gates for the stand, and incorporating art by other Alabama artists in the project. She published photographs from her Alabama residency in the book The Rural Studio Bonus Album. Connolly's Alabama photo collection has been shown in four main solo exhibitions as well as group gallery shows, including Transformer Gallery, Auburn University's Rural Studio, SUNY Purchase, amongst others. Her photographic series of "Ice Machines", and her postcards, books and the cover artwork for Minor Threat's "Out of Step" EP were featured in an art exhibition Beautiful Losers, reviewed in Art in America. Connolly collaborated with Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth on the 2004 book Lengths & Breaths, with her photography illustrating Ranaldo's text.The work exhibited at Civilian Art projects in 2012 made its way to the collection of the J Paul Getty Museum in her home town of Los Angeles, California. Cynthia Connolly continues to exhibit her photography and create ephemeral objects using her letterpress and photographs. She is the Special Projects Curator for Arlington County, Virginia. Her work with Arlington County and the Arlington Art Truck earned a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2017 and was nominated for the Robert E. Gard Award from Americans for the Arts in 2019. Publications Books Banned in DC: Photos and Anecdotes from the DC Punk Underground (79-85). By Cynthia Connolly, Leslie Clague, and Sharon Cheslow. Sun Dog Propaganda, 1988-2015. East to West: Trucks Driving. By Cynthia Connolly. Sun Dog Propaganda, 1999. Lengths & Breaths. Text by Lee Ranaldo, Photography by Cynthia Connolly. Water Row Press, 2004. Big Lots. By Cynthia Connolly. Deadbeat Club, 2015. Stories from the Island of Big Sur.'' Edited by Cynthia Connolly. Self-published, 2020. Collections Connolly's photographs, books, and ephemeral art are archived in museums and libraries internationally. Collections list The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC Corcoran Legacy Collection: The Katzen Museum, Washington, DC Smithsonian Museum of American History, Washington, DC DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC Luther Brady Collection, George Washington University, Washington, DC University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado Deutsche Bank Art Collection, London, England Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Archive of Documentary Arts, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina DC Punk Archive (Washingtonia/Special Collections), DC Public Library, Washington, DC Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland Michigan State