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 Teaching Experience

2021- 2023        Graduate Teaching Assistant, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio (course taught: Introduction to Printmaking [instructor of record], Fall 2021 and Spring 2022, Fall 2022 and Spring 2023) 

Awards/Grants/Fellowships 

2021                   Thomas D Little Prize, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2019                   Sponsored Course Work Award, IPCNY New Prints Program  
2016                   Empower Challenge Scholarship
2014 - 2018        Cleveland Institute of Art Scholastics Award 
2014                   Scholastics Gold Key

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 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

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 )  
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