Michael Gill

Michael Gill came to print making as a writer. His poetry has been published in dozens of literary and other magazines, including Rolling Stone, and several chapbooks, which include The Atheist at Prayer (March Street Press, Greensboro, North Carolina) and The Solution to the Crisis is Revolution: Graffiti of Ecuador, collected and translated (Ox Head Press, Browerville, Minnesota). He began making books as a way to give stories to his children. He prints in the letterpress studios at the Morgan Conservatory and at Zygote Press. He has exhibited in solo shows at William Busta Gallery, BAYarts, Tregoning & Co., Massillon Museum, and William Busta Projects, and internationally at the Alte Feuerwasche Loschwitz Gallery during a residency at the Grafikwerkstatt in Dresden, Germany. His books are held in the Cleveland Public Library Special Collections, as well as in artist book collections of Baylor University, Fall River (MA) Public Library, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Columbus College of Art and Design, Otis College of Art and Design, the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Graffikwerkstatt Dresden (Germany) and Ediciones Vigia (Matanzas, Cuba), and in private collections in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. He is founder of Collective Arts Network, a nonprofit organization of galleries that publishes CAN Journal.