Curriculum Vitae
Collaborative work with Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running: www.maidenprojects.com
Education
MFA in Painting, University of Cincinnati, 2005
BFA in Painting, Art Academy of Cincinnati, 2000
Selected Teaching
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Assistant Professor of Practice
Foundations Coordinator
Undergraduate Review Coordinator
Foundations Drawing Studio
Life Drawing
Senior Thesis Seminar
Foundations Surface Studio
Graduate Critique Seminar
Assistant Professor, Ann. Adj., 2011-12, 2014-15
Foundations 2D Co-coordinator 2014-15
Sophomore Review Coordinator 2014-15
Using Expressive Arts with Young Adult Cancer Patients and Survivors
Foundations Surface Studio
Foundations Drawing Studio
Drawing Studio 3 (quarters)
Life Drawing
Intermediate Drawing
Advanced/Post Bac/Graduate Drawing
Senior Thesis Seminar
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, 2012-14
Foundations Co-coordinator 2012-13
Sophomore Review Coordinator 2013-14
Art & Neighborhood Transformation
Using Expressive Arts with Young Adult Cancer Patients and Survivors
Special Studio: The Replicated Body, Mixed Media Approaches to the Purposeful Figure
Foundations Surface Studio
Foundations Time Studio
Foundations Space Studio
Intermediate Drawing
Senior Thesis Seminar
Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Adjunct Professor, Spring 2014
Painting IV: Contemporary Practices
Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, 2008-2011
Foundations Drawing I, II
Foundations: 2D Design
Color and Design
Life Drawing
ArtWorks, Cincinnati, Ohio
Project Manager
2016 Summer Apprenticeship Program, MuralWorks Walnut Hills Mural
2014 Summer Apprenticeship Program, MuralWorks Newport Aquarium Mural
Project Manager, Lead Artist
2015 Summer Apprenticeship Program, MuralWorks Over-the-Rhine Mural
2013 Summer Apprenticeship Program, MuralWorks Duke Energy Convention Center Mural
2012 Summer Apprenticeship Program, MuralWorks Court Street Mural
2011 Summer Apprenticeship Program, MuralWorks West End Mural
2010 Summer Apprenticeship Program, MuralWorks North Fairmount Mural
2009 Summer Apprenticeship Program, MuralWorks Clifton Heights Mural
2008 Summer Apprenticeship Program, MuralWorks Over-the-Rhine Mural
Teaching Artist
2006 Summer Apprenticeship Program, Sew Taft
2004 Summer Apprenticeship Program, City Seats
2003 Summer Apprenticeship Program, Hit Parade
Selected Scholarships, Fellowships, and Honors
2014 President’s Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Member Award, University of Cincinnati, 2013-14
2013-15 UC Forward Fellowship to develop and teach Using Expressive Arts with Young Adult Cancer Patients and Survivors in January 2014, University of Cincinnati
2007 Best In Show Award, The Dozens: Multiply, Juried Exhibition, Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA (film, The Dozens collaborative)
Juror’s Award for The Dozens: Multiply, Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
(film, The Dozens collaborative)
2004 Isabel Meta Wolfstein Traveling Fellowship, independent research and travel in Austria, The Czech Republic, Germany, and Poland 2003 – 2005 University of Cincinnati Full Graduate Fellowship and Graduate Assistantship
1998 Fischer Traditional Painting Continuing Scholarship, Art Academy of Cincinnati
1995 – 2000 BFA Continuing Scholarship, Art Academy of Cincinnati
Selected Public Art Commissions (Designed, Led, or Assisted)
Assisting Artist, ArtWorks MuralWorks 2016, Neil Armstrong (Designed and led by Eduardo Kobra and crew)
Project Manager, ArtWorks MuralWorks 2016, This is 5 Points, (Designed by Morag Meyerscough), Five Points Alley, Walnut Hills - Cincinnati
Assisting Artist, Refuge at Basel, 1 Hotel South Beach (Designed by Robert Lazzarini, led by Atalie Gagnet), commissioned by Architectural Digest for Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, Florida, November, 2015
Designer and Project Manager, ArtWorks MuralWorks 2015, Mr. Dynamite (James Brown), 1437 Main Street, Cincinnati, OH
Co-Designer, Clifton Neighborhood Association, Telford Plaza Mural, Spring/Summer 2014, Cincinnati, OH
Project Manager, ArtWorks MuralWorks 2014, (Designed by Rosalind Tallmadge), Newport Aquarium, Newport, KY
Designer and Project Manager, ArtWorks MuralWorks 2013, The Hands That Built Our City, 525 Elm Street, Cincinnati, OH
Design Consultant and Project Manager, ArtWorks MuralWorks 2012, Homecoming (Charley Harper, Designer), 119 E. Court Street, Cincinnati, OH
Project Manager, ArtWorks MuralWorks 2011, The Singing Mural (Designed by C.F. Payne), 1223 Central Parkway, Cincinnati, OH
Designer and Project Manager, ArtWorks MuralWorks 2010, All You Can Imagine is Real, 1515 Carll Street, Cincinnati, OH
Designer and Project Manager, ArtWorks MuralWorks 2009, Welcome to Clifton Heights, 2392 Wheeler Street, Cincinnati, OH
Designer and Project Manager, ArtWorks MuralWorks 2008, Over-the-Rhine: Into its Renaissance, 1519 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH
Selected Professional Service (Lectures, Critiques, Juries)
Visiting Artist Lecturer, School for the Creative and Performing Arts, December 2014
Guest Critic, Advanced Tutorial, Art Academy of Cincinnati, October 2014
Juror, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Southern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Southwest Indiana Region, January 2014
School of Art NASAD Review Gallery Exhibition Committee, University of Cincinnati, 2013-14
Faculty Innovation Council, University of Cincinnati, 2013-15
Alumni Panel, Senior Thesis Seminar, Art Academy of Cincinnati, November 2013
Guest Critic, Senior Critique Seminar, Art Academy of Cincinnati, October 2013
Guest Critic, Senior Critique Seminar, Art Academy of Cincinnati, October 2012
Scripps Teaching Artist for the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati; workshop based on the exhibition: Spectacle (CAC Cincinnati) with students at Lloyd Memorial High School in Erlanger, KY, April 2012
Installing Artist, Walkie Talkie Man (Michel Gondry) installation, part of Spectacle, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, March 2012
Mayerson Foundation Visiting Artist Lecturer (with Bombshells of Cincinnati) at the School for Creative and Performing Arts, Cincinnati, OH, March 2012
Guest Critic, Senior Critique Seminar, Art Academy of Cincinnati, February 2012
Selected Research, Exhibition and Screening Record
Papers, Presentations, and Lectures
"I Know Your Fear," presenter, FATE Conference, Kansas City, MO
“The Gazr in U: Casting Romantic Transmissions,” presenter, Society for Utopian Studies Annual Conference, Delta Montréal, Quebec, October 2014 “Shavasana Project for a Harmonist Farm…,” lecture (with Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running), University of Southern Indiana, Center for Communal Studies, Evansville, IN, March 2014
“Harmony in the New World,” presenter, Society for Utopian Studies Annual Conference, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, November 2013
“Bodies Shaping the Land, Land Shaping Bodies,” presenter, Earth Perfect? Nature, Utopia, and the Garden Symposium & Exhibitions, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, June 2013
Visiting Artist Lecturer, Current Arts Forum, Miami University at Oxford, OH, December 2011
Other Symposia and Conferences
FATE Regional Event {WV and surrounding states} 4D (Time) in Foundations, West Virginia Wesleyan College March 2016
Between the Discursive and the Immersive: A Symposium on Research in 21st Century Art Museums, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 3-4, 2015 (invited to present, declined to attend)
SculptureX Symposium 2015, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI (attended)
International Art Fairs and Film Festivals
2015 ArtPrize, Public Image: The Clothes Have No Emperor, DeVos Place Convention Center, Grand Rapids, MI, September 2015
Governor’s Island Art Fair, Organized by 4Heads Art Collective; Public Image: The Clothes Have No Emperor, Governors Island,New York, NY, September 2015
2014 ArtPrize, Metanoia: You Are Here, Ah-Nab-Awen Park, Grand Rapids, MI, September 2014
2006 Alternative Film/Video 2006, screening of The Dozens: Multiply, at the Academic Film Centre, Student City Cultural Centre (SCCC), New
Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, December 2006 http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org (film, The Dozens collaborative)
* The Dozens: Multiply, with Denise Burge, Tracy Featherstone, Elaine Lynch, Letitia Quesenberry, and Lisa Siders-Kinney, exhibited at the
Augustine’s Studio, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland, August 15-19 2006 (film, The Dozens collaborative)
(*Solo)
Museum
2016 Sisters of the Moon, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY, October 2016
Public Image: The Clothes Have No Emperor, 21C Museum Hotel, Cincinnati, OH, May 2016
2012 Collaborative Yarnbombing with JAFAgirls (of Yellow Springs, OH), to accompany the exhibition You Are My Superhero (Mark Newport),
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, September 2012 (Bombshells of Cincinnati)
Truly, Newly (Fiber) Chihuly, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, February 11, 2012 (Bombshells of Cincinnati)
2011 Fluffy Fairey, Contemporary Arts Center Gala, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 2011 (Bombshells of Cincinnati)
* Majr Gazr, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, April 2011 (MOTCBR collaborative
2010 82nd Regional Exhibition, juried, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, May 2010
2007 Juried Exhibition, featuring The Dozens: Multiply, Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA, June 2007 (film, The Dozens collaborative)
The Dozens: Multiply, screened as part of the Milestones series, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, March 2007 (film, The Dozens
collaborative)
(*Solo)
National
2016 Drawing Never Dies, RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO, July 2016
DRAWN, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH, May 2016
2014 Two Kinds of Funny, Atrium Gallery, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, January 2014
2013 Commissioned Yarnbombing for Vogue Knitting Live!, Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL, November 2013 (Bombshells of Cincinnati)
Two Kinds of Funny, Phaze 2 Gallery, Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV, October 2013
Two Kinds of Funny, Bloch Hall Gallery, Montevallo University, Montevallo, AL, September 2013
2012 Hyper-Real, Caladan Gallery, Cambridge, MA, April 2012
Two Kinds of Funny, Philip M. Meyers Jr. Memorial Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, November 2012
2011 * Black Forest Project, Fine Arts Gallery, St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX, November, 2011 (Black Forest Project collaborative)
Outside America, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, January 2011 (MOTCBR collaborative)
2008 Davis Feminist Film Festival, Veterans Memorial Theatre, Davis, CA, February 2008 (film, The Dozens collaborative)
Self-Evident: Contemporary American Self-Portraiture, juried, Claypool-Young Art Gallery, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY,
January 2008
I Love You, You Love Me, juried, Northern Kentucky University Art Gallery, Highland Heights, KY, February 2008
2007 Face Value, juried, Broward Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Davie, FL, November 2007
Vertical Hold, screening of I Am The Bomb from The Dozens: Multiply, Ellensburg Film Festival, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA, October 2007 (film, The Dozens collaborative)
Vernacular Spectacular, encore presentation by InLiquid, screening of I Am The Bomb from The Dozens: Multiply, International House Video
Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, September 2007 (film, The Dozens collaborative)
Juried Exhibition, featuring The Dozens: Multiply, Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA, June 2007 (film, The Dozens collaborative)
Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition, juror: Alex Baker of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Delaware Center for Contemporary Art,
Wilmington, DE, January 2007 (film, The Dozens collaborative)
2006 Vernacular Spectacular, screening of I Am The Bomb from The Dozens: Multiply, at the Society for Photographic Education’s MidAtlantic Film
Festival, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, November 2006 (film, The Dozens collaborative)
(*Solo)
Selected Regional
2016 *re:cloak, 1305 Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, January 2016
2015 With or Without Fashion, Boom Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, June 2015
Modern Makers: Materialis, Niehoff Urban Studio, Cincinnati, OH, March 2015
2014 *The gazr in U, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Southern Indiana, and Historic New Harmony, New Harmony, IN,
March 2014 (MOTCBR collaborative)
2013 Artspace Invitational, Historic Mercantile Lofts, Hamilton, OH, August 2013
Natur-alley: Observation, Representation, and Interpretation of Nature in Art, Park National Bank Art Gallery, University of Cincinnati
Clermont College, March 2013
Modern Makers: Textile Construct, Modern Makers, Cincinnati, OH, January 2013
2012 Autocomplete: A Contemporary Coloring Book Exhibit, Visionaries and Voices, Cincinnati, OH, May 2012
Kitchen Gallery, Park National Bank Art Gallery, University of Cincinnati Clermont College, May 2012
Object Imprint (MOTCBR collaborative), Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH, January 2012
2011 A Whole New World, Third Party Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, December 2011
She Said… inv., Appleton Gallery, Vern Riffe Center for the Arts, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, OH, October 2011
* Do You Know The Shape of Desire? (Black Forest Project Collaborative), Aisle Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, September 2011
Selections From the International Drawing Annual 6, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH, March 2011
2010 EXPOSED: Top 100 Artists of 2009, inv. ArtWorks Project Space, Cincinnati, OH, October 2010
Michigan Fine Arts Competition, juried, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI, April 2010
Colony (Black Forest Project and MOTCBR collaboratives), U-turn Art Space, Cincinnati, OH, January 2010
2009 DollBaby, Little/Gaines Artist Series featuring Kelli Burton, collaborative curator; screening Weekend at 3’s Lounge, Niles Gallery, Lucille Little
Fine Arts Library, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, September 2009 (sculpture; film, Love Ewe Films)
2007 Candy, Nicholas Gallery and Carteaux & Leslie joint exhibition, Cincinnati, OH, July 2007
Made In America, juried, juror: Charles A. Shepard III of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art; Pendleton Art Center, Rising Sun, IN, July 2007
Moving Pictures Series Selection, showing The Dozens: Multiply, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH,
April 2007 (film, The Dozens collaborative)
My Cincinnati, invitational, ArtWorks Time Warner Cable Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, April 2007
2006 Figuratively Speaking, ArtWorks Time Warner Cable Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, November 2006
S. O. S. Art Retrospective: Selections 2004-2005, invitational, University Galleries on Sycamore, Cincinnati, OH, June 2006
* Never Again, Carteaux & Leslie, Cincinnati, OH, February 2006
2005 * Projection of Living Space, Carteaux & Leslie, Cincinnati, OH, March 2005
(*Solo)
Performance
2015 trueBEAUTY, trueTHEATRE series, Jeffrey Groh and David Levy producers, Know Theatre, Cincinnati, OH, April 13, 2015
2014 trueVACATION, trueTHEATRE series, Jeffrey Groh and David Levy producers, Know Theatre, Cincinnati, OH, January 13, 2014
Published Writing
“Neither Created Nor Destroyed.” The Cincinnati Anthology. Ed. Zan McQuade. Shaker Heights: Belt Magazine & Rust Belt Chic Press, 2014. Pp. 213-228. Print.
“Neither Created Nor Destroyed.” Belt Magazine – Dispatches From the Rust Belt, 2 June, 2014 web. http://beltmag.com/heat/
Catalogues
2015 Governors Island Art Fair Catalogue, 4Heads Collective, New York, NY
2014 Book of Poems and Drawings for Peace and Justice, Ghosn Publishing, Cincinnati, OH
International Drawing Annual 6, juried catalogue, Manifest Press, Cincinnati, OH, 2011
The U-Turn Folios, (includes a photograph by Denise Burge and Jenny Ustick of Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running), U-Turn Art Space
(pub), February 2011
S.O.S. Art 2007, exhibition catalogue, Ghosn Publishing, Cincinnati, OH, 2008
Secret Artworks EXPOSED, exhibition catalogue of The Best of Secrets 2006, ArtWorks Cincinnati, OH,
2007 S.O.S. Art 2006, exhibition catalogue, Ghosn Publishing, Cincinnati, OH, 2007
S.O.S. Art 2005, exhibition catalogue, Ghosn Publishing, Cincinnati, OH, 2006
2005 Book of Poems and Drawings for Peace and Justice, Ghosn Publishing, Cincinnati, OH
Selected Press
Carol Motsinger, “ArtWorks Murals Honor Local Legacies,” Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 June 2016
RJ Smith, “Who Painted That Giant Mural of James Brown?” Cincinnati Magazine, 29 October 2015. View
Carol Motsinger, “Welcome Back to Cincinnati, James Brown” Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 August 2015. View
Julie Engebrecht, “Public-art event invites 8 locals” Cincinnati Enquirer, 7 July, 2014. View
Wendy Bredhold, “Maidens Running in New Harmony, stopping on campus” University of Southern Indiana News and Information Services, 27 February, 2014. View
Maya Drozdz, “The Hands That Built This City by Jenny Ustick” Visualingual, 5 November, 2013. View
Cliff Radel, “Hands’ mural gets big applause” Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 September, 2013. View
Maya Drozdz, “Homecoming [Bluebirds] by Charley Harper” Visualingual, 4 September, 2012. View
Maya Drozdz, “The Singing Mural by C.F. Payne and Jenny Ustick” Visualingual, 21 December, 2011. View
William Powell, “City Guide: Walls of Fame” Cincinnati Magazine, 2011. View
Maya Drozdz, “Over-the-Rhine: Into Its Renaissance by Jenny Ustick” Visualingual, 28 June, 2011. View
Matt Morris, “Majr Gazr & Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running (Review) Changing Minds at the CAC” Cincinnati City Beat, 8 June, 2011. View
Maria Seda-Reder, “Majr (Self) Gazn.” AEQAI, 11 May, 2011. View
Matt Morris, “Best Art Project That’s Like a Cult.” Cincinnati City Beat, Best of Cincinnati 2010, Out & About Staff Picks, 29 March, 2010. View
Maya Drozdz, “Clifton Heights Mural by Jenny Ustick.” Visualingual (by WordPress.com), 30 August, 2009. View
Selected Collections
Public
(forthcoming) Children’s Hospital Medical Center
University of Cincinnati, College of Allied Health Sciences, Cincinnati, OH
Private
Joy Flood, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI
Christina Kent, Ann Arbor, MI
Susan and Harvey Glick, Scarsdale, NY
Beth Altmeyer, Cincinnati, OH
Sarah and Ward Bahlman, Cincinnati, OH
Patricia Bruns, Cincinnati, OH
Kelly Corken, Florence, KY
Mary and Randy Ficke, Cincinnati, OH
Pam Kravetz and Craig Robinson, Cincinnati, OH
Timothy Leslie Cincinnati, OH
Alexandre Mathieu, Cincinnati, OH
Danielle and Michael Muething, Union Township, OH
Lou Reeves, Detroit, MI
David Siders, Cincinnati, OH
Sandra Small, Covington, KY
Randy Smith, Cincinnati, OH
Collaborative work with Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running: www.maidenprojects.com
Education
MFA in Painting, University of Cincinnati, 2005
BFA in Painting, Art Academy of Cincinnati, 2000
Selected Teaching
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Assistant Professor of Practice
Foundations Coordinator
Undergraduate Review Coordinator
Foundations Drawing Studio
Life Drawing
Senior Thesis Seminar
Foundations Surface Studio
Graduate Critique Seminar
Assistant Professor, Ann. Adj., 2011-12, 2014-15
Foundations 2D Co-coordinator 2014-15
Sophomore Review Coordinator 2014-15
Using Expressive Arts with Young Adult Cancer Patients and Survivors
Foundations Surface Studio
Foundations Drawing Studio
Drawing Studio 3 (quarters)
Life Drawing
Intermediate Drawing
Advanced/Post Bac/Graduate Drawing
Senior Thesis Seminar
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, 2012-14
Foundations Co-coordinator 2012-13
Sophomore Review Coordinator 2013-14
Art & Neighborhood Transformation
Using Expressive Arts with Young Adult Cancer Patients and Survivors
Special Studio: The Replicated Body, Mixed Media Approaches to the Purposeful Figure
Foundations Surface Studio
Foundations Time Studio
Foundations Space Studio
Intermediate Drawing
Senior Thesis Seminar
Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Adjunct Professor, Spring 2014
Painting IV: Contemporary Practices
Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, 2008-2011
Foundations Drawing I, II
Foundations: 2D Design
Color and Design
Life Drawing
ArtWorks, Cincinnati, Ohio
Project Manager
2016 Summer Apprenticeship Program, MuralWorks Walnut Hills Mural
2014 Summer Apprenticeship Program, MuralWorks Newport Aquarium Mural
Project Manager, Lead Artist
2015 Summer Apprenticeship Program, MuralWorks Over-the-Rhine Mural
2013 Summer Apprenticeship Program, MuralWorks Duke Energy Convention Center Mural
2012 Summer Apprenticeship Program, MuralWorks Court Street Mural
2011 Summer Apprenticeship Program, MuralWorks West End Mural
2010 Summer Apprenticeship Program, MuralWorks North Fairmount Mural
2009 Summer Apprenticeship Program, MuralWorks Clifton Heights Mural
2008 Summer Apprenticeship Program, MuralWorks Over-the-Rhine Mural
Teaching Artist
2006 Summer Apprenticeship Program, Sew Taft
2004 Summer Apprenticeship Program, City Seats
2003 Summer Apprenticeship Program, Hit Parade
Selected Scholarships, Fellowships, and Honors
2014 President’s Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Member Award, University of Cincinnati, 2013-14
2013-15 UC Forward Fellowship to develop and teach Using Expressive Arts with Young Adult Cancer Patients and Survivors in January 2014, University of Cincinnati
2007 Best In Show Award, The Dozens: Multiply, Juried Exhibition, Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA (film, The Dozens collaborative)
Juror’s Award for The Dozens: Multiply, Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
(film, The Dozens collaborative)
2004 Isabel Meta Wolfstein Traveling Fellowship, independent research and travel in Austria, The Czech Republic, Germany, and Poland 2003 – 2005 University of Cincinnati Full Graduate Fellowship and Graduate Assistantship
1998 Fischer Traditional Painting Continuing Scholarship, Art Academy of Cincinnati
1995 – 2000 BFA Continuing Scholarship, Art Academy of Cincinnati
Selected Public Art Commissions (Designed, Led, or Assisted)
Assisting Artist, ArtWorks MuralWorks 2016, Neil Armstrong (Designed and led by Eduardo Kobra and crew)
Project Manager, ArtWorks MuralWorks 2016, This is 5 Points, (Designed by Morag Meyerscough), Five Points Alley, Walnut Hills - Cincinnati
Assisting Artist, Refuge at Basel, 1 Hotel South Beach (Designed by Robert Lazzarini, led by Atalie Gagnet), commissioned by Architectural Digest for Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, Florida, November, 2015
Designer and Project Manager, ArtWorks MuralWorks 2015, Mr. Dynamite (James Brown), 1437 Main Street, Cincinnati, OH
Co-Designer, Clifton Neighborhood Association, Telford Plaza Mural, Spring/Summer 2014, Cincinnati, OH
Project Manager, ArtWorks MuralWorks 2014, (Designed by Rosalind Tallmadge), Newport Aquarium, Newport, KY
Designer and Project Manager, ArtWorks MuralWorks 2013, The Hands That Built Our City, 525 Elm Street, Cincinnati, OH
Design Consultant and Project Manager, ArtWorks MuralWorks 2012, Homecoming (Charley Harper, Designer), 119 E. Court Street, Cincinnati, OH
Project Manager, ArtWorks MuralWorks 2011, The Singing Mural (Designed by C.F. Payne), 1223 Central Parkway, Cincinnati, OH
Designer and Project Manager, ArtWorks MuralWorks 2010, All You Can Imagine is Real, 1515 Carll Street, Cincinnati, OH
Designer and Project Manager, ArtWorks MuralWorks 2009, Welcome to Clifton Heights, 2392 Wheeler Street, Cincinnati, OH
Designer and Project Manager, ArtWorks MuralWorks 2008, Over-the-Rhine: Into its Renaissance, 1519 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH
Selected Professional Service (Lectures, Critiques, Juries)
Visiting Artist Lecturer, School for the Creative and Performing Arts, December 2014
Guest Critic, Advanced Tutorial, Art Academy of Cincinnati, October 2014
Juror, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Southern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Southwest Indiana Region, January 2014
School of Art NASAD Review Gallery Exhibition Committee, University of Cincinnati, 2013-14
Faculty Innovation Council, University of Cincinnati, 2013-15
Alumni Panel, Senior Thesis Seminar, Art Academy of Cincinnati, November 2013
Guest Critic, Senior Critique Seminar, Art Academy of Cincinnati, October 2013
Guest Critic, Senior Critique Seminar, Art Academy of Cincinnati, October 2012
Scripps Teaching Artist for the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati; workshop based on the exhibition: Spectacle (CAC Cincinnati) with students at Lloyd Memorial High School in Erlanger, KY, April 2012
Installing Artist, Walkie Talkie Man (Michel Gondry) installation, part of Spectacle, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, March 2012
Mayerson Foundation Visiting Artist Lecturer (with Bombshells of Cincinnati) at the School for Creative and Performing Arts, Cincinnati, OH, March 2012
Guest Critic, Senior Critique Seminar, Art Academy of Cincinnati, February 2012
Selected Research, Exhibition and Screening Record
Papers, Presentations, and Lectures
"I Know Your Fear," presenter, FATE Conference, Kansas City, MO
“The Gazr in U: Casting Romantic Transmissions,” presenter, Society for Utopian Studies Annual Conference, Delta Montréal, Quebec, October 2014 “Shavasana Project for a Harmonist Farm…,” lecture (with Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running), University of Southern Indiana, Center for Communal Studies, Evansville, IN, March 2014
“Harmony in the New World,” presenter, Society for Utopian Studies Annual Conference, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, November 2013
“Bodies Shaping the Land, Land Shaping Bodies,” presenter, Earth Perfect? Nature, Utopia, and the Garden Symposium & Exhibitions, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, June 2013
Visiting Artist Lecturer, Current Arts Forum, Miami University at Oxford, OH, December 2011
Other Symposia and Conferences
FATE Regional Event {WV and surrounding states} 4D (Time) in Foundations, West Virginia Wesleyan College March 2016
Between the Discursive and the Immersive: A Symposium on Research in 21st Century Art Museums, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 3-4, 2015 (invited to present, declined to attend)
SculptureX Symposium 2015, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI (attended)
International Art Fairs and Film Festivals
2015 ArtPrize, Public Image: The Clothes Have No Emperor, DeVos Place Convention Center, Grand Rapids, MI, September 2015
Governor’s Island Art Fair, Organized by 4Heads Art Collective; Public Image: The Clothes Have No Emperor, Governors Island,New York, NY, September 2015
2014 ArtPrize, Metanoia: You Are Here, Ah-Nab-Awen Park, Grand Rapids, MI, September 2014
2006 Alternative Film/Video 2006, screening of The Dozens: Multiply, at the Academic Film Centre, Student City Cultural Centre (SCCC), New
Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, December 2006 http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org (film, The Dozens collaborative)
* The Dozens: Multiply, with Denise Burge, Tracy Featherstone, Elaine Lynch, Letitia Quesenberry, and Lisa Siders-Kinney, exhibited at the
Augustine’s Studio, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland, August 15-19 2006 (film, The Dozens collaborative)
(*Solo)
Museum
2016 Sisters of the Moon, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY, October 2016
Public Image: The Clothes Have No Emperor, 21C Museum Hotel, Cincinnati, OH, May 2016
2012 Collaborative Yarnbombing with JAFAgirls (of Yellow Springs, OH), to accompany the exhibition You Are My Superhero (Mark Newport),
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, September 2012 (Bombshells of Cincinnati)
Truly, Newly (Fiber) Chihuly, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, February 11, 2012 (Bombshells of Cincinnati)
2011 Fluffy Fairey, Contemporary Arts Center Gala, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 2011 (Bombshells of Cincinnati)
* Majr Gazr, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, April 2011 (MOTCBR collaborative
2010 82nd Regional Exhibition, juried, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, May 2010
2007 Juried Exhibition, featuring The Dozens: Multiply, Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA, June 2007 (film, The Dozens collaborative)
The Dozens: Multiply, screened as part of the Milestones series, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, March 2007 (film, The Dozens
collaborative)
(*Solo)
National
2016 Drawing Never Dies, RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO, July 2016
DRAWN, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH, May 2016
2014 Two Kinds of Funny, Atrium Gallery, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, January 2014
2013 Commissioned Yarnbombing for Vogue Knitting Live!, Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL, November 2013 (Bombshells of Cincinnati)
Two Kinds of Funny, Phaze 2 Gallery, Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV, October 2013
Two Kinds of Funny, Bloch Hall Gallery, Montevallo University, Montevallo, AL, September 2013
2012 Hyper-Real, Caladan Gallery, Cambridge, MA, April 2012
Two Kinds of Funny, Philip M. Meyers Jr. Memorial Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, November 2012
2011 * Black Forest Project, Fine Arts Gallery, St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX, November, 2011 (Black Forest Project collaborative)
Outside America, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, January 2011 (MOTCBR collaborative)
2008 Davis Feminist Film Festival, Veterans Memorial Theatre, Davis, CA, February 2008 (film, The Dozens collaborative)
Self-Evident: Contemporary American Self-Portraiture, juried, Claypool-Young Art Gallery, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY,
January 2008
I Love You, You Love Me, juried, Northern Kentucky University Art Gallery, Highland Heights, KY, February 2008
2007 Face Value, juried, Broward Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Davie, FL, November 2007
Vertical Hold, screening of I Am The Bomb from The Dozens: Multiply, Ellensburg Film Festival, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA, October 2007 (film, The Dozens collaborative)
Vernacular Spectacular, encore presentation by InLiquid, screening of I Am The Bomb from The Dozens: Multiply, International House Video
Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, September 2007 (film, The Dozens collaborative)
Juried Exhibition, featuring The Dozens: Multiply, Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA, June 2007 (film, The Dozens collaborative)
Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition, juror: Alex Baker of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Delaware Center for Contemporary Art,
Wilmington, DE, January 2007 (film, The Dozens collaborative)
2006 Vernacular Spectacular, screening of I Am The Bomb from The Dozens: Multiply, at the Society for Photographic Education’s MidAtlantic Film
Festival, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, November 2006 (film, The Dozens collaborative)
(*Solo)
Selected Regional
2016 *re:cloak, 1305 Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, January 2016
2015 With or Without Fashion, Boom Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, June 2015
Modern Makers: Materialis, Niehoff Urban Studio, Cincinnati, OH, March 2015
2014 *The gazr in U, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Southern Indiana, and Historic New Harmony, New Harmony, IN,
March 2014 (MOTCBR collaborative)
2013 Artspace Invitational, Historic Mercantile Lofts, Hamilton, OH, August 2013
Natur-alley: Observation, Representation, and Interpretation of Nature in Art, Park National Bank Art Gallery, University of Cincinnati
Clermont College, March 2013
Modern Makers: Textile Construct, Modern Makers, Cincinnati, OH, January 2013
2012 Autocomplete: A Contemporary Coloring Book Exhibit, Visionaries and Voices, Cincinnati, OH, May 2012
Kitchen Gallery, Park National Bank Art Gallery, University of Cincinnati Clermont College, May 2012
Object Imprint (MOTCBR collaborative), Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH, January 2012
2011 A Whole New World, Third Party Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, December 2011
She Said… inv., Appleton Gallery, Vern Riffe Center for the Arts, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, OH, October 2011
* Do You Know The Shape of Desire? (Black Forest Project Collaborative), Aisle Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, September 2011
Selections From the International Drawing Annual 6, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH, March 2011
2010 EXPOSED: Top 100 Artists of 2009, inv. ArtWorks Project Space, Cincinnati, OH, October 2010
Michigan Fine Arts Competition, juried, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI, April 2010
Colony (Black Forest Project and MOTCBR collaboratives), U-turn Art Space, Cincinnati, OH, January 2010
2009 DollBaby, Little/Gaines Artist Series featuring Kelli Burton, collaborative curator; screening Weekend at 3’s Lounge, Niles Gallery, Lucille Little
Fine Arts Library, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, September 2009 (sculpture; film, Love Ewe Films)
2007 Candy, Nicholas Gallery and Carteaux & Leslie joint exhibition, Cincinnati, OH, July 2007
Made In America, juried, juror: Charles A. Shepard III of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art; Pendleton Art Center, Rising Sun, IN, July 2007
Moving Pictures Series Selection, showing The Dozens: Multiply, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH,
April 2007 (film, The Dozens collaborative)
My Cincinnati, invitational, ArtWorks Time Warner Cable Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, April 2007
2006 Figuratively Speaking, ArtWorks Time Warner Cable Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, November 2006
S. O. S. Art Retrospective: Selections 2004-2005, invitational, University Galleries on Sycamore, Cincinnati, OH, June 2006
* Never Again, Carteaux & Leslie, Cincinnati, OH, February 2006
2005 * Projection of Living Space, Carteaux & Leslie, Cincinnati, OH, March 2005
(*Solo)
Performance
2015 trueBEAUTY, trueTHEATRE series, Jeffrey Groh and David Levy producers, Know Theatre, Cincinnati, OH, April 13, 2015
2014 trueVACATION, trueTHEATRE series, Jeffrey Groh and David Levy producers, Know Theatre, Cincinnati, OH, January 13, 2014
Published Writing
“Neither Created Nor Destroyed.” The Cincinnati Anthology. Ed. Zan McQuade. Shaker Heights: Belt Magazine & Rust Belt Chic Press, 2014. Pp. 213-228. Print.
“Neither Created Nor Destroyed.” Belt Magazine – Dispatches From the Rust Belt, 2 June, 2014 web. http://beltmag.com/heat/
Catalogues
2015 Governors Island Art Fair Catalogue, 4Heads Collective, New York, NY
2014 Book of Poems and Drawings for Peace and Justice, Ghosn Publishing, Cincinnati, OH
International Drawing Annual 6, juried catalogue, Manifest Press, Cincinnati, OH, 2011
The U-Turn Folios, (includes a photograph by Denise Burge and Jenny Ustick of Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running), U-Turn Art Space
(pub), February 2011
S.O.S. Art 2007, exhibition catalogue, Ghosn Publishing, Cincinnati, OH, 2008
Secret Artworks EXPOSED, exhibition catalogue of The Best of Secrets 2006, ArtWorks Cincinnati, OH,
2007 S.O.S. Art 2006, exhibition catalogue, Ghosn Publishing, Cincinnati, OH, 2007
S.O.S. Art 2005, exhibition catalogue, Ghosn Publishing, Cincinnati, OH, 2006
2005 Book of Poems and Drawings for Peace and Justice, Ghosn Publishing, Cincinnati, OH
Selected Press
Carol Motsinger, “ArtWorks Murals Honor Local Legacies,” Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 June 2016
RJ Smith, “Who Painted That Giant Mural of James Brown?” Cincinnati Magazine, 29 October 2015. View
Carol Motsinger, “Welcome Back to Cincinnati, James Brown” Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 August 2015. View
Julie Engebrecht, “Public-art event invites 8 locals” Cincinnati Enquirer, 7 July, 2014. View
Wendy Bredhold, “Maidens Running in New Harmony, stopping on campus” University of Southern Indiana News and Information Services, 27 February, 2014. View
Maya Drozdz, “The Hands That Built This City by Jenny Ustick” Visualingual, 5 November, 2013. View
Cliff Radel, “Hands’ mural gets big applause” Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 September, 2013. View
Maya Drozdz, “Homecoming [Bluebirds] by Charley Harper” Visualingual, 4 September, 2012. View
Maya Drozdz, “The Singing Mural by C.F. Payne and Jenny Ustick” Visualingual, 21 December, 2011. View
William Powell, “City Guide: Walls of Fame” Cincinnati Magazine, 2011. View
Maya Drozdz, “Over-the-Rhine: Into Its Renaissance by Jenny Ustick” Visualingual, 28 June, 2011. View
Matt Morris, “Majr Gazr & Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running (Review) Changing Minds at the CAC” Cincinnati City Beat, 8 June, 2011. View
Maria Seda-Reder, “Majr (Self) Gazn.” AEQAI, 11 May, 2011. View
Matt Morris, “Best Art Project That’s Like a Cult.” Cincinnati City Beat, Best of Cincinnati 2010, Out & About Staff Picks, 29 March, 2010. View
Maya Drozdz, “Clifton Heights Mural by Jenny Ustick.” Visualingual (by WordPress.com), 30 August, 2009. View
Selected Collections
Public
(forthcoming) Children’s Hospital Medical Center
University of Cincinnati, College of Allied Health Sciences, Cincinnati, OH
Private
Joy Flood, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI
Christina Kent, Ann Arbor, MI
Susan and Harvey Glick, Scarsdale, NY
Beth Altmeyer, Cincinnati, OH
Sarah and Ward Bahlman, Cincinnati, OH
Patricia Bruns, Cincinnati, OH
Kelly Corken, Florence, KY
Mary and Randy Ficke, Cincinnati, OH
Pam Kravetz and Craig Robinson, Cincinnati, OH
Timothy Leslie Cincinnati, OH
Alexandre Mathieu, Cincinnati, OH
Danielle and Michael Muething, Union Township, OH
Lou Reeves, Detroit, MI
David Siders, Cincinnati, OH
Sandra Small, Covington, KY
Randy Smith, Cincinnati, OH