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Pam Spremulli

September 18, 2024

With over three decades of experience in design, education and illustration, Pam shares knowledge in the often misunderstood world of Digital Art. Her journey as a Graphic Designer and as a painter enables her to intertwine and develop skills to form a colorful world of line, shape, and simplicity – pushing the art of Graphic […]

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Rachel Ferber

September 18, 2024

Rachel Ferber is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator based in Cleveland, OH. Her work explores the sticky sides of power, performance and sustainability through the lens of commodified private space. She holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, as well as a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art, and her work has […]

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Nicole Condon-Shih

September 18, 2024

Nicole Condon-Shih is an artist whose research-driven practice explores the intersections of art, science, and technology.  Investigating the relationships between microscopic and macroscopic systems, her work visualizes biological structures and environmental urgencies. Inspired by resilient organisms like lichen, she explores symbiosis, adaptation, and the unseen networks that shape our ecosystems.  Her work has been exhibited […]

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Katie Melnick

September 18, 2024

Katie Melnick is a partner at Fizz Creative with her husband, Jasen. Together, they have built Fizz as a creative powerhouse specializing in branding and packaging design for food and consumer goods. Katie has become her clients’ cheerleader, creative conduit, and brand therapist, empowering her clients to blaze their own trails based on the unique […]

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Natalie Lanese

September 18, 2024

Natalie Lanese’s work is recognized for its punchy color palette and layered patterns. She makes paintings, collages, and installations, which The Village Voice described as “enigmatic narratives heightened by keen color clashes and jazzy textures” when covering her exhibition at Jack the Pelican Presents in Brooklyn in 2007. Lanese has exhibited her work at MOCA […]

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Lincoln Adams

September 18, 2024

Lincoln Adams has worked for 20 years as an illustrator, storyboard artist and designer. His projects have included magazines, television shows, character design, book covers, and greeting cards and was selected to the 47th Annual Society of Illustrators West Show in Los Angeles. He as worked on popular animated shows such as Hasbro’s Hanazki, Barbie: […]

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James Groman

September 18, 2024

After graduating with a BFA degree from Cleveland Institute of Art in 1986, James Groman was hired by American Greetings Entertainment and Toy Concept Division: ‘Those Characters from Cleveland,’ where he worked on the development of brands like Care Bears, Popples, Madballs, Blurp Balls, My Pet Monster, and Ring Raiders. He also conceived and designed […]

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Amber Kempthorn

September 18, 2024

Amber Kempthorn explores time and nostalgia through drawing. She is a graduate of Hiram College, the Maryland Institute of Art, and the Cranbrook Academy of Art where she received her MFA in Sculpture in 2008. Her work has been exhibited across the U.S., including in the inaugural Front International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art and […]

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Suzanne McGinness

September 18, 2024

Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University – MA Children’s Book IllustrationNotre Dame College – Ohio Teacher Licensure, Art EducationCleveland Institute of Art – BFA Suzanne McGinness completed her BFA in Illustration at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2007. She receiveda Master of Arts in Children’s Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art […]

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Anthony Scalmato

September 18, 2024

Anthony Scalmato has created more than 100 published works which have been viewed on television, web and mobile devices. Before joining CIA, Scalmato worked as a Senior Creative Developer at American Greetings where he provided animations, illustrations and art direction for products that are viewed globally by millions of people every month. He created the […]

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