Margaret Collins is a printmaker/painter from Cleveland, Ohio. She worked as a graphic designer for American Greetings while maintaining a studio in the Alcoa Aluminum building shared with artist Marvin Smith, Dan Chrzanowski and Joy Sweeney. From there the studio went to a building in “Bird Town” at Dowd and Thrush. In 1990 the studio moved to The Lake Erie Screw Building in Lakewood Ohio where she fell in love with printmaking. The Lake Erie Screw Building, now know as The Screw Building, is home too many local artist.

Growing up in the city of Cleveland, Margaret had access to the Metro Parks and Lake Erie beaches which influenced her love of nature and the importance of preserving and improving our environment. Her images are inspired by nature, people and city life. Her work covers a range of styles from realistic to pushing shapes of color in abstraction.

Margaret’s work resides in the permanent collection of American Greetings Corporation, Lamson Sessions, University Hospital, Hospice of the Western Reserve, Lutheran Hospital, the Morgan Consevatory along with individual collectors.

Mrs. Collins studied at Cooper School of Art in Cleveland, the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Baldwin Wallace College and the Cleveland Institute of Art. Margaret is also a member of Zygote Press where she works in a green print environment and a member of the Artist Archive of the Western Reserve. Margaret has a studio in her home along with a print facility.

Her work has been exhibited in juried shows and Galleries throughout the Cleveland area and Youngstown. The shows including:

  • The Yards Project at Worthington Yard’s “The Series and the Multiples” The Object of Stone.

  • Metro Hospital “Women that Print”.

  • The Butler Institute of American Art 85th National Midyear Show

  • Artist Archive of the Western Reserve

  • American Greetings Fine Art Shows.

  • BayArts shows 2022, 2021, 2019.

  • The Jewish Community Center 34th Annual.

  • The Beck Center Proscenium,

  • “Bridges and Botanicals” Irving Stone Gallery at American Greetings

  • Artist Trust Project at MOCA “Cuyahoga County Artist Self Portraits Show”.

Awards: American Greetings Juror’s Award, American Greetings Honorable Mention, Beck Center Proscenium and The 34th annual Jewish Community Center Art Show Framart Award, given to her by Ellen H Johnson.


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