Awards, publications, and exhibits
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.
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.
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.