Jenny Roesel Ustick , MFA

Jenny Roesel Ustick is Associate Professor of Fine Arts in the School of Art, DAAP. She is one of the most prominent muralists in the region, creating murals around the United States in the context of institutional partnerships, nonprofit organizations, independent commissions, and mural festivals. Internationally, Ustick has earned and created work through residencies in Argentina and Italy. Ustick also maintains a multi-media studio practice. She has an extensive exhibition record ranging from local to international museums and galleries, showing solo and collaborative studio work. She presents regularly about her teaching and art practice at national conferences including CAA, FATE, and SECAC. She has published essays in curated and peer-reviewed publications, has been reviewed in American Quarterly, and interviewed by Yale University Radio. Other mentions include publications such as Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz, the Huffington Post, and Forbes. 

 

Master of Fine Arts: University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, 2005

Bachelor of Fine Arts: Art Academy of Cincinnati Cincinnati,OH, 2000

Murals, Street Art, Public Art, and Community Art
Drawing, Painting, Fibers, and Multimedia Studio Work
Small- and Large-Scale Collaboration
Feminism, Social HIstory, and Representation  

2012 -2015 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,OH

2011 -2012 Annualized Adjunct Professor, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,OH

2014 -2015 Adjunct Professor, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,OH

2013 -2014 Adjunct Professor, University of Cincinnati Clermont College, Batavia, OH

2008 -2011 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI

2006 -2008 Adjunct Instructor, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Ky

2005 -2007 Adjunct Instructor, Miami University Hamilton, Hamilton, OH

2003 -2005 Graduate Assistant, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,OH

2014 -2015 Assistant Professor, Annualized Adjunct, Foundations 2D Co-coordinator, School of Art, College of DAAP, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,OH

2015 -2020 Assistant Professor of Practice, Foundations Coordinator, School of Art, College of DAAP, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,OH

2018 -2019 Interim Director, Master of Fine Arts Program, School of Art, College of DAAP, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,OH

2020 -2022 Associate Professor of Practice, Foundations Coordinator, School of Art, College of DAAP, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,OH

2022 -2024 Associate Professor, Tenure Track, Foundations Coordinator, School of Art, College of DAAP, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,OH

2024 -2025 Associate Professor, Foundations Coordinator, School of Art, College of DAAP, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,OH

2025 -2026 Associate Professor of Fine Arts, School of Art, College of DAAP, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,OH

Peer Reviewed Publications

Ustick, Jennifer (2022. ) Public Art, Representation, and Questions of Revisiting the Past.Cubic Journal, , 5 (5 ) ,94-109

Public Art, Representation, and Questions of Revising the Past

Other Publications

Suarez, Harrod (2020. ) Midterm Evaluations, Swing State Aesthetics, 207 -Up to page 220 Johns Hopkins University Press

Midterm Evaluations, Swing State Aesthetics

(2015. ) Governors Island Art Fair Catalogue, New York, NY

(2014. ) Book of Poems and Drawings for Peace and Justice, Cincinnati, OH

(2011. ) International Drawing Annual 6, juried catalogue, Cincinnati, OH

(02-2011. ) The U-Turn Folios, (includes a photograph by Denise Burge and Jenny Ustick of Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running),

(2008. ) S.O.S. Art 2007 Exhibition Catalogue, Cincinnati, OH

(2007. ) Secret Artworks EXPOSED, exhibition catalogue of The Best of Secrets 2006, Cincinnati, OH

(2007. ) S.O.S. Art 2006 Exhibition Catalogue, Cincinnati, OH

(2006. ) S.O.S. Art 2005 Exhibition Catalogue, Cincinnati, OH

(2005. ) 2005 Book of Poems and Drawings for Peace and Justice, Cincinnati, OH

(2016. ) The Best Of, Poems and Drawings on Peace and Justice by Greater Cincinnati Artists, Ghosn Publishing

(2017. ) 6th Annual Armstrong National 2D Competition and Exhibition Catalogue, Armstrong State University Press

(2017. ) The Best Of: Poems and Drawings on Peace and Justice by Greater Cincinnati Artists, Ghosn Publishing/SOS Art

(2019. ) Transforming Cincinnati: How a decade of ArtWorks murals changed people and communities forever, ArtWorks Cincinnati

(2019. ) For a Better World: The Best of 2004-2015, Ghosn Publishing/SOS Art

(2024. ) Silencia, You Are Free, Limited Edition Folio, Mercantile Library, Cincinnati, OH

Book Chapter

Ustick, Jennifer (2014 ) “Neither Created Nor Destroyed.” The Cincinnati Anthology .(pp. pp. 213-228).Shaker Heights, Belt Magazine & Rust Belt Chic Press

Link to article

Ustick, Jennifer (2017 ) Knitting is for Pussies Exhibition Catalogue for the traveling exhibition Still They Persist: Protest Art of the 2017 Women’s Marches .Cincinnati, OH, FemFour

Lecture

(10-2014. ) “The Gazr in U: Casting Romantic Transmissions” .Montreal, Canada.

With Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running (03-2014. ) “Shavasana Project for a Harmonist Farm...” .Evansville, IN.

(11-2013. ) “Harmony in the New World” .Charleston, SC.

(06-2013. ) “Bodies Shaping the Land, Land Shaping Bodies” .Newark, DE.

Keynote Speaker (with Bombshells of Cincinnati) (11-2012. ) “Bombshells of Cincinnati” .Covington, KY,.

(05-2012. ) Visiting Artist Lecturer, .Cincinnati, OH.

Guest Artist (with Bombshells of Cincinnati) (08-2011. ) “Bombshells of Cincinnati” .Contemporary Arts Center; Cincinnati, OH.

(12-2011. ) Visiting Artist Lecturer .Oxford, OH.

Symposium

(12-2015. ) Between the Discursive and the Immersive: A Symposium on Research in 21st Century Art Museums .Copenhagen, Denmark.

(2015. ) SculptureX Symposium 2015 .Detroit, MI.

-2014 President’s Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Member Award, University of Cincinnati

2013 -2015 UC Forward Fellowship To develop and teach Using Expressive Arts with Young Adult Cancer Patients and Survivors in January 2014, University of Cincinnati

-2008 Most Wanted Faculty Award Student Support Services Annual Achievement Ceremony, Northern Kentucky University

-2007 Best In Show Award The Dozens: Multiply, Juried Exhibition, Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA (film, The Dozens collaborative)

-2007 Juror’s Award 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

-2004 Presenter to the Ohio Board of Regents Represented the School of Art, DAAP, University of Cincinnati

2013 -To Present: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center’s Cancer & Blood Diseases Institute, Member Adolescent & Young Adult Advisory Committee

2013 -To Present: Foundations in Art: Theory and Practice (FATE), Member

2013 -To Present: Society for Utopian Studies (SUS), Member,

2013 -To Present: Spring In Our Steps, Board of Directors

2004 -To Present: College Art Association (CAA), Member

Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Member

2004 -To Present: College Art Association, Member

2020 -2026: SECAC Member

2024 -2026: Chair, Committee on Academic Affairs and Professional Development Art Academy of Cincinnati,

2022 -2026: Member, Board of Trustees Art Academy of Cincinnati,

http://www.jennyroeselustick.com/,

Papers, Presentations, and Lectures

• “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
• “Bombshells of Cincinnati,” Ohio Art Educators Association Conference, Keynote Speaker (with Bombshells of Cincinnati), Covington, KY, November 2012
• Visiting Artist Lecturer, Fibers Special Studio, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, May 2012
• “Bombshells of Cincinnati,” One Night/One Craft, Guest Artist (with Bombshells of Cincinnati) Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, August 2011
• Visiting Artist Lecturer, Current Arts Forum, Miami University at Oxford, OH, December 2011

Public Collections

• University of Cincinnati, College of Allied Health Sciences, Cincinnati, OH