Improper Frames

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  • Art Show

A Cleveland Print Room exhibition presented in partnership with the Cleveland Museum of Art

Saturday, February 14–Sunday, May 10, 2026
Location: Transformer Station
Open Thursday–Saturday, 3:00–6:00 p.m.
Free; No Ticket Required
A photo collage where a group of people sitting is cut out of a black and white photo and placed over a color image of a grassy area with flowers and a house in the background. A smaller rectangle to the right of the photo collage is a black and white photo with a cut out of the group of people.

Leisure, part of They Danced on This Land, 2025. Da’Shaunae Marisa. Courtesy of the artist

About The Event

Improper Frames brings together artists and photographers working through Cleveland’s internal boundaries, partial views, and shifting frames. Their works present material and visual evidence contending with the city’s recently completed property inventory. This exhaustive survey is used to classify and evaluate parcels and buildings, quietly reshaping how Cleveland narrates its future blocks, neighborhoods, and thresholds. Across Improper Frames, trees defy property lines, photographic assemblies gather displaced stories, dust builds an index inside a home, and improvised architectures point to fragmented forms the property survey does not account for. Organized by Cleveland Print Room and curated by Theodossis Issaias, the exhibition features artists Amber Ford, Jon Gott, Michael Indriolo, Da’Shaunae Marisa, Vivica Satterwhite, and Alejandro Vergara, whose projects develop through sustained work across the city’s shifting terrain.