KIANA WATERMAN
EDUCATION
B.F.A. Fine Art, Ashland University, Ashland, OH - December 2019
B.A. Commercial Art, Ashland University, Ashland, OH - December 2019
M.F.A. Painting + Drawing, Ohio University, Athens, OH - Incomplete
DESIGN EXPERIENCE
DISRUPT Media | Graphic Designer | Zanesville, OH (Remote) | July 2022 - Present
Creating text and graphics for clients’ social media pages.
Designing logos and establishing brand style guides for companies.
Generating unique ideas for posts, illustrating ad campaigns, and organizing assets.
Cannabis Museum | Intern | Guysville, OH | May 2021 - September 2021
Designing merchandise, visual identity, and website.
Collaborate with other interns in collections management, storage, and documentation.
Kennedy Museum of Art | Educations Programs Assistant | Athens, OH | November 2020 - May 2021
Designing educational PDFs to accompany educational videos and teach staff how to use Adobe software.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant | Structure + Space | Ohio University, Athens, Ohio | Fall 2020
This course explores the use of structure and space as physical, conceptual, and organizational practices in contemporary art and design. Students develop their ideas through composition and fabrication, considering issues such as scale, site-specificity, repetition, impermanence, and performativity. Individual and collaborative making provide the opportunity for students to explore, define, and create organizational systems and structures.
Teaching Assistant | Painting: Alternative, Digital, Temporal Modes | Ohio University, Athens, Ohio | Spring 2021
Introduction to alternative painting and drawing media and modes. Learn an array of flexible and expressive possibilities opening new dynamic, creative directions for the student. Integration of evolving new media platforms and artistic self-expression. Use art-making strategies in a variety of forms which may include mixed media, experimental art materials, installation, creating and manipulating images in digital formats, and time-based media.
Teaching Assistant | Art and Hip Hop | Ohio University, Athens, Ohio | Summer 2021
Hip Hop culture has profoundly influenced art since the 1970s. Hip hop has given voice to new art forms and new approaches to existing art practices. Its underlying concepts have been adapted worldwide into art unique to diverse geographic and cultural locales. Art and Hip Hop will explore this phenomenon within the context of traditional and contemporary art; polyculturaslism and multiculturalism; activism and politics; and gender and race.
MUSEUM + GALLERIES
Coburn Art Gallery | Gallery Assistant | Ashland, OH | May 2016 - September 2018
Installed and uninstalled artwork, managed social media, assisted visitors, and provided security for artwork.
Served as an instructor for gallery outreach programs such as Art Saturday and Art Camp.
Mansfield Art Center | Intern | Mansfield, OH | November 2017 - April 2018
Updated website, assisted outreach, and instructed classes of various age groups.
Worked part-time in summer as an instructor of youth and adult classes.
PRESENTATIONS
OAEA Symposium | 2021
History of Japanese Art Guest Lecture | 2021
Undergraduate Capstone Defense | 2019
Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium | 2019
Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium | 2017
GRAPHIC + WEB DESIGN
Nic & Jourdan Wedding Invitations | 2022
Buzzard’s Family Shoes Website | 2020
Susan Shafer Artist Books | 2018-2019
Richland Gro-Op Logo | 2018
EXHIBITIONS
Women of Resilience | Massillon Museum of Art, Massillon, OH | 2021
Rites of Passage | Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH | 2020
Fresh Looks 2020 | Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI | 2020
M.A.D.E. in Ashland | Ashland, OH | 2020
Meditation on the Flesh - Kiana Ziegler Senior Show | Coburn Art Gallery, Ashland, OH | 2019
Graphic Design Senior Show | Coburn Art Gallery, Ashland, OH | 2019
AWARDS + HONORS
Senior Art Department Academic Honors Award | Ashland University | 2019
Outstanding Senior Award | Coburn Art Gallery | 2019, 2020
Juried Student Exhibition
Design and Illustration Award | 2018
People’s Choice Award | 2017, 2018
Best in Show Award | 2017
Bernini Art Award | 2016
Congressional Art Competition Jury Member | 2017, 2018, 2019
Non-Participant 3rd Place for URCA Idea Competition | Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (URCA) Symposium | 2016
Alpha Lambda Delta Membership
Academic Honors Program Scholar
SCHOLARSHIPS
John Hanley Memorial Scholarship | Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults | 2018
Artistic Scholarship | Against the Grain Productions | 2016
FREELANCE WORK
Wedding Invitations | Athens, OH | 2022
Website Design and Photography | Buzzard’s Family Shoes, Loundonville, OH | 2020
Portrait | Ashland Theatre Department | Ashland University, Ashland, OH | 2018
Mural | Undergraduate Writing Center | Ashland University, Ashland, OH | 2018
Illustrations | Masterminds Escape Room and Game Library | Ashland, OH | 2017
Mural | Men’s Soccer Locker Room | Ashland University, Ashland OH | 2016