Print Media & Collage

56.5”W x 42”L

2026

When I was 20, five other Kent State art students and I rented a little studio for $50 each a month. We called it Gallery 425. It became our studios and our gallery after the university turned its space into a computer lab.

I remember working there late into the night, completely in love with making art. Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians were always playing. I felt like I had finally arrived.

Forty years later, I still feel that same swell of love when I walk into my studio and get lost in the waltz of being an artist.

Recently, I learned that the Old Bohemians were a pioneering group of 19th-century artists and intellectuals who gathered in downtown Cleveland. Later came the Brush and Palette Club and the Kokoon Arts Club, carrying that creative spirit forward.

What a sweet surprise—to discover that the energy I fell in love with at 20 has deep roots here, and that somehow, all these years later, I’m still dancing with it.