We Want More
CIA x Mid America Print Council Conference

We Want More is a pop-up exhibition that represents an abbreviated overview of Josh MacPhee’s exhibition project We Want Everything, which opened in spring 2022 in the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Reinberger Gallery.

We Want Everything transformed Reinberger Gallery into an active maker space that mined the history of print and its connection to political activism, posters, radical music and book publishing design. The exhibition encouraged visitors to engage in the printmaking process, mixing and matching imagery and ideas throughout the history of art and organizing for a better world.

We Want More shares elements of the previous exhibition, alongside an archive of images that were produced by students, faculty and gallery visitors over the course of We Want Everything’s run, from remixed RISO posters to larger-than-life screenprints. At its core, We Want More is an exploration of an ever-evolving exhibition project by MacPhee that centers printmaking as a communal cultural practice.

MacPhee will present a keynote lecture at CIA’s Peter B. Lewis Theater as part of the Mid America Print Council Conference on Sunday, October 16. Kent State University School of Art is the host school of the MAPC conference and CIA is a partner school.

In addition to We Want More, CIA will display themed portfolio exchanges from MAPC across its campus:

Reinberger Gallery

• Finding & Feeling: Encounters in the Archive, organized by Amy Cousins and Ruben Castillo
• Enduring Images, organized by Josh MacPhee and Maggie Denk-Leigh
• Out of Choice, Out of Necessity, organized by Roberto Torres Mata
• Through the Narrative, organized by Maggie Denk-Leigh
• The Ties That Bind, organized by Chadwick Tolley

Alan Lipson Gallery

• The Resistance of Womxn: A Century of Suffrage, organized by Claire Bowman, Tara Segars and Susanna Harris
• Reappropriation, organized by Alanna Austin

Donna and Stewart Kohl Corridor

• Screenprint: Beyond DIY Culture, organized by Myles Calvert

Mary Ann and Jack Katzenmeyer Student Lounge

• Sustain, organized by Heather Leier

Ann and Norman Roulet Student + Alumni Gallery

• Liberated Print: Selected Student Works from the CIA Printmaking Department

Gary Johnson and Brenda Ashley Central Exhibition Corridor

• Student-selected works from the CIA Printmaking Department

October 14–16
Friday: Noon–9pm
Saturday: Noon–5pm
Sunday: 10am–5pm

All visitors are required to follow CIA’s masking protocols, which change based on the CDC’s Community Level for Cuyahoga County. To view current masking requirements, visit cia.edu/covid.

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