Awards, publications, and exhibits

Award winning photograph printed on fabric by Cindy Geary

Awards

2020 Durham Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant for Photography for Landscapes of Ancestral Migration. This grant supported travel to Scott County Iowa where my ancestors arrived in the 19th and 20th Centuries from their northern Germany homeland.

Going to School in Black and White novel by Cindy Geary and Lahoma Romocki

Books

Going to School in Black and White: A Dual Memoir of Desegregation by Cindy Waszak Geary and LaHoma Smith Romocki. Durham, NC: Torchflame Books. 2017. 

Essays

For the love of delphiniums, American Writers Review 2020, San Fedele Press. An exploration of the gifts of love and memory as my mother and I struggled with her dementia.

 
Book cover of the American Writers Review 2020, featuring Cindy Geary
Close up photograph of Cindy Geary’s Delphinium, in association with her eassay in American Writers Review 2020
White space, black spaces image of projected black and white swirls in association with Cindy Geary's essay on Medium

White spaces, black spaces: Urban development and racial justice.

Medium.com. May 2016. 

Exhibits and presentations

2022

Landscapes of Ancestral Migration

By Cindy Waszak Geary

Allenton Gallery, Durham Arts Council

September 30-Novemember 21

Reception Friday, October 21, 6-8pm

In conjunction with Click! Photography Festival

Free and open to the public

2021

Dark path through the light, Flowers faintly shining through, Out of darkness, light, Thistle patch in the field, Thistle, itself from Meadows series, photographic images of meadow landscapes printed on cotton and silk, accepted in 10 Years, 10 Artists Juried Exhibit, FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, January 2021.

2020

Cornflowers and wheat, photographic image printed on muslin, accepted in Resolutions 2020 Juried Exhibit at Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, January 2020, Hillsborough, NC.

Flyer for Resolutions 2020 Juried Exhibit at Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, January 2020, Hillsborough, NC - featuring Cindy Geary
Photograph by Cindy Geary entitled Cornflowers on wheat
Cindy Geary standing in front of the gallery showing of her photograph Cornflowers and wheat, for the Resolutions 2020 Juried Exhibit