Liz Maugans

Liz Maugans is a Cleveland artist, curator and arts organizer. She directs YARDS Projects and curates the Dalad Collection at Worthington Yards in the Warehouse District, co-founded ART EverySpace, which places hyper-local art in Northeast Ohio properties, and teaches at Cleveland State University.

She co-founded Zygote Press, the nonprofit printmaking studio, and served as its executive director. She founded the Collective Arts Network and its quarterly CAN Journal, and the Artist Trust, an open registry connecting Cuyahoga County artists. She helped bring the Rooms-to-Let project to Slavic Village and chaired the community advisory committee for FRONT International. For more than twenty-five years she has organized exhibitions centered on emerging art, social justice and community building, and partnered with labor, health and neighborhood groups.

Maugans holds a BFA in printmaking from Kent State University and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work is in the Progressive Art Collection, the Cleveland Clinic and the Dalad Collection, and she is represented by HEDGE Gallery, which mounted her solo show LIFE IS BRUTIFUL in 2024. Her honors include an Ohio Arts Council fellowship, the Cleveland Arts Prize's Martha Joseph Prize and a Creative Workforce Fellowship.