CV
Curriculum Vitae
Amirah Cunningham
Amirahcunningham@yahoo.com
Education
2023 MFA, Print Media and Photography, Kent, OH
2018 BFA, Drawing, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2018 BFA, Printmaking, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Academic Appointments and Work experience
2024-25 Assistant Director of First Year Student Success, Cleveland Institute of Art, OH
2023-24 Admissions counselor, Cleveland Institute of Art, OH
2023 Adjust Professor, 2D design, Kent State University, OH
2023 Adjust professor, Observational drawing, Cleveland Institute of art
2021- 23 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Kent State University, Kent, OH (course taught: Introduction to Printmaking [instructor of record], Fall 2021 and Spring 2022, Fall 2022 and Spring 2023)
Awards/Grants/Fellowships
2025 Studio Teaching Assistantship, Reductive Print workshop, Penland school of Craft, NC ($3,000)
2024 Artist Appreciation Fund, Vargas Foundation, Cleveland, OH ($600)
2023 Anthony Bartholomew Award, Kent State University, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH($500)
2021 Thomas D Little Prize, Kent State University, Kent, OH ($1000)
2019 Sponsored Coursework Award, International Print Center of New York (IPCNY), New York City, New York ($750)
2016 Empower Challenge Scholarship($500)
2014 - 18 Cleveland Institute of Art Scholastics Award($30,000)
2014 Scholastics Gold Key
Artist Residencies
2023 Anthony Bartholomew Residency, ,Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Magical Bodies – Those Who See and Those Who Don’t, MFA Thesis Exhibition, CVA Gallery, Kent, Ohio
Collaborative Projects
2021 A Tradition co curated by Alex Anthes, Brittany Gorelick, Amirah Cunningham and J Leigh, Garcia, Summit Art Space, Akron, OH.
Group Exhibitions
2023 Fresh Pressed, Asterisk Coffee Bar, Cuyahoga Falls, OH. (invited by Taryn McMahon and Micah Kraus).
2022 Reciprocity: KSU Print Media, The William J. and Pearl F. Lemmon Visiting Artist Gallery, Kent State University Stark Campus, Stark, OH.
2022 Exploring Dialogues between Diverse Voices and Spaces, Center for Visual Arts, Kent State University, Kent, OH.
2022 Change is God, Soo visual arts center, Minneapolis, MI
2021 Printers Select, Heights Arts, Cleveland, OH
2021 Cross generations; bridging the gap of artists, Museum of creative human art x The Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH
2021 New Beginnings, Waterloo arts, Cleveland, OH
2019 UMBRA: New Prints for a Dark Age, International Print Center of New York, NYC (Selected by 2019/Summer artist-juror Alison Saar)
2019 Printmaking as Resistance, Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH
2018 BLCK______AGGIN, Thesis Exhibition, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2017 The Fine Print, Gallery 1 Point 618, Cleveland, OH
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Threshold, Drawn to paint, The yards project, Cleveland, OH
2021 Sonata No. 6, Survival kit, Cleveland, OH
2019 What Goes Up…, Waterloo Arts Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2019 WHOA, BAYarts Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Exchange Portfolio
2022 Through the Narrative (curated by Maggie Denk Leigh, Artist)
Professional Activities
2025 Curator, The Bake Shop, Cleveland, OH
2025 Studio Teaching assistantship, Penland school of Craft, North Carolina
2023 Artist Panel at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Painting & Drawing dept., Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2022 BIG INK, Large Scale Woodblock Printing, Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, OH.
2018 Co Instructor, CCJDC, Cleveland, OH
2017 Co Instructor, Drawing Beyond the Pencil, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2016 Co Instructor, Drawing Beyond the Pencil, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Bibliography
2023 "In Our Skin Black Scholars & Artists Inaugural Black History Month Exhibition." Cleveland Institute of Art. https://www.cia.edu/events/2023/02/in-our-skin.
2022 "Through the Narrative." Mapc22.Com. https://www.mapc2022.com/through-the-narrative.
2022 Staff, Racket . "Freeloader Friday: 69 Free Things To Do This Weekend." Racket, (2024). Accessed June 10, https://racketmn.com/freeloader-friday-69-free-things-to-do-this-weekend.
2022 "Amirah Cunningham." Soo Visual Arts Center. July 15, 2022. Video, https://youtu.be/aIyxt4iHMwY.
2021 A TRADITION: KENT STATE PRINT MEDIA, Summit art spacehttp://canjournal.org/2021/11/cross-pollenating-abstraction-sonata-no-6-project-at-survival-kit/.
2021 "Sonata #6 - Amirah Cunningham." Ryan Charles Ramer. November 18, 2021. Video, https://youtu.be/V1okmlHRqkE.
2021 "Living Figuratively Episode 43 New Beginnings at Waterloo." Judy Takacs. January 21, 2021. Video, 0:17:43, https://youtu.be/mF-dNaoZdRE.
2020 "Link Magazine - Summer 2020." ISSUU. Cleveland Institute of Art, August 19, 2020. https://issuu.com/ciacollege/docs/19-20_ia_link_summer_aug6/3.
2019 "2019/Summer New Prints Artist Development Awardees" Print center New York
Online Periodicals
2022 "Change Is God-Take Root Among the Stars: Black Abstraction in the Midwest." SOO Visual Arts Center. https://www.soovac.org/take-root-among-the-stars.
2021 Gill, Michael. "CROSS-POLLENATING ABSTRACTION: SONATA NO. 6 PROJECT AT SURVIVAL KIT." Can Journal, (2021). Accessed August 23, 2021.
2019 "Printmaking and Propaganda.” By Joseph Clark, April 17, 2019
Technical Abilities
2021 - 2023 Print shop Technician (Organization and Inventory, safety knowledge of a variety of equipment, professional print advisor for students)