Education:
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics
Art Academy of Cincinnati, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography.
Fellowships, Residencies
2025. Byrdcliffe - Artist in Residence - Woodstock, NY.
2024 NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) – Emerging Artist
Huron Artist Residency - Lake Huron, MI.
2023 Kennedy Heights Arts Center - Vibrancy Fellowship - Cincinnati, OH.
Queen City Clay – Artist in Residence - Cincinnati, OH.
Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts – Artist in Residence - Helena, MT
2022 Wave Pool Contemporary Art Center - Welcome (M)Art Residency, - Cincinnati, OH.
Grants, Awards
2025. Pollock-Krasner Foundation - Cottage Award - Byrdcliffe A.I.R. Program - Woodstock, NY.
2023. Senska Scholarship - Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT.
2020 Artworks – Jump Start: Emerging Artist “When Life Gives Us Lemons” in collaboration with Maggie Lawson - Cincinnati, OH.
Fotofocus “Light &” Wave Pool – A Contemporary Art Fulfillment Center
#LetLoveLeadTheWay Mural – Camp Washington, Cincinnati, OH.
Alumni Association Scholarship, Art Academy of Cincinnati – Cincinnati, OH.
John E. and Mary Ann Butkovich Tuition Scholarship Art Academy of Cincinnati
J.K. Smith Risk Taker Award Scholarship, Art Academy of Cincinnati
2018 #Wanted – Site Specific Interactive Installation- The Know Theater, Cincy Fringe Festival. Cincinnati, OH.
2017 Before I Die Wall - Interactive public installation (Candy Chang) Over the Rhine Community Council, Cincinnati, OH.
“Life Is...” Site Specific Interactive Installation - The Know Theater, Cincy Fringe Festival. Cincinnati, OH.
Bertha Langhorst Werner Tuition Scholarship, Art Academy of Cincinnati
Solo Exhibitions
2023 This Is Not a Coup, The Welcome Project. Cincinnati, OH. (NCECA)
2021 When Life Gives Me Lemons, Clifton Cultural Arts Center. Cincinnati, OH.
2020 The Journey, The Dream, Fotofocus. The Welcome Project, Cincinnati, OH.
Quarantine, Askew Gallery. Cincinnati, OH.
2019 See Me Without You, The Mockbee Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
Juried Group Exhibitions
2024 Earth & Fire - Stifel Fine Arts Center - Wheeling, WV.
2023 Resident Artist Exhibition – Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT.
Summer - Kolva-Sullivan Exhibition – Seattle, WA.
Meet Me Halfway - Mana Contemporary, Chicago ILL.
Graduate Degree Exhibition – Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
Monument to the Unknown Heroes at the CAC - Luis Camitzer - Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Ebb & Flow - Kennedy Heights Center, Cincinnati, OH. (NCECA)
AAC-CAA, Site1212, Cincinnati, OH. (NCECA)
2022 Cranbrook Chair Show - Detroit Month of Design, First National Building Gallery, Detroit, MI.
CIRCUM-VERDANT - Art Academy of Cincinnati: McClure Gallery, FotoFocus Biennial. Cincinnati, OH.
2021 Breathe - Wave Pool Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
2020 Rebirth BFA Thesis Exhibition – Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
The Masks We Wear - Pendleton Street Photography, Cincinnati, OH
Armory Art Week - Gallery MC, Manhattan, NY
The Art of Food - The Carnegie, Covington, KY
Emerging Artists, Summer Fair Cincinnati - CCAC, Cincinnati, OH.
2019 Celebration of Life: a collection of artwork & food - YWCA Greater Cincinnati, OH.
/just to be alive/ an exhibition of the contemporary female artist, 1628 Ltd. Cincinnati, OH.
150 AAC OTR: Block Party. “Jellyfish,” - recycled material sculpture. Cincinnati, OH.
Double Vision - Visionaries and Voices, Memorial Hall. Cincinnati, OH
2018 Transitions: Twenty Photographers/One Photograph - FotoFocus Biennial 2018, Hoffner Lodge Gallery. Cincinnati, OH.
Flyover Country - FotoFocus Biennial 2018, Xavier University. Cincinnati, OH.
A Shout Within a Storm poetry - Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
2016 Changing Perceptions - Art Beyond Boundaries, Cincinnati, OH.
Notable Collections
- Cincinnati Art Museum – Public collection
- Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts – Public collection
- Sara M. Vance Waddell – Private collection
- Diana Fishbein – Private collection
- Ann Segal - Private collection
- John Berger – Private collection
- Jennifer Gilbert – Private Collection
- Phillip Morici – Private collection
- Bill Ludwig – Private collection
- Caroline Summers – Private collection
- Wayne Boeck – Private collection
Bibliography
2023 Emma Riva, “The Year Ceramics Took Cincinnati”
Belt Magazine, October 4
2023 Birmingham-Bloomfield Eagle
Graduate Students Work Showcased at Cranbrook, April 5
2021 “Fruit That Heals,”
What’s Eating You Project, March 23
2020 Carrie Smith-Blackmore, “Art Gave Erika NJ Allen a New Language,”
Cincinnati Magazine, March 13
2020 Clara Matonhodze Strode, “Home Away From Home,”
Women of Cincy, July 31
