abridged CV

Education:

  Master of Fine Arts, College of DAAP, University of Cincinnati, Ohio 
  Master of Library Science, School of SLIS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

  Bachelor of Fine Arts, College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio 
  Bachelor of Arts, English, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky

Solo & Two Person Exhibitions:

2017
The Poet's Desk, Rosewood Gallery, Kettering, Ohio
2015
Of Reference, Of Departure, Of Origin, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
2014
Diverge, part of a two person exhibition, New Work. The Flats Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2012
The Poet’s Table, University Galleries on Sycamore, Cincinnati, OH
Nota Bene, The Minute Gallery, University of Cincinnati, OH
2011
What Remains, Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center, Covington, KY
2010
On the Down Low, Pipeline Gallery, University of Cincinnati, OH
2009
Cycle Series: Mixed Media Drawings & Collages, Frank Duveneck Arts & Cultural Center, Covington, KY
New Collages, Kunken Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2008
Cycle Series, Studio San Giuseppe, College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio

Selected Juried & Invitational Group Exhibits:

2017
Alumni Excellence. January 16-February 19, 2017. Studio San Giuseppe, Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, Ohio
2016
New, Recent, & In Progress, October 15, 2016. Part of the artist-in-residence open studios tour for The Great ARTdoors Festival held at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, Georgia.

44th Mid-States Exhibition, January 17 – March 6, 2016, Evansville Museum of Arts, History, and Sciences,
juror: Julia Black Andrews, Executive Director of the Coral Springs Museum of Art, Florida.
2015
Small Works 2015, November 11-December 31, Main Street Arts Gallery, Clifton Springs, New York, juror: Rebecca Rafferty.

Plain Airs: Contemporary Takes on Reality and Realism, September 25-November 22, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, curator/juror: Kyle Herrington.

A Thousand Invisible Threads:Mapping the Rhizome, Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, curators: Jennifer Wenker and Michael Casselli.
  
Kentucky & West Virginia Artists, June-August, Annex Gallery, Charleston, West Virginia   

The Residents: Artworks from the KHN Permanent Collection, April 17-May 28, Stalder Gallery, Falls City Library and Art Center, Falls City, Nebraska, (traveling exhibit), curator/juror: Elizabeth Stehling.   

35th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, March 7-April 17, Bradley University Galleries in conjunction with: Heuser Art Gallery, Prairie Center of the Arts, Peoria Art Guild, Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, Peoria, IL. curator/juror: Beth Grabowski.

Located Place, January 12-February 27, Kresge Gallery, Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas, curator/juror: Dustyn Bork.
2014
The Residents: Artworks from the KHN Permanent Collection, Hastings College Art Gallery, Hastings, Nebraska, (traveling exhibit), curator/juror: Elizabeth Stehling. 
Totem, Boom Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, curators: Greg Swiger and Corrina Mehiel
The Illustrated Accordion, Kalamazoo Book Arts Center Gallery, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Stimulating Creativity In Practice, invitational online exhibit of ARLIS/NA SCIP members  
2013
PaperWork In, On and Of Paper VI, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri, curator/juror: Betty Shew
Confluence: Partnership & Creativity, Studio San Giuseppe, College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio
Family First Saturday: A Wrinkle in Time, Cincinnati Art Museum, January 5
2012
Fakin’ It, Philip M. Meyers, Jr. Memorial Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Ohio
[Artists: Cabinet Magazine, Cynthia Gregory, Marc Horowitz, Peter Baldes, David Herbert, Alex Ebstein, Seth Adelsberger, Megan Schvaneveldt Frank, Katie Bell, Roula Partheniou, Malin Gabriella Nordin], curator: Ryan Mulligan
Found in Translation, three person exhibit with G. Swiger & C. Schmit, Semantics Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Mount Art & Design Faculty Exhibition, Studio San Giuseppe, College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio
2011
Library Thoughts, Raday Kepeshaz Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Secret Artworks: The Masters, ArtWorks Cincinnati, MCA Event Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
A Very Drawing Show, 840 Gallery, DAAP, University of Cincinnati
2010
Exposed: Top Secret Artists of 2009, Time Warner ArtWorks Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Faculty Exhibition, Studio San Giuseppe, College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio
2009
Mixed Media October Show, five person exhibit with Jennifer Bortz Schneider, Leslie Getz, Randel Plowman & Susan Najarian, Redtree Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2008
Mixed Up: an all mixed media show, Redtree Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio 
Exposed: Top Secret Artists of 2007, Time Warner ArtWorks Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Refresh, Rebirth, Renew, three person exhibit with Annette Eberhardt & Uta Rietman, Redtree Gallery,Cincinnati, Ohio
2007
Seven: a Local Juried Art Exhibition, Redtree Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Fire Fusion, Funke Fired Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio
2006
Drawn from Life, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
2004
Bookworks5, Exhibit of Cincinnati Book Arts Society Members. PLCHC, Cincinnati, Ohio 

Artist Residencies:

2016  The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, Georgia
2015  (accepted but did not attend), The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, Georgia
2013   Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, Nebraska

Bibliography (Reviews, Press, & Interviews):


Nevins, Joyell. “The Rainbow Connection? A Thousand Invisible Threads: Mapping the Rhizome at Herndon Gallery,” Dayton City Paper, September 30, 2015.
 
Swiger, Greg. “Cynthia Gregory,” Final Friday Podcast, October 23, 2015.

Anspon, Catherine D. "San Antonio's Contemporary Beacon: Blue Star's Art Bounty," Paper City Magazine. June 19, 2015.

Goddard, Dan R. "Everyday Life Connects the Dots in New Blue Star Exhibits," San Antonio Current, June 17, 2015.
 
Bennett, Steve. "Blue Star Exhibition Celebrates the Mundane." San Antonio Express-News, June 12, 2015.
 
Velasco, Jenna.  "28 Photos From First Friday At Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum,”  San Antonio Current, June 5, 2015.
 
Rindfuss, Bryan. "10 Things You Have To Do This Weekend" By Bryan Rindfuss, San Antonio Current, June 4, 2015.
 
Ethington, Tommie. "Summer Fun: Arts + Culture | Summer Fun 2015,” San Antonio Magazine,  May 2015.

 "Community art sales proving to be a hot ticket" by Julie Engebrecht, Cincinnati Enquirer, April 30, 2014.

 Gelfand, Janelle and Julie Engebrecht. "Arts in focus: C-S-Arts is now selling a second season of shares," Cincinnati Enquirer,  May 4, 2014.
 
"Time to Invest in New 'Crop' of Art" Express Cincinnati, September 2014.
 
Burris, Sarah. “Cynthia Gregory,” The Artist And Librarian, May 25, 2014.
 
Schwartz, Kathy.  “Harvesting Local Art,” City Beat, May 7, 2014.

Pearce, Sara. “Shares? Portfolios? Cincinnatians buy into new trend in art,” Express Cincinnati, May 2014, p8.   

Engebrecht, Julie. “Community art sales proving to be a hot ticket,” Cincinnati Enquirer, April 30, 2014.

Durrell, Jane. City Beat Recommends. “Confluence: Partnership and Creativity.” City Beat, March 14, 2013.

Durrell, Jane. “Artists at Home.” City Beat, March 13, 2013.   

Chambers, Karen. "Confluence: Partnership and Creativity," AEQAI, March 2013.

Seda-Reeder, Maria. “Collaborative Assemblages,” AEQAI, Summer 2012.

Demaline, Jackie.  “Fiber artist lets materials lead way.”  Solo show at Covington Carnegie Center featured in the “If you go” section. Cincinnati Enquirer, October 23, 2011.

Publications:

Gregory, Cynthia. "Drawings: Saying Something (Inside of Saying Something)," Pretentious Writings. edited by Andre' Alves, 2015.
 
Gregory, Cynthia.  "Ordinary Time." Dialogist. June 2014, 2(1).

Gregory, Cynthia. “Getty’s Open Content Program.” ARLIS/NA Media & Technology Reviews, April 2014.

“Best Paper Airplane in the World,” For a Better World: Poems and Drawings on Peace and Justice.
Ghosn, Saad, ed. Ghosn Publishing:  Cincinnati, 2014.

Gregory, Cynthia. “A Review of 40 Under 40: Craft Futures,” ARLIS/NA Book Reviews, March 2013.

Gregory, Cynthia L. "But I Want a Real Book: An Investigation of Undergraduates' Usage and Attitudes
toward Electronic Books."  Reference & User Services Quarterly (RUSQ), 2008, 47(3).

"Where's That Mister So-and-so?," "Motherland," "A Little Green," Mixed media drawings & collages
 published in: Davies, Jane. Collage Journeys. Watson-Guptill. 2008.

Flanders, Julie and Cynthia Gregory.  "A Leisure Cinema Collection" Against the Grain, June 2006, 18(3).

Gregory, Cynthia L. "Book Arts on the Web: An introduction to selected resources," College &
Research Libraries News, April 2004, 65(4).

Gregory, C.L.  "Taking off my Shoes (While you sit Reading)," The Allegheny Review. 1996, vol. 14. 

Gregory, C.L.  "The Sign" and "Taking Off my Shoes (While you sit Reading)," Athenaeum. Spring 1996.

Gregory, C.L.  "Interior," Poetry Motel. 1995, n.23.

Gregory, C.L.  "Two Postcards," Forklift, Ohio. December 1994, vol.1, n.2.

Awards/grants/scholarships:

2016
Artist Residency Partial Fellowship, The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, Georgia

2014  
Top 25 Secret Artists, ArtWorks Cincinnati. Jurors: Matt Distel, Raphaela Platow, Dennis Harrington, Deborah Scott and Brian Sholis. 
CSArts Cincinnati, Commissioned Season 2 Artist Grant, Jurors:  Maureen Bloomfield, Dennis Harrington, Kim Krause, Steven Matijcio

2013 
Artist Residency Award/Grant, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, Nebraska 

2010-2012  
University Graduate Scholarship and Graduate Assistantship, School of Art, Univ. of Cincinnati 

2007, 2009
Top Artist for Secret Artworks, ArtWorks Cincinnati

2006, 2007 
Summer Scholarships, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee  

2004 
Online Reference Research Grant Award, Given by Xrefer.com (cross reference) for "But I Want a Real Book: An Investigation of Undergraduates' Usage and Attitudes Toward Electronic Books.”

1997-1998  
Graduate Assistantship and Scholarship, School of Library & Information Science, Indiana University 
    
1995-1996  
College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Scholarship, NKU 

1995  
London Summer Program Scholarship, Cooperative Center for Study in Britain, NKU