BIOGRAPHY
As a teenage artist Cynthia was driven to sculpt and do wheel-thrown work in clay, occaisionally sharing her basement studio space and kiln with the small children in her rural Connecticut neighborhood.
After high school she spent several years studying ceramics at The School for American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology. Then she ventured west to Colorado, working a day job as a professional chef, and using food as her artistic medium.
Following 6 years of kitchen work she moved to Seattle and went back to school at Cornish College of the Arts with the intent of developing her artistic voice. Cynthia attended Cornish for several years and began making work in a variety of media (video, painting, plaster, paper and wood sculpture) that spoke about body image for fat women.
Since then she has continued in that theme as well as completed her BA degree in Visual Arts at The Evergreen State College in 2004. Currently she paints and participates at Pratt Fine Art Center in Seattle, WA.