About My Printmaking
The craft of making prints, with its unexpected outcomes and its long and sometimes meditative process has always drawn me. Admiring the English wood engravings of the 19th and 20th centuries, I set out to teach myself this magic. I discovered too that linoleum block prints could be more than just a 3rd grade project. Then, I had always wanted to learn etching... So, at last, my drawing and painting became potential ideas for prints. I had found my medium. I work with varied print media: linocut, wood engraving, etching, collagraph and monotype...and experiments with combinations of these. My training has been varied as well. After receiving a BA in Fine Arts from Radcliffe College/Harvard University, I studied painting and design at Carnegie-Mellon College of Fine Arts in Pittsburgh, drawing at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland and drawing with William Flynn at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Most importantly, I worked on etching with Selma Bromberg at the Graphic Arts Workshop, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Massachusetts. Images of landscape, weather and seasons have been the core of most of my prints, whether the place is inland Maine or the canyons and deserts of the Southwest. I begin with drawings and photographs from nature and then select and focus these ideas as I work with the print and it develops its own life. My other direction has been continuing interest in the conjunction of poetry and visual images. In my work, I often think about visual ideas and words almost simultaneously. Beginning with seeing something that moves me, drawing and planning a print, I often find that words–phrase or a title–come to me. And the words of a poem will often start sketches in my mind of images for a print.
EXHIBITIONS
Downtown Gallery, Washington, Maine: "Traveling Shoes" group show 2008
Downtown Gallery, Washington, Maine: "Trees: Friends-Symbols-Icons" : two person show 2008
Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine: Juried group show 2008
Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, Maine: invitational group show 2008
Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine: Opening Show (juried) 2007
Downtown Gallery, Washington, Maine: "Visual Chronicles", group show 2007
Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine: "Contemporary Printmaking" (juried) October 2006
Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine: "Maine Printmakers" (juried) October 2006
Downtown Gallery, Washington, Maine: "Out of Bounds", two-person show 2006
Festivo Poetry and Art Festival, Belfast, Maine: "Northern Fusion", prints by Cynthia White with poems by Eleanor Steele, October 2005
Downtown Gallery, Washington, Maine: "Ten Years Downtown", group show 2005
Downtown Gallery, Washington, Maine: "New Work", two person show 2004
Downtown Gallery, Washington, Maine: "Waking Up in Sacred Places",
two person show 2002
Blaine House, Maine Arts Commission, Augusta, Maine: "Details from the Downtown Gallery", group show 2002
Union of Maine Visual Artists, Ellsworth, Maine: "The Strange Life of Objects: Still Life", group show 2001
Union of Maine Visual Artists, Ellsworth, Maine: "Varieties of Printmaking", (juried) group show 2000
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine: group show 2000
Camden Public Library, Camden, Maine: "Journeys in the Lands of Little Rain"
one person show 1999
Portland Museum of Art, Maine Printmakers' Consortium Print Fair 1998
Davidson and Daughters Gallery, Portland, Maine: Ten Maine Printmakers invitational show 1996
Roundtop Center for the Arts, Damariscotta, Maine: faculty show 1996
Artfellows Gallery, Belfast, Maine: three person show 1995
Gibbs Library, Washington, Maine: one person show 1995
Crone's Harvest Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts: group show 1991
Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Boston Area Printmakers (juried) 1982
Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine: Maine printmakers (juried) 1980
TRAINING
Printmaking: Selma Bromberg's Graphic Arts workshop, Cambridge Center for Adult Education 1976-1981
Drawing: William Flynn's class, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1983
Drawing and painting: Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh , Scotland 1973-74
Painting and Design: College of Fine Arts, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1958-59
TEACHING
Art Center at Kingdom Falls, Liberty, Maine , printmaking classes 2000, 2001
MSAD 40, Waldoboro, Maine, Community Education 1999-2000
Medomak Camp, Washington, Maine, Arts Program Director 1999
Round Top Center for the Arts, Damariscotta, Maine, printmaking classes 1998
Medolark Camp, Washington, Maine: Local Artists Coordinator, Teacher 1997
MSAD 28, Camden, Maine, Community Education 1996-98
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