ARTIST RESUME
Cathy Leaycraft
…seeing the world creatively.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Getty Center Library, Los Angeles, CA.
Metropolitan Museum, New York City, NY. Mid-Manhattan Library, New York City, NY.
MOMA Library, New York City, NY. Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ.
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. Tate Gallery, London, England
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England Yale University Art and Architecture Library, New Haven, CT.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Rehoboth Beach Municipal Building, Rehoboth Beach, DE. February-April 2023
Gallery 239, Chadron State College, Chadron, Nebraska, February 20 - March 24, 2017
Rehoboth Art League, Rehoboth, DE. May – June 2015
Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA. Feb.- March 2014
LaGuardia Gallery of Fine Art, New York City University, NY. Oct.-Nov. 2012
GROUP EXHIBITIONS SELECTED:
Baker Artist Portfolios: Off the Web, Peale Museum, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 7, 2024 – Jan. 19, 2025
Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery, The Changing Americas 2024, Annapolis, MD, Aug. 28 -Sept. 21, 2024
Rehoboth Art League, 11th Regional Juried Biennial, Rehoboth Beach, DE. Aug. 23- Sept.22, 2024
Las Laguna Art Gallery, The Second Half (50+), Laguna Beach, CA. June 6-28, 2024
Washington County Museum of Fine Art, 2024 Cumberland Valley Artists Competition, Hagerstown, MD June 15 - August 25, 2024
Las Laguna Art Gallery, Small Works – Big Talent, Laguna Beach, CA. December 7-29, 2023
Maryland Art Place, Generation Crit Two, Baltimore, MD November 3, 2023 – February 1, 2024
Maryland Federation of Art, Small Wonders, Annapolis, MD, November 29 – December 23,2023
Alexandria Museum of Art, Louisiana, The 36th September Competition, Alexandria, LA, July 1- October 7, 2023
Las Laguna Art Gallery, Figures or Faces, Laguna Beach, CA. March 2-31, 2023
Rehoboth Art League, 85th Members Fine Art Exhibition, Rehoboth Beach, DE. July 21- August 20, 2023
Allegany Arts Council – From Marina to Mountain 2022 Exhibition, August 6-27, 2022
Alexandria Museum of Art, 35th September Competition, Alexandria, LA. July 8-October 8, 2022
Adkins Arboretum 2022 Juried Art Show- Discovering the Native Landscapes of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, March 1, April 29, 2022
Chestertown River Arts, Local Color, Chestertown, MD. July 1-29, 2022
Rehoboth Art League, 10th Regional Juried Biennial, Rehoboth Beach, DE. Aug. 26- Sept.25, 2022
Maryland Federation of Art, American Landscape 2022, Annapolis, MD. Aug. 31-Sept 24,2022
Abington Art Center, Summer Juried Show 2019, Jenkintown, PA. June-July 2019
Full Circle Gallery, Women’s Exhibition, (invitational) Baltimore, MD. May 18 – July 27, 2019
Ormond Art Museum & Gardens, Art is the Child of Nature, (3-person Exhibition) Ormond Beach, FL. September 21-October 26, 2018
Community Arts Center, (Horizon: Contemporary Landscape), Danville, Kentucky September 8, - November 11, 2017
Touchstone Gallery, (40th Anniversary Show, Invitational), Washington DC, May 4 – 29, 2016
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, (2016 Annual Cumberland Valley Photographic Salon
Award), Hagerstown, Md. January 23, - April 10, 2016
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS:
Juror’s Choice Award, Allegany Arts Council 2022
Honorable Mention, Adkins Arboretum 2022 Juried Art Show,
Dr. and Mrs. Robert K. Hobbs Award, Washington County Museum, Hagerstown, Md. 2016
Juror’s Choice Award, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD. 2016
Honorable Mention Award, Nature’s Arcade, Flag Pond Nature Park, Lusby, MD. 2015
Honorable Mention Award, Fredericksburg Center for the Arts, Fredericksburg, VA. 2014
Second Place Award, Adkins Arboretum 2014 Art Competition, Ridgely, MD. 2014
BOOKS PUBLISHED:
TRANSFORMING IDENTITY: Sex Change at Sixty-Six, 2022
NATURE PORTRAITS, 2016
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:
International Photographic Society of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. December 2014
EDUCATION:
The Maryland Institute Collage of Art
Studied with photographer Duane Michals