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JENNY ROESEL USTICK
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