Intern Lead

Chandler Mack is a Post Digital Printmaker from Youngstown, Ohio. She received her BFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Printmaking from Kent State University, and she hopes to work towards her MFA soon. Her work mainly focuses on the idea of women working, how their work defines them, and the way it changes society’s perception of them. She uses alternative photo-processes combined with traditional printmaking processes to create dynamic layers intended to resonate with the viewer’s own experiences

Joey Leppo is an artist with a passion for creating work using various printmaking methods. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Design, his artwork is mainly inspired by his upbringing as a military child and his heritage as a Japanese American. Joey creates his work through creating highly detailed drawings, then transferring and reproducing those images through various print methods, abstracting editions of an image as a representation of the movement of time. Outside of print, his interests lie in skateboarding, graphic design, and ceramic design

tahm is Black and Latine, queer, and a dedicated leftist—these intersecting identities inform their approach as a printmaker, teaching artist, and political educator. They are a teaching artist and an education/community engagement intern at Zygote Press, and the fall semester Maker-in-Residence with Cleveland Heights Public Library.  tahm’s mission as an artist-activist is to build a culture of revolution and establish a radical, inclusive, vibrant art scene in Cleveland. They accomplish this by providing politically informed, accessible art workshops, organizing for local, state-wide, and international causes, and creating open-edition political art for distribution rather than collection. 

Fi (they/them) is a multimedia artist and designer based in Kent, Ohio. Currently working towards a BFA in Visual Communication Design, their work spans mediums of photography, graphic design, illustration, printmaking, and pretty much anything else they can get their hands on. Their muses include found and forgotten print ephemera, intersecting queer and religious iconography, and their three pet rats. When not creating, you can find them working in galleries and absorbing as much art as possible.

Born and raised in the Cleveland area, Michaella is a recent graduate of Pratt Institute where she studied Illustration and minored in Book Arts. First introduced to printmaking in high school via linocuts, Michaella has had a passion for it ever since and used her time at Pratt to explore as much of the medium as possible, becoming familiar with relief prints, riso, silkscreen, and lithography, overall becoming enamored with fine art printmaking and the hands-on process heavy quality behind it. Her current work has been heavily influenced by florals and poetry but really can expand to whatever bewitches her in the moment.

Isabella Robert Llorens is a Boricua jewelry maker, metalsmith, and printmaker. They moved from Puerto Rico to Cleveland in 2019 to study at Case Western Reserve University, from which they graduated in 2023. Their art expresses themes of self exploration through elements of nature and horror. They also make art that represents the struggle for Puerto Rican liberation and the resiliency of the Puerto Rican culture and identity despite so many decades of colonialism and exploitation.  

Erin Mchugh is a Cleveland based interdisciplinary artists with a special interest in the intersections of printmaking, drawing, fiber arts and up-cycling. She is expecting to graduate from Cleveland State University in the Spring of 2025 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Using figural imagery, she addresses the broader themes of femininity and self-perception based on her relationship with herself, others, and societal expectations. She often juxtaposes soft and traditionally feminine elements with more foreboding ones, symbolizing internal emotions through external environments. She incorporates fibers with 2-D work as well, using patchwork and embroidery, reworking clothing into up-cycled fashion.