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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Maria Seda-Reeder
Cincinnati Ohio 45223 United States Home Phone: 513-519-5767 Website: Links to my past work online
Bio
Maria Seda-Reeder (she/they) has been co-creating meaning as a writer for as long as she can remember. First published as an elementary student in their local Public Library’s annual poetry journal, Maria has leveraged her penchant for writing in the intervening years on behalf of a more expansive and generous vision of the future.
In late 2024 Seda-Reeder served as juror and co-editor for the forthcoming inaugural issue of “The Poison Garden: a Collaborative Zine Exploring the Presence & Myth of Powerful Plants,” with Appalachian artist and writer Mila Roeder.
In early 2024 Seda-Reeder was selected to attend an eight-week digital writing workshop with Collegeville Institute entitled, “Writing Toward God: the sacred for the perplexed,” with poet Mary Lane Potter and nine other writers from all over the country.
Between 2017 and 2024 Seda-Reeder worked as Director of Exhibitions at Wave Pool, a small artist-driven, community-engaged nonprofit, where she personally supported the Residencies of 13 emerging curators, and more than 20 artists.
In 2022 they spent a week in Olympic National Park as part of the Terminus Glacier Project, which honors the demise of these snow-filled craters, due to climate change. The resulting poem on the Blue Glacier, “Forget-me-not”, was on exhibit at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center throughout August of 2023.
As an independent curator, Seda-Reeder has organized exhibitions at The Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati, OH), The Lexington Art League (Lexington, KY), KMAC Museum (Louisville, KY), LMAK Books+Design (New York, NY), ProArts (Oakland, CA), Salisbury University Art Galleries (Salisbury, MD), The Carnegie Visual & Performing Arts Center (Covington, KY), Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park (Hamilton, OH), The Reed Gallery at the University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH), The Ohio Art Council’s Riffe Gallery (Columbus, OH), and The Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH).
With more than seven years spent writing for their local free weekly press publication, over a decade teaching in academia, and over twenty years of ongoing committed service to the needs and interests of contemporary artists, these days Maria is delving more deeply into her own creative practice as a poet.
Artist Statement
Maria Seda-Reeder is a writer and curator who has been supporting the work of contemporary visual artists for more than two decades.
She believes in the power of words to re-imagine collective possibilities for the future, and that art has the capacity to reflect the current moment—which is always in the process of being co-created.