letterpress, 2013
series of 10 french-fold booklets featuring authors and other historic quotes on bicycles, edition of 30

Common Household Rhymes for the Modern Child
Woodcut, Letterpress, 2011
hardbound, 17 woodcut illustrations, edition of 100

Clam Boy and Big Sister Kitty Begin: The 40-Oz Puddle of Glass
Linoleum Block, 2008
hardbound, edition of 100

Clam Boy and Big Sister Kitty Liberate the Tree
and the Sun and Moon, and the Entire Landscape
Linoleum Block, 2006
hardbound, edition of 100

 

ADDITIONAL MONOGRAPHS

The Solution to the Crisis is Revolution: Graffiti of Ecuador, collected and translated
Ox head Press, 1994

388 Lines for My Imaginary Goddess
New Spirit Press, 1994

The Atheist at Prayer
March Street Press, 1991

EMPLOYMENT

Executive Director, Editor, Publisher, Collective Arts Network / CAN Journal
2012 – present

Arts Editor, Cleveland Scene
2008 – 2011

Senior Editor / Arts, Cleveland Free Times
2002-2008

Staff Writer, Lakewood Sun Post
2001-2002

Marketing Director, Beck Center for the Arts
1994-2001

Instructor, Instituto de Lenguas Extranjeras, Universidad de San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
1992

Media Specialist, Consumer Information Center, US General Services Administration, Washington, DC
1988-1992

Laborer, Caer Llan Field Study Center, Monmouth, Wales, UK
1987

Instructor, Dept. of English, Eastern Washington University, Cheney/Spokane, Washington
1986-1988

EDUCATION

MFA, Creative Writing, Eastern Washington University (Cheney / Spokane), 1988

BA, English, Hiram College (Hiram, Ohio), 1986