Zygote Press, Inc.

Excited to welcome our new grant writer, Sarah Guyuron!

Sarah is a creative and collaborative consultant focused on meaningful, community-focused partnerships. Her consulting experience includes an array of industries including non-profit advancement and management, events, design, talent attraction and retention, and theatre. She joined the Zygote team in 2024 as a Grant Writer.

Originally from Dothan, AL, Sarah received her BA in Theatre Design and Production from Tulane University. She then worked as an interior designer in New York City at J.D. Bell and Peter Marino Architect, a firm known for integrating art within architectural designs. Sarah became a Clevelander in 2010 and worked at Cleveland Play House for many years before transitioning to consulting work.

Read the rest of her Bio here: https://zygotepress.org/ourteam

Our night at the Drive-in on Saturday was a blast.Thank you to everyone who came out to screenprint a trick or treat tote bag with us! Here are some of our favorite shots from the evening.

photo 3 taken by photographer Tony Carter

Learn more about Issue 55, the arts and culture levy for Cuyahoga County on the November ballot. The final campaign meeting is coming up on Wednesday, October 30, at Zygote Press, Inc.

📅 October 30 | 4:15-5:15 PM
📍 Zygote Press, 1410 E 30th St, Cleveland

Here's what to expect:
🗳️ Voter mobilization tools
🗳️ Campaign updates
🗳️ Election night expectations
🗳️ Yard signs, stickers, and handouts

Let’s make these final days count!

Did you know that our Full-Access Shop Artist program allows 24/7 access to the Zygote Press print shop, and comes with a variety of storage options based on your needs. Only 3 spots open currently!

We are a community-centered printmaking facility with affordable rates, a 28-year history, and a wide array of equipment. Link in bio to check out the list of our presses and apply to become a full access artist.

Questions can be directed to [email protected]

We had a blast last weekend at our All Levels Monoprinting Workshop with .schonberg. Participants learned all about building textures, techniques, tips, tricks, and how to use a French Tool - and as you can see, they did great! You can learn printmaking at Zygote too - we still have some great workshops this Fall!

All of us at Zygote urge you to vote YES on Issue 55! We hosted an Issue 55 poster printing last week in our shop. Participants got to hand pull their own print on our Vandercook Letterpress.

Issue 55 is a replacement and expansion of the tax on ci******es that funds Cuyahoga Arts & Culture. Public funding for arts and culture is a difference-maker in our community. With expanded funding, CAC will be able to continue its mission to inspire and strengthen the community by investing in arts and culture. To learn more, click here.

https://www.cacgrants.org/news/issue-55-and-cuyahoga-arts-culture/

You're invite to the Winter Maker Market!! Come to a pop-up event showcasing the incredible talents of Cleveland area makers!

Happening on November 2nd from 11 AM to 3 PM at Zygote Press, this market will feature a diverse array of locally-constructed goods including jewelry, knitwear and needlework, fine art prints, stationary, bags and other accessories, 3D prints, and more!

Plus, don’t miss the opportunity to hand-make your own screen-printed commemorative poster!

Learn Screenprinting at Zygote! Have you always wanted to learn how to screenprint? Here's your chance! Join Zygote Teaching Artist Hannah Manocchio, owner of the screenprinting business Snakes & Aceys for this introductory screenprinting workshop. All are welcome. She will walk you through the basics – and get you comfortable in Zygote’s screenprinting studio. This class is truly for beginners - You won’t actually be making your own screens in this workshop, but you will get to pull some prints to take home. This is the first part of our Screenprinting Certification program and our most popular workshop - don’t miss your chance to take it! We have spots open for this one-day workshop on Thursday, November 7, 5:30-8pm.

P.S. Your instructor Hannah Manocchio is a true screenprinting rockstar - make sure you check out her company and buy some of her awesome work.

Click the link in our bio to register today!

We hope you can join us for a night at the movies!


Get a FREE Trick-or-Treat Tote bag in time for Halloween at the North Coast Yard Movie night!

Saturday, October 26 | 6 PM to 11 PM at 515 Erieside Ave
The North Coast Waterfront Development Corporation (NCWDC) is excited to be partnering with local printmakers from to offer a free silk screening activity at our double feature movie night event. From 6 PM to 7 PM, you'll have the chance to watch and try printmaking techniques. Attendees will also get to bring home this snazzy custom-designed trick-or-treat tote bag by local artist Thao Nguyen (while supplies last). Join us for this fun activity before the movies start! Then, at 7 PM we'll screen the family and dog-friendly film Frankenweenie, followed by the classic 1988 Beetlejuice at 9 PM. Both films are free, and local food vendors will be on-site with hot dogs, popcorn, and other delicious treats! Don’t forget to arrive early to ensure a spot!

More information and RSVP at NorthCoastYard_MovieNight.eventbrite.com!

Here are some of our favorite shots from our fall member mixer! Thank you to all the wonderful people who came out on Tuesday night to help celebrate the Zygote community!

ATTN Printmakers!

The National PRINT Residency application is now open!
Deadline to apply: June 1st, 2025

Zygote’s National PRINT Residency is open to printmakers and printmaking artists in the U.S., or North America. This 2-week, intensive residency allows artists dedicated time to complete special projects in Zygote’s Northeast Ohio facilities.

Residency focus: Experienced Printmakers

Residency dates: November 7th-22nd, 2025

Stipend: $500

Two hours of Shop Orientation

Shop flat file, locker, shared studio space, tools for the duration of the residency

Housing in ZPASS, our 2 bedroom apartment above the studio

An invitation to participate in Zygote’s annual members’ exhibition and sale

Zygote Community Patron Membership (value of $50) in the year of the residency, which grants access to Open Studio, and discounts on workshops and classes, and includes the ArtsPass membership with participating Cleveland arts organizations.

An independent advisory committee will review applications and make recommendations. Applicants should allow two to four weeks for the committee to make their decision.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: June 1st, 2025

All application materials below must be in a single PDF binder file no larger than 10MB

To apply, email the following materials to [email protected] :

(1) A letter of interest (500 word limit)

(2) A portfolio of recent work (10-15 images)

(3) Short Bio (one paragraph)

(4) Resume or CV

Thank you to all the wonderful people who came out on Tuesday night to help celebrate the Zygote community at our annual Fall Member Mixer!! We had a blast screenprinting totes, printing posters on the Vandercook, having some great local food, and showing new members around Zygote! Plus, thanks to the generosity of all the people who bought Zygote Hero totes that sponsor memberships for artists, we will be giving away 16 FREE memberships!! Keep an eye out for more information soon!

Join us next Friday (10/25) for an evening of Poetry in the gallery with !

𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙗𝙮 𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 with Samuel Ace & Julie Patton.

Samuel Ace is a trans/genderq***r writer and sound artist. His most recent books are I want to start by saying (CSU Poetry Center, 2024), Our Weather Our Sea (Black Radish), and Meet Me There: Normal S*x & Home in three days. Don’t wash. (Belladonna*). Ace is the recipient of the Astraea Le***an Writer Award and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in Poetry, as well as a repeat finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. Recent work can be found in Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems that Matter Most, Essential Q***r Voices of U.S. Poetry, Fence, BathHouse, The Texas Review, Poetry, We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetry, Best American Experimental Poetry, and many other journals and anthologies.



Julie Patton is the author of The Flower Poem (Tender Buttons) and Teething on Type (Rodent Press). A special issue of Chicago Review devoted to Julie’s poetic/performative/visual and land main/tenance project launches October 2024. Her work has appeared in About Place Journal, ((eco (lang)(uage(reader)), Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry, and the seminal Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Julie is a recipient of a 2012 Doan Brook Association Watershed Hero Award, the Cleveland Arts Prize, a Museum of Fine Arts Houston Core Resident Fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Her sound/text installation, Womb Room Tomb, was a 2018 Front Triennial hit. Julie, a sound-poet that composes with non-conventional instruments, has performed at Arts for Arts, the Stone, Artists Space, Center for Book Arts in NYC and in other noted venues here and abroad. She enjoys collaborating with Abou Farman, Janice Lowe, drummer Nasheet Waits. An award-wining educator, Julie has taught at NYU, the Jack Kerouac School/Naropa, Schule fur Dichtung, and in her own backyard. Wherever that may be.

Opening Reception tomorrow FRIDAY Oct 18th 5:30-7:30

Q***r Histories: Zygote Press is presented in honor of LGBT History Month. Celebrated annually in October, History Month coincides with National Coming Out Day (Oct 11) and the first march on Washington for gay rights (1979). The aim of LGBT History Month is to provide role models, build community and honor our extraordinary lineage.

This exhibition also celebrates the history of Zygote Press, a nonprofit community printmaking studio in Cleveland’s vibrant Asiatown neighborhood. For 28 years Zygote has been a safe haven for q***r artists, offering support through residency programs, studio access, and artistic development in a collaborative environment open to all. Q***r Histories: Zygote Press centers intergenerational q***r artists who currently work at Zygote Press, including young emerging artists as well as established artists who have worked in the shop for many years.

Co-organized by Kelly Pontoni & Brittany M. Hudak

Featured Artists:
Scout Bach (IG: .2224)
Fi Burnham ()
Leo Covault ()
Jen P. Harris ()
Brittany M. Hudak ()
Lawrence Hudson ()
R Kauff ()
Josie Krampitz ()
Last Pages of Humanity ()
tahm lytle ()
Wendy Partridge
Andy Passchier ()
Gina Washington ()
Jan Zorman

Catch us this weekend at YAY! FALL FUN taking place in Wade Oval in University Circle. Details below:


Get ready for a jam-packed day of fall fun with some of the best partners in town! 🍂 Enjoy hands-on nature activities with , creative experiences with , robots with , and so much more. There’s something for everyone at YAY! Fall Fun! 🎨🌿

Plus, don’t miss live performances on the Kulas Stage by , .Movement, and more! 🎶✨

Our Mono printing with leaves family workshop was a success! We had a big weekend of printing fall leaf cards, touring the shop, and trying out our mini press for more fall art. Interested in taking a workshop. Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date on happenings at the shop.

Link in our bio!

Looking for a fun Fall activity? Come to Zygote and learn how to make lovely monoprints at our one-day All Levels Monoprinting Workshop on Sunday, October 20, 10am-4pm! Join Zygote Teaching Artist .Schonberg for this introduction to monoprinting - All are welcome! Already know how to monoprint? Come in and work on some projects! Never tried printmaking before? No worries - Lisa will show you all the monoprinting basics, how to use the press, tips and tricks, and more in this one-day workshop. Everyone will leave with finished prints. Check out some photos from our last session, and click the link in our bio to register!

Please join our friends and fellow zygote artist for the opening of "From Woodblock to Inkjet" !

Featuring art from zygote artists:
Michael Whitehead
Wendy Partridge
Margaret Kimura
Jan Zorman
Lisa Schonberg
and many more!!!!


From Woodblock to Ink Jet premise displays works done in the “foundational” printing processes (broadly speaking; relief, intaglio, and planar) along with works that build or extemporize on those techniques. The exhibition offers a cursory chronology of printmaking and the creative technical, conceptual, and aesthetic variations of this oldest and, arguably, most demanding and elastic of media.

The reception will be in the Fawick Gallery Lobby from 5–8PM on October 16, 2024.

artwork titled "Steam Conduits and Connectors" by

ATTN Artists! Applications for The Local Residency are now open!

Each year, Zygote’s Local Artist-in-Residence program brings an experienced non-print artist into a collaborative printmaking environment to produce a body of work over several months.

Application Deadline: 11:59 pm January 17th, 2025
Residency focus: Experienced non-print Artists
Residency dates: March 18th, 2024 - May 18th, 2024
Stipend: $500
20 Hours of 1 on 1 instruction
Flat file/ Locker

24/7 Access to shared studio space

Yearlong ARTSPASS Membership

An independent advisory committee will review applications and make recommendations. Applicants should allow two to four weeks for the committee to make their decision.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 11:59pm January 17th, 2025

All application materials below must be in a single PDF file no larger than 10MB

To apply, email the following materials to [email protected] :

(1) A letter of interest (500 word limit)

(2) A portfolio of recent work (5-10 images)

(3) Short Bio (one paragraph)

(4) Resume or CV

Free Talk! Thursday, October 17th - 5:30-7pm

As part of the Affordable Print Fair, Zygote is offering a series of free talks for artists. Corporate art commissions can offer artists good career and sales opportunities but often come with a significant increase in the costs and risks involved. This presentation will give practical advice for artists on evaluating, bidding, and negotiating corporate commissions. The presenters, Christy Gray .art and Todd Masuda , are lifelong artists who happen to work on the business side of the fence. Their presentation will be appropriate for artists who are considering pursuing corporate or public art opportunities, gallerists and consultants who advise clients or artists on sales contracts, and, more generally, those interested in the way contracts work in creative businesses. Free and open to the public.

Last day to register and get in on the fun! Link in the bio!

ATTN Printmaking Artists! Applications are now open for the NEO Residency!

This Northeast Ohio fellowship is available to regional university printmaking graduates and other emerging printmaking artists. The selected artist will receive unlimited access to Zygote’s facilities for three consecutive months, and inclusion in the Zygote archives.

This residency is geared towards supporting emerging print artists in completing new bodies of work or specific projects that would benefit from Zygote’s specialized equipment and supportive community.

Application Deadline: 11:59 pm December 6th, 2024

Residency focus: NEO Emerging Printmakers

Residency dates: January 20th, 2024 - April 20th, 2024

Stipend: $500

20 hrs of 1 on 1 instruction

Flat file/ Locker

24/7 Access to shared studio space

Yearlong ARTSPASS Membership

An independent advisory committee will review applications and make recommendations. Applicants should allow two to four weeks after the submission deadline for the committee to make their decision.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 11:59pm December 6th, 2024

All application materials below must be in a single PDF file no larger than 10MB

To apply, email the following materials to [email protected] :

(1) A letter of interest (500 word limit)

(2) A portfolio of recent work (10-15 images)

(3) Short Bio (one paragraph)

(4) Resume or CV