Bio
MFA 2005 University of Cincinnati; College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning; School of Art
BFA 2000 Art Academy of Cincinnati
Jenny Roesel Ustick is an artist and educator from Cincinnati, Ohio, and teaches at the University of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky University. She has just completed a three-year appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. Before moving north in 2008, Jenny taught at a number of universities in and around Cincinnati, including Miami University Hamilton, University of Cincinnati, and Northern Kentucky University. Drawing is at the center of her artistic practice and teaching, and she has taught several levels of it to students with wide-ranging skills, from Foundations to Graduate level. She has taught extensively in Studio Foundations, including 2D Design, Color Theory, 3D Design/Foundations Sculpture. Other instruction includes Painting and Art Appreciation. She has returned to Cincinnati to make art and continue teaching.
In addition to mentoring at the University level, Jenny has completed several projects with ArtWorks, a nationally-recognized non-profit arts organization in Cincinnati, Ohio offering apprenticeship to teens and young adults. To date, Jenny has served as Project Manager and Lead Artist on four large public murals around Cincinnati, and looks forward to covering many walls in the years to come.
Jenny's artistic practice is quite diverse, ranging from drawing and painting to sculpture and fibers. She is part of two related collaborative groups, Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running (with Denise Burge and Lisa Siders), and Black Forest Project (Denise Burge, Lisa Siders, and Tracy Featherstone), with whom she has worked on video, animation, sound/music, sculpture, and installations. Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running opened an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio on April 22, 2011. All the above members worked together on The Dozens: Multiply, shown at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland in 2006.
In March of 2011, Jenny became a founding member of the Bombshells of Cincinnati, a yarn bombing collective. In their first year, the Bombshells dropped the largest yarn bomb on record, an event called Bomb Central, where six city blocks of greenspace, a city bus, and some surrounding architecture were blanketed with fiber art. The Bombshells also bombed the front of the Contemporary Arts Center for their annual gala, juxtaposing graphic fiber art against the backdrop of Shepard Fairey's mural of Patti Smith from his Supply and Demand exhibition--calling it Fluffy Fairey. The Bombshells unveiled another museum installation on February 11, 2012 in the Great Hall at the Cincinnati Art Museum called Truly, Newly (Fiber) Chihuly, in answer to the glass artist's permanent sculpture in the CAM's collection. Much more is yet to come...
BFA 2000 Art Academy of Cincinnati
Jenny Roesel Ustick is an artist and educator from Cincinnati, Ohio, and teaches at the University of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky University. She has just completed a three-year appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. Before moving north in 2008, Jenny taught at a number of universities in and around Cincinnati, including Miami University Hamilton, University of Cincinnati, and Northern Kentucky University. Drawing is at the center of her artistic practice and teaching, and she has taught several levels of it to students with wide-ranging skills, from Foundations to Graduate level. She has taught extensively in Studio Foundations, including 2D Design, Color Theory, 3D Design/Foundations Sculpture. Other instruction includes Painting and Art Appreciation. She has returned to Cincinnati to make art and continue teaching.
In addition to mentoring at the University level, Jenny has completed several projects with ArtWorks, a nationally-recognized non-profit arts organization in Cincinnati, Ohio offering apprenticeship to teens and young adults. To date, Jenny has served as Project Manager and Lead Artist on four large public murals around Cincinnati, and looks forward to covering many walls in the years to come.
Jenny's artistic practice is quite diverse, ranging from drawing and painting to sculpture and fibers. She is part of two related collaborative groups, Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running (with Denise Burge and Lisa Siders), and Black Forest Project (Denise Burge, Lisa Siders, and Tracy Featherstone), with whom she has worked on video, animation, sound/music, sculpture, and installations. Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running opened an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio on April 22, 2011. All the above members worked together on The Dozens: Multiply, shown at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland in 2006.
In March of 2011, Jenny became a founding member of the Bombshells of Cincinnati, a yarn bombing collective. In their first year, the Bombshells dropped the largest yarn bomb on record, an event called Bomb Central, where six city blocks of greenspace, a city bus, and some surrounding architecture were blanketed with fiber art. The Bombshells also bombed the front of the Contemporary Arts Center for their annual gala, juxtaposing graphic fiber art against the backdrop of Shepard Fairey's mural of Patti Smith from his Supply and Demand exhibition--calling it Fluffy Fairey. The Bombshells unveiled another museum installation on February 11, 2012 in the Great Hall at the Cincinnati Art Museum called Truly, Newly (Fiber) Chihuly, in answer to the glass artist's permanent sculpture in the CAM's collection. Much more is yet to come...
