Zygote Teaching Artists

Elyse is a first-generation Cuban-American fine art printmaker. She received her BFA from Bowling Green State University in 2018 and continued on to assistant teach at the university until moving to Cleveland. Now the Shop Tech at Zygote Press, Elyse continues to create prints through etching, photolithography, and screenprint to explore moments of intimacy and voyeurism.

Hannah Manocchio is a Cleveland based artist, educator, and random fact extraordinaire. With degrees in printmaking and art history, she is the owner of Snakes + Acey’s — a screen based print shop in historic Little Italy. Her eclectic range in style, technique, and design can be seen throughout her apparel, merchandise, and fine art. Her work is influenced by mythology, inequality, street art, and symbology. In addition to running her own business, she also teaches silkscreen to adults and youth. www.snakesandaceys.com

Wendy Partridge grew up in Rome, Italy and Berkeley, California.  She has a degree in history and French from Wellesley College and a graduate degree in art conservation from the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.  Between her undergraduate and graduate studies, she worked with printer Peter Koch for three years at his letterpress studio in Berkeley and at the Press in Tuscany Alley in San Francisco.

She currently works as a paintings conservator at the Intermuseum Conservation Association. She is a resident artist at Zygote Press where she helped establish the letterpress studio. In 2010 she received the Paul H. & Ginger S. Duensing Scholarship from the Penland School of Crafts to take a two week intensive letterpress workshop with book artist Inge Bruggeman.  In 2012 she was awarded a five week residency at the Grafikwerkstatt in Dresden, Germany by Zygote and the Ohio Arts Council.  

Lisa Schonberg explores the world of printmaking by combining a variety of processes including relief, intaglio, monoprinting and screenprinting.  Her images evoke a reverence for nature and exhibit phenomena such as water flow, earth formations, abstracted and entangled foliage along with other natural ephemera. Lisa received her MFA in Printmaking from Kent Sate University in 1984 and her BFA from Ohio University in 1976.  She recently retired from teaching as an adjunct professor of printmaking at Baldwin Wallace University, Notre Dame College and has taught in the Cleveland Institute of Art/Continuing Ed. Dept.  Her 40-year career includes a variety of experiences from teaching in public and private schools to participating in artists’ residencies and internships. lisamschonberg.com

Paul is from Cincinnati, OH and attended SAIC in Chicago, graduating in 2005. He taught high school art in Chicago Public Schools until 2014 then decided to make the move back to Ohio. In undergrad, Paul mainly focused on painting and drawing then fell in love with printmaking while taking etching and lithography classes. He experimented with screen printing here and there, but didn’t begin involving it into his own work until 5 years ago. Since then, it has become his printmaking medium of choice.

Anna Tararova was born in Russia and currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Anna is a printmaker and papermaker. She received an MFA in Printmaking from Ohio University and completed artist residencies at Paper Circle, Women’s Studio Workshop, The Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago, The Morgan Conservatory, and Dundee Contemporary Arts. Anna runs Empress Editions. annatararova.com

Michael Whitehead is a Printmaker/Artist from rural central Ohio. He received an MFA in Printmaking from Louisiana State University and a BFA from Ohio University. His work has been described by peers and mentors as “A return to the arts and crafts movement of the late 19th century”. While his technical approach to relief, intaglio, lithography and screen printing can be described as traditional; his work is always focused on creating a contemporary response to the animate architectural landscapes that surround him; evoking a sense of place while drawing narrative parallels between our current cultural moment and moments in print history.

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.

Krampitz is a Cleveland-Based mixed media artist who graduated from Kent State University with a concentration in Print Media and Photography in 2023, minoring in design. Krampitz’s work at Zygote includes being a teaching artist as well, specializing in risograph, screen printing, screen print monotypes, fabric screen printing, experimental print, and intaglio. Josie primarily works in intaglio, while they often utilize silkscreen for their digital designs. They find printmaking to be an exciting medium for exploration, while they continue to focus on illustrative drawings. They were introduced to printmaking during their college career, and the introduction of editions has allowed them to further embrace their roots in cartooning and design. Josie also works as a teaching artist for children, and loves spreading the word of print to whoever may listen!

tahm lytle is a queer, Black and Latine printmaker based out of Cleveland Heights. They primarily use relief, risograph, and letterpress processes to create new works. Most of their body of work is linocut block printing with black ink on recycled/upcycled paper. tahm prioritizes accessibility in their practice by incorporating cheap and recycled supplies and processes that can be done at home and easily taught to others. Their artwork illustrates their leftist politics, explores queerness, and shares their sense of humor. Muses include ecology, lesbian love, the Black and Latine experience, memes, cartoons, music, and more. They strive to speak to the human experience under late stage capitalism, imagine a post-capitalist future, and challenge the viewer to consider what resistance can look like in everyday life. Memento mori is a common motif in their work. They often depict humans as skeletons or use skull imagery, as an overt statement about humanity, and a hat tip to influential Mexican political printmakers such as José Guadalupe Posada. 

Raised in a household of creatives, making has been as connected to her as any limb. Printmaking became a focus in highschool through a passionate and resourceful teacher that trained her in a variety of at-home printing methods. It was in college though, where she found her love of stone lithography. Her work takes her vulnerable and private experiences and expresses them through cryptic personal symbolism. In hopes to not only blur the lines of her own memories but also so that it may be vague enough the viewer may project their own experiences and interpretation and find something to take home with them. Currently her work is exploring symbolism of yarn in connection to the body while also presenting contrast within the hardened nature of stone lithography printmaking

Julia Sorboro is an artist and printmaker from Stow, Ohio. In 2018, She received her BA specializing in Printmaking and Photography from Kent State University. Since then, she has worked in Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in NYC, as well as taking part in multiple solo and group shows in both NYC and Northeast Ohio. She is currently living and working in Cleveland, OH. 

Recently, Sorboro focuses on collage and limited edition lithographs. Her work is an exploration of shape, line, and texture; allowing the materials used to define the works themselves.

Andy Passchier is a picture book illustrator originally from The Netherlands, currently based in Cleveland, Ohio. They graduated in 2015 from Ringling College of Art and Design with a degree in illustration and a concentration in printmaking. After starting their career as an in-house artist at companies such as American Greetings and Joann Fabrics, they set out on their own to begin a career as a freelancer. They have since illustrated countless children's books, focusing on diversity, inclusivity, gender identity and LGBTQIA+ rights. In 2023 they released their first author-illustrated title Gender Identity For Kids, which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award the following year. Andy loves teaching letterpress and risograph printing, as well as engaging with community members about children's publishing, working as an independent artist, and illustrations focused on storytelling. Most recently, they are continuing their master's degree in Art History, hoping to focus on queer representation in the world of museums and other art institutions.