Skip to content

Cynthia Ryan Kelly

Everybody Do Your Share SOLD

  • home
  • exhibition seeking a venue
  • series
    • social justice
      • structural racism
      • freedom summer paintings: a mississippi season of harassment, terrorism and progress
      • stories about mountaintop removal
    • landscape
    • figurative
    • still life
    • postcards
      • overstamped: a postcard project with leslie keats since 1992
    • reimagine 2024
    • prhbtn 2023
    • horsemania 2022
  • about
    • a little bio
    • statement
    • exhibitions
    • collections
    • just another telling page
  • contact
    • contact
    • thank you

freedom summer paintings: a mississippi season of harassment, terrorism and progress

Guardians Against the Grain

water-based media on panel| 48" x 54"| 2015

Overseeing the shift. It takes a lot of faith.

The Search

water-based media on panel| 48" x 54"| 2015

FBI team scours the bogs for bodies of James, Mickey and Andrew

We Shall Be Released by 10:00pm

water-based media on panel| 48" x 54"| 2015

Don't be out after 10pm.

Kiss Good-bye the White Mansions

water-based media on panel| 48" x 54"| 2015

KKK are threatened by interracial romances.

Hell's Confetti

water-based media on panel| 48" x 54"| 2015

Molotov cocktails blow up SNCC offices.

What The Neighbors Saw

water-based media on panel| 48" x 54"| 2015

Southern Runes

water-based media on panel| 30" x 40"| 2015

private collection

Ella, Diane and Fannie Lou Watching

water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015

A Second Kiss Is In Sight

water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015

Clandestiny

water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015

Study for Hell's Confetti

water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| private collection

Molotov Cocktail For Tradition

water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015

Study for The Search

water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015

Study for What the Neighbors Saw

water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015

Study for Guardians Against the Grain

water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015

Not Where You Want to Be

water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015

Not Everything Means Progress

water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015

Carrying around the shame that I so ignorantly walked the campus where 700 plus daring students and activists learned how to survive and I never once paid them homage.   Thus, this body of work.  I mean, goddamn.  

©2025 CYNTHIA RYAN KELLY. Special thanks to LESLIE KEATS (the other half of Overstamped) for the original design and to BIRDBOAR for their facilitating it.
  • home
  • exhibition seeking a venue
  • series
    ▲
    • social justice
    • landscape
    • figurative
    • still life
    • postcards
    • reimagine 2024
    • prhbtn 2023
    • horsemania 2022
  • about
    ▼
    • a little bio
    • statement
    • exhibitions
    • collections
    • just another telling page
  • contact
    ▼
    • contact
    • thank you