Jean-Marie Papoi
Digital Producer, Arts & CultureExpertise: Video production, photography, social media and fine arts
Education: Kent State University - Bachelor of Science, broadcast journalism, studio art, art history
Favorite spot in Northeast Ohio: Astoria Cafe & Market
Experience:
Jean-Marie Papoi began her career in public media as an associate producer with South Carolina Educational Television (SCETV) in Beaufort, South Carolina. After traveling back to her hometown of Akron, she worked as a videographer and editor for Mosher Media, a production company serving the Cleveland/Akron area. An opportunity later emerged to join the Creative Services team at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, where she further developed skills in the corporate realm. She returned to public media in 2016 by becoming part of the 精东影业 family.
Highlights:
- 2025 Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, Best Videographer in Ohio
- 2025 Press Club of Cleveland, Ohio Excellence in Journalism, First Place: Arts & Entertainment - Ernest Warther Museum woodcarvings are a Tuscarawas County treasure
- 2025 Press Club of Cleveland, Ohio Excellence in Journalism, First Place: Feature Videography - Hope through decay: Ohio artists document places reclaimed by nature
- 2025 Press Club of Cleveland, Ohio Excellence in Journalism, Second Place: History - A century later, Lorain remembers resiliency after 1924 tornado
- 2024 National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Central Great Lakes Chapter Emmy Award - A forgotten children's book by Langston Hughes and Elmer W. Brown emerges in Cleveland
- 2024 Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, Best Videographer in Ohio
- 2024 Press Club of Cleveland, Ohio Excellence in Journalism, Best Photojournalist (Video) in Ohio
- 2024 Press Club of Cleveland, Ohio Excellence in Journalism, First Place: History - A historic Cleveland bridge remains suspended in time
- 2024 Press Club of Cleveland, Ohio Excellence in Journalism, First Place: Arts & Entertainment - In this small Ohio town, troll dolls outnumber people
- 2023 National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Central Great Lakes Chapter Emmy Award - How Ohio breweries and artists use beer cans as their canvas
- 2023 Press Club of Cleveland, Ohio Excellence in Journalism, First Place: Human Interest - How Ohio breweries and artists use beer cans as their canvas
- 2022 Press Club of Cleveland, First Place: Feature Photography - Making It: Bissell Maple Farm Brings Syrup From Tree To Table
- 2021 Press Club of Cleveland, First Place: Feature Photography - Making It: Healthy Vegetables At Home From The Chef鈥檚 Garden
- 2020 Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, Best Business Reporting - 鈥淢aking It鈥�
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Indigenous Canadian painter Kent Monkman challenges audiences at the Akron Art Museum with his retrospective exhibit, "History is Painted by the Victors."
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Once occupying the corner of South High and East Bowery streets in Downtown Akron, the Akron Armory was the city鈥檚 epicenter of entertainment for decades.
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The 50th festival is trying a split-venue format that goes back to CIFF's original home, from 1977-90. -
The creative exchange between 脡douard Manet and Berthe Morisot is on view at the museum through July 5.
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Silent films get the symphonic treatment in Huron while a restored steam engine gets back on the tracks in Sugarcreek. -
The Western Reserve Photographic Society explores the beauty of the Buckeye State for 鈥淧icture This! A Road Trip Through Ohio鈥� at Penitentiary Glen Reservation in Kirtland.
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The Olney Art Gallery opened its doors in 1893 and became Cleveland's first publicly-accessible art space, predating the Cleveland Museum of Art by more than two decades.
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After retiring from a long career teaching sculpture at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Kim Bissett set out on a different path 鈥� one with deep connections to her family's history. -
A photography exhibit illustrates the splendors of Ohio, an orchestra pays tribute to a beloved crooner and it鈥檚 time to get out the green for St. Patrick鈥檚 Day. -
Six area artists document the human experience in Cleveland's shifting neighborhoods for the exhibition "Improper Frames," on view through May at Transformer Station.
