Creating a grid layout within a widget on my HP that displays blog categories

I’m trying to figure out how in the world to create, within a widget on my homepage, how to create grid of images that display my different blog categories…then, I want to be able to click on the image to access the blogs within each category listed in a grid format. I’ve been using Content Views and tried to get help from them, but apparently they can’t create the category grid first…It may just be that I can’t do this with the theme I’m using (Genesis Framework with Author Pro Theme from StudioPress), but figured I’d put it out there to see if perhaps anyone knows of a plugin that does this.

Here is an example of my goal…below the main image on: there is a image list…if you click on topics, there’s a neat grid of the posts.

Thanks!

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