Claudio Orso Giacone
outclod@gmail.com
claudioorso.com
Education
Master of Fine Arts, 2006, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
Bachelor of Arts, 2003, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Mesa Community College, San Diego CA, 1998-2000.
University of Torino, Italy 1983-85.
Proficiency Degree in Commercial Correspondence, London Chamber of Commerce, 1980.
Recent Shows
Relieving, Tinneman Lofts, Cleveland OH, fall 2025;
Blanco y Negro en Colores, Centro Cultural El Cantaro, Buenos Aires (Argentina), May 2025;
Prints Kuroshio, Tainan Art Museum, Taiwan, 2024;
From Woodblock to Inkjet, Fawick Gallery BWU, Berea OH, 2024;
The First Cut Is The Deepest, Laboratorio Xilografico, Porto Torres (Italy), 2024;
Northeast Ohio Print Invitational, Fawick Gallery BWU, Berea OH, 2023;
La Carta Canta, Praxis Fiber Workshop, Cleveland OH, 2023;
Ottomani, Studio Dettori, Porto Torres (Italy), 2023;
Surface Impressions, Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln NE, 2022; Figurative/Abstract, Heights Arts, Cleveland Heights OH, 2022;
Five Uneasy Pieces, and a Careerful of Proofs, Project Gallery @BayArts, Bay Village OH, 2021;
Making Home, Current Gallery, Cleveland OH, 2021;
ReFuge: the Last Days of Wonder, Wasmer Gallery, Pepper Pike OH, 2021;
Open Yards II, Tinneman Lofts, Cleveland OH, 2021;
Biennale di Grafica Contemporanea, Associazione Donati, Perugia (Italy), 2020;
Panta Rhei, Bostwick Design Arts Initiative, Cleveland OH, 2020;
Fabulism: Meta-facts and Fiction, YARDS Project, Cleveland OH, 2019;
Pulled in Brooklyn, International Print Center, New York NY, 2019;
Relief Therapy, Hedge Gallery, Cleveland OH, 2019;
Know-How, Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland OH, 2018;
CAN Triennial, 78th Street Studios, Cleveland OH, 2018;
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here: Transcendent Hope, City College, San Francisco CA, 2017;
Legacy: Lorain County Printmakers, Stocker Art Gallery, Elyria OH 2017;
Retrospective, The Lyceum, Oberlin OH, 2017;
The Artist’s Trust, MOCA, Cleveland OH, 2017;
In Defense of Democracy, SBCAST Santa Barbara CA, 2017;
Tinsel in the Hands of the Angels, ATX Los Angeles CA, 2016;
Omaggio a Gozzano, Castello Ducale di Aglié, ITALY, 2016;
Invisible Cities, Constellation Studios, Lincoln NE, 2016;
PrintShow&Tell, Teton ArtLab, Jackson WY, 2016;
Campionario, Bunnell Street Art Center, Homer AK, 2016;
Juntos, Stocker Art Gallery, Elyria OH 2015;
Tavola Lunga, Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland OH, 2015;
Memeography, Zygote Press, Cleveland OH, 2015;
Rooms to Let, Slavic Village, Cleveland OH, 2014-15;
Presence, Traveling Portfolio, and Baghdad Library Collection, 2014;
OH, Letterpress! , Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland OH 2014;
Master Peter’s Puppet Theater, Midland Theater, Newark OH 2014;
Work Experience
Art Education:
· Art Instructor Broadway School of Music and Arts, 2005~present;
· Art Instructor, Art House, Cleveland 2009~2020;
· Art Instructor, Center for Arts-inspired Learning, 2019~present;
· Featured artist (2017, 2024) and outreach artist (2018, 2019, 2021), Parade The Circle, Cleveland Museum of Art;
· Morgan Art of Papermaking, Artist in Residence, Cleveland, 2008-09; printmaking and outreach papermaking instructor; NEA Artist Apprenticeship Program;
· Managing director and outreach coordinator for Apollo Outreach Initiative, Cinema Studies Program, Oberlin College, 2008~18;
· Figure Drawing Instructor of Record, Bowling Green University, 2005-06;
· Adjunct Faculty Ceramics, Lorain County Community College, 2003-04;
· Lecturer/workshop teacher for Oberlin College: Letterpress Winter Term, 2012-14; Susan Umbenhour, 2007; Sarah Schuster, 2006 and 2003; Woodblock Printing Winter Term Workshop, 2004; Nanette Yannuzzi-Macias, 2002;
· Artist in residence with Ohio KidSmArt Program: atelierista and coordinator for Art Practice and Family Arts Festivals (pre-K to Elementary level); workshops with Diamond Child School (Avon, OH) and Horizon Centers (Elyria, Lorain, OH), and Linden School, Elyria, 2001;
· Reggio Emilia Study Group for the Ohio Board of Education, 2001;
· Broadway School of Music Zygote Press outreach program at Fullerton Elementary School, Slavic Village, Cleveland OH; Firelands Schools Art Camp, summer 2002;
· Art projects with Eastwood Elementary in Oberlin (Elements of Art), Saint Thomas in Sheffield (Creative Practices), Pathways Enrichment in Lorain (Arts outreach), Diamond Child in Avon (Reggio Emilia-oriented atelierista), 2003;
· Oberlin Big Parade, initiator and advisor, float builder and coordinator, graphic designer, 2001-18.
Zygote Press Master Printer: Alfonso Fernandez (2000), Franziska Lehonardi (2008), Giancarlo Calicchia (2015);
Illustration, Apuleius And Africa, Routledge 2014; Gift, Peter Wawerzinek, Oberlin 2014; Quarter After Eight #26, OU Press, 2021.
Panelist, Controversial Art and Public Display, Oberlin Public Library, Oberlin OH, 2007;
Street Artist/Painter, Oberlin Chalkwalk 2007, 2012, 2014, 2015;
Artist Assistant/Translator/Edition printer: Graphic artist Alfonso Fernandez (Chile), visiting artist at Zygote Press, Ohio Arts Council Grant, 2000.
Screenwriter: The Settler, directed by Rian Brown, San Diego, 2000.
Translator and artist assistant: Marlon De Azambuja, FRONT Triennial, Cleveland OH, 2017; Diego Esposito, UCSD Mandeville Gallery Show, 1999.
Artist Assistant: Sculptor/Painter Italo Scanga, San Diego (CA), 1998-2000.
Artist Assistant: Sculptor Laura Payne-Smith, Norwell (MA), 1993-1996.
Music advisor: Top Music (Torino), Harmony (Firenze), 1986-92.
Jewelry maker: Atelier of Roxana Velasquez Ojeda and Paco Cruz (San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico),1993.
Awards and Grants
OAC Traditional Arts Apprenticeship, Balbo Studios, 2024~25;
NEA Apprenticeship Grant, at Morgan Conservatory, 2019.
Reimagining Youth, Rauschenberg Foundation, 2017;
Teach Arts Ohio, OAC-Zygote Press at T. Jefferson Welcome Academy, 2017;
Nord Family Foundation Development Grant for the Artzreach Project, 2006.
Nord Family Foundation Development Grant for the Artzreach Project, 2005.
Richard Hallock Foundation Library Grant for the Artzreach Project, 2005.
Nord Family Foundation Support Grant for the Artzreach Project, 2004.
Individual Artist Fellowship Grant from the Ohio Arts Council, 2004.
Travels/Residences
Teton ArtLab, Jackson Hole WY, 2017 and 2016;
Rasmuson Art Foundation, Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer AK, 2016;
Paper and Book Intensive 2015, Oxbow Foundation, Saugatauk MI;
Morgan West, Papermaking with Noxious Weeds, Virginia City MT, 2013;
Dresden Graphic Workshop, Germany, Ohio Arts Council Exchange Program, 2007;
Bou-Saada, Algeria: Biennial of Mediterranean Young Artists, Conference 1990.
Press
Michael Gill, Go Big: Claudio Orso’s Panta Rhei, CAN Journal Blog, March 2020. http://canjournal.org/2020/03/go-big-claudio-orsos-panta-rhei/
DeOreo and Polletta, Italian Artist Claudio Orso Explores Cleveland Immigrant Experience, WCPN Ideastream, February 2020, https://www.ideastream.org/news/italian-artist-claudio-orso-explores-cleveland-immigrant-experience
Von Schneider-Lanza, Claudio Orso's Relief Therapy Marries the Decorative and Fine Arts, Cleveland Scene, 20 March 2019, https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/claudio-orsos-relief-therapy-marries-the-decorative-and-fine-arts/Content?oid=29769135
Armstrong, Bunnell Artist in Residency Brings Poetic Sensibility, Homer News, October 2016,
https://www.homernews.com/life/bunnell-artist-in-residence-brings-poetic-sensibility/
Michael Gill, A Slice of a Tree: Negotiating Woodblock Prints with Claudio Orso, CAN Journal, Summer 2015.