Artist Member
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Artist’s BIO
Catherine Cross Tsintzos is an artist who uses her knowledge and experience with her practice to create within the realms of both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary components for outcomes that focus on environmental and social issues, traditional fine craft and sustainability. She has a clear purpose in building and crossing bridges among the arts with a deep focus and balance between artistic practice, teaching, activism and invitation for participation.
Catherine has spent her life’s work developing arts curriculum and arts education opportunities for all ages, abilities and socio-economic backgrounds in all mediums of the visual arts in the Southeast United States. She is honored to have solid experiences rooted in museum education, rural advancement, non-profit arts organizations and community outreach and organization. Catherine is a firm believer in lifelong learning.
Experiences with mediums that provide engagement with nature, processes and elements of surprise like ceramics, papermaking, printmaking and surface design techniques for fiber arts and textiles are experiences Catherine connects with during her personal art making most.
Catherine is a Professional Member of the Virginia Center for the Book, Virginia Humanities at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She is also a member of the Book Arts Guild of Central Florida at Rollins College and the Nature Printing Society.
Artist’s Statement
Catherine began the Art and Agriculture Project series to touch on farming, climate change and the environment, ecological dynamics, historic gardening, swept yards, field to fiber materials, social and cultural issues, historic crops, sewing circles and recorded stories and memories. Planted based works, historic properties of cloth and thread incorporate raw and cooked plant material and plant pigments from natural dyes.
Hand paper making as a medium has enabled connections with agricultural heritage, preservation, conservation and land stewardship.
Working with harvested grapevines, plant stalks, seasonal plant materials and agriculture for handmade paper find Catherine creating boat structures both large and small. She uses her handmade papers for her boats and with her book arts practice as well as creating plant based weavings and handmade plant cordage for binding her books.
Catherine Cross Tsintzos
Instagram: @days_creating
Website: www.catherinecrosstsintzos.com
Email Address: artscommunication@aol.com