Artist Talk w/ Mural Artist Jenny Ustick

The University of New Mexico-Taos and the Taos Arts Council have commissioned internationally recognized muralist Jenny Roesel Ustick to create the Historical Women of Taos mural on Civic Plaza Drive. Painting of the mural will take place between May 2nd and May 28th.

While Jenny is in Taos working on the mural, she will host several community paintings days and present an artist talk at the Harwood Museum on May 3rd at 6:00pm.

Community Painting Days will be May 6 & 7 from 12-3pm and May 11 from 4-6pm.

Jenny Roesel Ustick is Associate Professor of Practice and Foundations Coordinator in the School of Art – DAAP at the University of Cincinnati. She holds an MFA from the same program and a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati. A Cincinnati native, Ustick has become one of the most prominent muralists in her region, completing over 10 projects with ArtWorks and several independent projects that include commissions from the US Soccer Federation, 21C Museum Hotel Cincinnati, and multiple local establishments. Her Mr. Dynamite (James Brown) mural in Cincinnati has earned her international attention. Elsewhere in the U.S., Ustick has created or contributed to murals in Tennessee, New Mexico, Illinois, Kentucky, and Florida, including invitations to the Walls for Women mural festival in Tennessee, and the CRE8IV Mural Festival in Rockford, Illinois. Internationally, Ustick has participated in the Proyecto Palimipsesto mural residency with La Fundación ‘ace para el Arte Contemporáneo y el ‘acePIRAR, Programa Internacional de Residencias Artísticas in 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was Artist in Residence in spring 2018 with the Graniti Murales program in Graniti, Sicily.

Ustick is also a multimedia solo and collaborative studio artist with a practice based in drawing and painting, and expansions into multimedia textile and time-based installations. Ustick’s solo and collaborative works have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museum venues that include the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, the Dayton Art Institute, the Cincinnati Art Museum, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, and Redline Contemporary in Denver. She has participated in multiple international art fairs including Governors Island Art Fair in New York, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and ArtPrize.
Ustick is also a published critical art writer, contributing essays to The Cincinnati Anthology, and Still They Persist: Protest Art from the 2017 Women’s Marches. Ustick and her collaborators have been featured in American Quarterly, the Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, La Sicilia, and numerous local publications and broadcasts.

For more information about Jenny Roesel Ustick, visit: https://www.jennyroeselustick.com
For more information about the Historical Women of Taos mural, visit: https://www.unmtaosart.com/historical-women-mural