Cleveland Print Room Inc

Youth education / teen institute cleveland print room's teen institute provides free, mastery-based photography education for students ages 12-19. In 2024, cpr served over 600 unduplicated students across school-year, summer, and weekend programs, with a goal of reaching 1,000 by the end of 2025. Students engage in darkroom, digital, and instant photography across multi-session formats that emphasize technical skill, creative autonomy, and conceptual development. Programs are offered in partnership with cleveland public and charter schools-including cmsd, urban community school, and saint martin de porres-and are supported by the cleveland foundation's arts mastery initiative and the ohio arts council's teacharts ohio program. Cpr also partners with tri-c's creative arts academy, mandel youth humanities academy, land studio, and western reserve land conservancy for specialized offerings in public art, humanities, and nature-based photography. Advanced students participate in cpr's youth fellowship, building portfolios, exhibiting work, and receiving mentorship. In fall 2025, cpr will launch a new professional development initiative for teaching artists rooted in trauma-informed and equity-based pedagogy. All programming is structured around three core values-purpose, mastery, and autonomy-and centers on student growth and creative expression.

Counterinventory / property inventory project counterinventory is a major photographic exhibition and civic publication curated by theodossis issaias and presented by cleveland print room. The project reimagines a 2023 city of cleveland property survey through a visual and narrative lens, commissioning seven artists to explore the built environment and question dominant narratives of vacancy, ownership, and development. The work addresses themes of displacement, environmental justice, food systems, spiritual life, and collective memory. Photography will be exhibited in cpr's gallery-located within the renovated lexington site-and in neighborhood-based installations across the city. A companion publication will feature essays, images, and archival materials that deepen public dialogue on land, place, and community. Counterinventory was developed in collaboration with civic partners and advocacy groups, and supported in part by the national endowment for the arts and ohio humanities. Though both grants were later rescinded due to federal cuts, cpr maintained the project's vision and is actively securing alternative support to bring the work forward.

In transformation & healing-centered practice "in transformation" is cpr's long-running photography and social emotional learning program, designed to help young people explore identity, self- expression, and collective care. With support from the ohio arts council, cpr delivers in-school workshops focused on self-portraiture, personal narrative, and critical reflection. Recent programming has included collaborations with lincoln-west, harvey rice, and slavic village's room to let festival. In 2024, cpr began integrating healing-centered engagement frameworks across all youth programming, planning a full staff and educator training led by habeebah grimes in fall 2025. This training will combine trauma- informed pedagogy with the visual politics of photography, drawing from thinkers including kimberly juanita brown, bell hooks, and shawn ginwright.