Deep Dive Invitational Residency

Since opening Deep Dive Art Projects to the public in 2021, I have sponsored long-term artist residencies with 5 Cleveland artists. The artist is invited to create a body of print-based artworks over the course of 3-6 months. Artists are chosen who specifically do not have printmaking experience, and who are interested in expanding their practice and learning new techniques that could enhance their current media. After the residency, the artwork will be premiered at the Deep End Gallery and available afterwards for purchase online and in the racks at the studio. The residency is free for the participating artist.

Nikki Woods

Nikki Woods is a painter and director of the Reinberger Gallery of the Cleveland Institute of Art. Woods was invited to explore printmaking at the Deep End in January 2021, producing a body of beautiful monoprints. These ethereal prints bridge her painting practice with the elements revealed through deep experimentation in printmaking. Developing images with layers built with a lush and saturated palette, Woods' prints are both atmospheric and energized.

As a painter, Woods’ work has been exhibited in numerous regional exhibitions and is represented in the prominent collections such as the Progressive Insurance Art Collection, MetroHealth Hospital Collection, and the Cleveland Arts Association (CARTA). She holds a BFA in painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art and is currently represented by Hedge Gallery (Cleveland, OH).

Davon Brantley

Davon Brantley is a Cleveland based multimedia artist whose work uses self-portrature and psychology to explore life, death, sexuality, masculinity and race. In Familiar Faces Brantley uses these themes to interrogate the connections between dissociative behaviors that happen because of traumatic experiences and the repetition involved with these experiences. By experimenting with a set matrix and the concept of multiples that is inherent in printmaking, Brantley develops an intriguing interior dialogue in this group of unique works.

Brantley has exhibited and curated work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Derek Hess Gallery, CAN Triennial, Morgan Conservatory, Indianapolis Arts Center, Bay Arts, and the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve. In 2024, the Cleveland Art Association (CARTA), awarded him the Eterovich Award, which is presented to exceptional emerging artists with works in CARTA’s collection.

Amani Williams

Amani Williams is a drawer and painter who works in Brooklyn, NY. Williams uses her work to disrupt cultural norms and look more deeply at  human behavior. Her residency at Deep Dive produced the body of work Coming at You, Red Hot and Full of Desire. Inspired by traditional pin-up imagery, Williams takes the heterosexual teasing of the model’s gaze and turns it on its head. To Williams, “the pin-up embodies servitude and compromise to achieve a fantasy geared towards cis straight American men, and presents a promise of false access to a ‘woman’ built off the American Dream and the trauma of two World Wars.” 

A graduate from the Cleveland Institute of Art, her work has been exhibited in shows at Derek Hess Gallery, Waterloo Arts, Reinberger Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, and the Morgan Conservatory. She has been featured in CAN Journal, Canvas Magazine, and Link Magazine.

Theadis Reagins

Theadis Reagins is a painter and printmaker whose works uses imagery of congregating and rhetorical figures as a meditation between the mundane and symbolic space. His solo exhibition at Deep Dive, More Gifts, uses canvas and paper to highlight the roles of presence, the idea of displacement and phenomenon, and the roads we travel in discovery of an epiphany.

Reagins graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2026. His work has been shown in group exhibitions at the Morgan Conservatory, Zygote Press, Kent State University, Ashtabula Art Center, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and the Prizm Art Fair in Miami, FL. He is a recipient of the 2022 Eterovich Award from the Cleveland Art Association (CARTA), and the 2023 Charles Sallée Award.

Antwoine Washington

Antwoine Washington is an artist living and working in Cleveland, OH. Washington started his residency at the Deep Dive in 2024, and used his experience as a first-time printmaker to  explore the abstraction of figurative and allegorical themes. The results show work in progress, exposing the transitions that exist within the act of printmaking, revealing the progression of images and ideas that take place at the press.

Washington was born in Pontiac, MI, and received a BA in Studio Art from Southern University and A&M College Baton Rouge, LA. In 2018, after moving to Cleveland to pursue his dream of making art,  Washington suffered a stroke and found that his art-making assisted in his recovery, helping him to get through panic attacks and the numbness in his body. He has exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, and the Cincinnati Art Museum. He has been commissioned for murals at MetroHealth Hospital, Cleveland Public Square, and the Cleveland Walls International Mural Festival. He is also the founder of the nonprofit Museum of Creative Human Art.