C Y N T H I A F I S H E RJanuary, 2012
15 FORGETTE RD CHARLEMONT, MA 01339 413-625-8204
Public Commissions:
- First City Hall, Water Fountain, Public Art Board, Lauderhill, FL, 7/11
- Laconia District Court, Laconia, NH, NH State Council for the Arts, 2/11
- Shelburne Falls Mosaic Murals, 10/10
- Naples Dental Clinic, Florida Art in State Buildings, 3/10
- Christa McAuliffe Planetarium, Concord, NH State Council for the Arts, 10/09
- “Igniting a Passion for Learning”, Maine Arts Commission, U of Maine, Orono, ME, 11/08
- “Atlantic Salmon”, River Culture Sculpture Competition, Turners Falls, MA, 11/06
- “Taj Mahal”, ‘Butt Stop Art’ competition, Springfield, MA 6/03
Private Commissions in Public Spaces:
- “Spring Dogwood”, St. Vincent Carmel Hospital, Carmel, IN 8/11
- “The Odyssey” garden mosaic installation, Double Edge Theatre Ashfield, MA 7/11
- “Tidal Pool”, Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA 7/10
- “Through the Seasons”, MMC, Worcester, MA9/08
- “Tropical Fish”, “Windy Day on the Charles”; Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 8/08,10/09
- “ Voyage”, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 1/08
- “Trilogy”, Trilogy Apartment Building, Boston, MA 2/07
- “Multiculturalism”, Rogers School, Rogers AR, 12/06
Private Commissions:
Installations in the home in 20 states nationally, and internationally, including floor medallions, kitchen backsplashes, bathrooms, pool and fireplace surrounds, 2002 – present
Selected Exhibitions:
- “National Mosaic Exhibition on Cape Cod”, Falmouth, MA 7-9/11
- “Brookfield Faculty Exhibition”, Brookfield, CT 6-9/11
- “4 Seasons, 5 Artists”, Artspace Gallery, Greenfield, MA 3-4/11
- “Art in Pieces”, Mystic Arts Center, Mystic CT, 10-11/10
- “Contemporary Mosaics”, Attleboro Arts Museum invitational, Attleboro, MA 4-5/10
- “Mosaic Arts International”, Smith Museum of Stained Glass, Chicago, IL 3-7/10
- “The Art of Mosaic, 2009”, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA 9-10/09
- “Home is Where the Art Is”, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 2-5/09
- “Landscapes in Mosaics”, Chicago Mosaic School Gallery, Chicago, IL 2-3/09
- “Mosaics, Naturally”, US Fish & Wildlife Gallery, Hadley, MA, 5-6/08
- “The Art of Mosaic”, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA 9/07
- “Faculty Exhibition”, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA 5/07
- “Beneath the Surface”, High Risk Gallery, Chicago, IL, 3/06
- “Body Image: Animus & Ardor”, Tufts University Slater Gallery, 3/06
- “Hellenic Heritage”, Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA, 11/05
- “Mosaic Women Exhibition”, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod College, 4/04
- “Opus Veritas”, Museo Italoamericano, San Francisco, CA 1/04
- "Mosaics in Good Humor", Forbes Library Gallery, Northampton, MA 2/03
- "Off the Bed: Quilts not for Sleeping", The Art Bank, Shelburne Falls, MA 4/02
Teaching, Consulting, School Residencies, Restoration:
- Restortion of ‘Holocaust’ mosaic at Temple Beth Am, Randolph, MA 2011
- Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA 2007 - present
- Snow Farm New England Craft Program, Williamsburg, MA 2005 – present
- Peters Valley Craft Center, Layton, NJ 2010-present
- Summer Arts Program, Ashfield, MA 2003 - 2010
- Workshops and private classes in my studio, Buckland, MA 2002-present
- Consultant, mosaic projects in Greenfield, Shutesbury, Amherst, Buckland, MA
- Elementary School residencies and community projects in towns of Ashfield, Conway, Rowe, Greenfield, Northboro, Woburn, West Boylston, MA, 2002-present
Grants, Awards and Honors:
- Orsoni Prize 2011, Honorable Mention, biennial International Award for Mosaic Fine Art, (1 of 5 awards granted), Venice, Italy
- Mosaic Art Now, Exhibition in Print, internationally judged competition, 1 of 8 mosaic artists selected from over 100 entries from 19 countries worldwide
- Shelburne Falls Mosaic Murals Project, various grants including Ella Lyman Cabot Trust Foundation, $12,000 and Highland Communities Initiative, $5,000; 2010, $23,050 total raised
- ‘Best in Show Award’, Art of Mosaic, 2009, Somerville Museum, MA, Sept ‘09
- Worcester Art Museum, Francis Kinnicutt Travel/Study Award, for trip to Ravenna, 2008
- Various Massachusetts Cultural Council Grants 2004, 2008,2010
- Xeric Grant, Northampton, MA, 2004, 2010
Publications:
- Levy, Irit and Givens, Pam. Mosaic Fine Art Abstracts, Wordpress Books, 2011
- Rohman, Chris. Wool Sails in the Sunset, Local artists make Double Edge Theatre's Odyssey a shared journey Valley Advocate, 7/28/11
- Mosaic Art Now, Exhibition in Print, featured artist (juried, see above), pp 28-31, 2011
- ‘Pavement Fractals’ mosaic included in Breakout, A Business book for Visual Artists, by Brit Hammer – Dijcks, Blurb books, 2010
- Van Siclen, Bill. Artists Put a Modern Face on Mosaics, RI Providence Journal, 5/5/10
- ‘Featured Artist’ (1 of 5), Art of Mosaic 2009 show catalog, Somerville Museum9/09
- O’Connor, Patrick. A Thousand Little Pieces West County News, 3/2o/08
- Mosaic Art Now, New Directions in Modern Mosaic Art, 2008, gold star award for “Spawning Salmon”
- Heiss, Mary Lou. Into the Woods, Mosaic Tiles Berkshire Living, 5/06, p 110-114
- Stewart, Donald. Tile in Style, Shelburne Falls Independent, 8/05
- Goldscheider, Eric. Bits and PiecesThe Boston Globe Magazine, 2/22/04
- Parnass, Larry. Long-lasting levity in Fisher’s campy mosaics. The Daily Hampshire Gazette, Tuesday, 2/ 22/03, p. C4
- Ray, Virginia. Embroidery in glass: mosaic artist finds her missing piece. The Recorder,Thursday, 10/3/02, A&E p. 1,2
Education:
- Mosaic Art School, Ravenna, Italy, 1 week class, 2008
- Art Institute of Boston, 1987-1989
- Greenfield Community College, 1986-1987
- University of Maine, 1976 -1980, BS Wildlife Biology with High Honors
Other Work Experience:
- Editorial and children’s bookillustrator 1989 – 2007, 35 children’s books published.
- US Forest Service, 1983-1986; US Park Service, 1985
- Peace Corps Volunteer, Philippines, 1980-1982
C Y N T H I A F I S H E R
15 FORGETTE RD CHARLEMONT, MA 01339 413-625-8204