“The civic engagement movement needs the humanities, and the humanities need civic engagement. They belong to each other.”
-David D. Cooper et al., “Can Civic Engagement Rescue the Humanities?,” in Learning in the Plural, Essays on the Humanities and Public Life (Michigan State University Press, 2014), p. 151.
Pressing Matters: Zygote Press x CWRU
Founded in 1996, Zygote Press has been serving Cleveland as a community printmaking studio, educational center, and gallery.
Its artist residencies, exhibitions, youth-centered workshops, and public programs all play a vital role in Cleveland’s creative economy, investing in the potential of Cleveland’s future creatives, thinkers, and leaders. As the nonprofit approaches its 30-year anniversary and prepares to move to a new facility, this study was commissioned to assess how Zygote, a collaborative, community-based printmaking nonprofit organization, has a positive impact on the social, emotional, and economic health of the community.
5th Annual Keithley Fellow in Community Engaged Art History
Special projects at Cleveland Public Library during Summer 2025.
The first was to create an interpretive plan (accessibility guidelines to follow when creating an exhibition) for the library to standardize their exhibition practices. This includes label writing, language guides, and accessibility amongst many other aspects. The second is working with partner non-profits (LAND Studio and shooting without bullets) and artists on in-gallery resources and materials for the upcoming exhibition series “PRISM: Race and Mass Incarceration.”
Community Liaison: Karamu in Context
Programming by and for the community
I held a small role in creating advertisements and marketing materials that were engaging for broader audiences with the with the goal to create a broader understanding of the place of Karamu House in Cleveland history, of printmaking in regional art histories, and of the social and racial inequities that have kept those histories untold.
Madalyn Fox 