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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