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Karen D. Beckwith - Artist, Printmaker, Master Printer

Portrait of smiling Karen Beckwith, Tamarind certified Master Printmaker and professional Fine Art Printmaker, wearing blue overalls and standing in front of wooden print drawers.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

1998-Present Professional Artist & Printmaker, K2 Art Studio/Ping Pong Press, Cleveland, OH

2005-2017 Master Printer, Technical Specialist, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

1997-1998 Tamarind Master Printer Fellow, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM

1996-1997 Tamarind Printer Training Program, Student, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM

1991-1996 Assistant Studio Director, Hamilton Press, Cleveland, OH

1989-1994 Production Coordinator and Creative Advisor, Hamilton Arts Rubber Stamp Co., Cleveland, OH

1987 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

Repurposed window with a fine art screenprint containing an image of a burned out car, by Karen Beckwith.

SELECT PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH

BF Goodrich Corporation, Raleigh, NC

Canson-Talens Inc., South Hadley, MA

Cleveland Art Association, Cleveland, OH

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Colliers Cleveland, Cleveland, OH

Columbia College, Chicago, IL

Glidden House, Cleveland, OH

Instituto Chileno Norteamericano, Santiago, Chile

LGBT Center, Cleveland, OH

Mid America Print Council

Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH

Southern Graphics Council, Statesboro, GA

Tainan Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan

Tamarind Institute of Lithography, Albuquerque, NM

TransDigm Group Inc., Cleveland, OH

University Hospitals Art Collection, Cleveland, OH

Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH

Fine art silkscreen print of urban street scene with water tower, by award winning printmaker Karen Beckwith.

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

2026 4th Annual Mini Gems, Society of American Graphic Artists, New York NY

2026 18 Squared Mini Print & Ex-Libris Exhibition, Brain Boo, Chiayi City, Taiwan

2026 Artpass Members’ Exhibition, Spaces, Cleveland OH

2026 Exhibition of Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty & Alumni, Museum of American Porcelain Art, Euclid OH

2026 Lake Effect: Artists From Cleveland Now, Cleveland Museum of Art / Transformer Station, Cleveland OH

2025 Remnants - Solo Exhibition, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland OH

2024 Prints Kuroshio, Tainan Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan

2024 The Beauty and Influence of Appalachia, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH

2024 Third Annual Mini Gems, Society for American Graphic Artists, New York City, NY

2023-24 New Masters 3: Women Artists of Northeast Ohio, Florence O’Donnell Wasmer Gallery, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, OH

2023 The New Now Annual Exhibition, Tri-C Gallery East, Highland Hills, OH

2023 Artist In Residence Exhibition, Morgan Paper Conservancy, Cleveland, OH

2023 Trace Evidence: Observations of Place,Solo Show, Bay Arts, Bay Village, OH

2022 IPC International Mini Print Exhibition,NTNU Teh-Chen Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2022 Kinmen International Print Exhibition, Kinmen, Taiwan

2022 Print Out Times - 2022 Taoyuan International Print Exhibition, Taoyuan Arts Center, Taiwan

2022 Women Who Print, Future Ink Graphics, Cleveland, OH

2021 Evidence of Existence, Two Woman Show, Hedge Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2021 The III International Triennial of Contemporary Graphics, Novosibirsk, Russia

2020 Members Exhibition, Artists Archive of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH

2018 Ramparts, W78 Street Studios, Cleveland, OH

2017 Waterloo Arts, Arts Collinwood, Cleveland, OH

2016 From The Ground Up, Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH

2016 Re/Unite Archive Show, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH

2015 ReDefine, Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH

2013 Banshee Press Exhibition, Denver, CO

2011 Bay Arts Essentials Annual Spring Show, Bay Village, OH

2011 Morgan Conservatory Paper Bank Invitational Exhibition, Cleveland, OH

2011 Northeast Ohio Print Invitational, Fawick Gallery, Berea, OH

2010 Arts Quarter, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH

2010 Brand, Re-Brand, De-Brand?, University of Delaware/Philagraphika, Philadelphia, PA

2009 Monumental Idea, Miniature Book, 3 Year International Travelling Exhibition, Morgan Conservatory, Zhejiang Province – China, Edingurgh – Scotland, Granada – Spain, Savannah – GA, Chicago – IL, Athens – OH.

Karen Beckwith, Cleveland printmaker, using a printing press in a workshop. She wears glasses and an apron, with printmaking supplies and equipment in the background.

NOTABLE COLLABORATIONS AS MASTER PRINTER

Karen has been the collaborating Master Printer for over twenty professional artists. The artistic products of these collaborations are in private and corporate collections across the Unites States.

CLINTON ADAMS, Printmaker, Albuquerque, NM

BETH CAMPBELL, Sculptor, New York, NY

TONY FITZPATRICK, Printmaker, Chicago, IL

BETTY HAHN, Photographer, Albuquerque, NM

ROBERTO JUAREZ, Painter, New York, NY

SANDRA RAMOS, Painter/Printmaker, Miami, FL/Havana, Cuba

DOUG SANDERSON, Painter/Printmaker, Cleveland, OH