CYNTHIA HRON
164 Westwood Drive, Winfield, PA 17889 570-490-4885 cindihron@gmail.com
EDUCATION
SITES AP, GBCI
ASLA Associate
MLA, Penn State University, University Park, PA
MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
BFA, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS
Community Giving Foundation Grant - In Fill PA 2023
Puffin Foundation West Ltd. Grant - Site Exchange 2022
PA-DE ASLA Student of Merit Award 2019
College of Arts & Architecture, Penn State University, Creative Achievement Medallion, 2019 Penn
State University Graduate School Professional Master’s Excellence Award, 2019
Olmsted Scholar Nominee for Penn State, 2019
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, artist fellowship, 2008
Pollack-Krasner Foundation grant 2005
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Special Opportunities Stipend, ‘05, residency
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Special Opportunities Stipend, ‘05, exhibition
Mesa Arts Center, National Drawing 2001, jurors award, Mesa ,AZ 5/01
Bloomsburg University Foundation Grant, 1999
Special Initiatives, School of Arts & Sciences, Bloomsburg University 1999
The Pritzker Foundation Endowed Fellowship, “The Gift of Time” ‘97
Mesa Arts Center, ‘From Every Angle’, natl sculpture exhibit, award, Mesa, AZ 12/96
NE Arts, Special Projects Grant, ‘SITE OMAHA’ public art project w/ Bemis Center for Cont. Art, ‘96
Alaska State Council on the Arts, visiting artist, Intl. Gallery of Contemporary Art, 1995
Nebraska Arts Council, individual artist grant, 1995
Connemara Conservancy Artist Grant, Dallas, TX, 1995
Mid-America Arts Alliance, fellowship, drawing, 1994
Nebraska Arts Council, individual artist grant, 1994
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminars, NY, NY, 1993
Arts International, Fund for US Artists at Intl Fest. & Exh., Meeting of the Worlds Festival, Joensuu, Finland, 1990
California State Graduate Fellowship, 1989/1990
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Landscape Design and Planning, NPS River, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program
Director, Trails and River Towns, Susquehanna Greenway Partnership, 2020-2021
Landscape Designer, Environmental Planning & Design, Pittsburgh, PA, 2019
Research Assistant, Penn State Univesity, University Park, PA 2018-2019
Research & Teaching Assistant, Penn State University, Univeristy Park, PA 2017-2018
Adjunct Faculty, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
Adjunct Faculty, Pennsylvania College of Technology Williamsport, PA
Temp. Faculty, Bloomsburg University, Spring 2011
Faculty, Sabbatical Replacement, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA ‘98/99
Adjunct Faculty, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA ‘98 - ‘00
Faculty, Sabbatical Replacement, Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NE, ‘94/95
Adjunct Faculty, University of Nebraska - Omaha, ‘92 - ‘94
Adjunct Faculty, Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NE ‘91 - ‘94
Graduate Asst, Suzanne Lacy, Dean & Linda Fleming, Chair, Sculp Dept CCAC,1/90-6//90
Graduate Assistant, to Bella Feldman, Professor of Sculpture, CCAC, 9/89 - 12/89
Art Faculty, Greenwood Friends School, Millville, PA ‘07-12
Art Faculty, Greenwood Friends School, Millville, PA ‘97-98
NOVA Theraputic Community, Omaha, ‘92 & ‘93
Instructor, Art/Design Studio, ATD Program, University of California - Berkeley, ‘90/91
Instructor, Raskob Learning Institute, Oakland, CA, ‘89/90
Instructor, Summer Art Workshops, City of Sacramento, 6/88 - 8/88
Instructor, Otis/Parsons Art Workshops, Los Angeles High School, 1987
INTERNSHIPS
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA 9/88 - 12/88
California Arts Council, Art in Public Buildings Program, Sacramento, CA 9/87 - 2/88
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS AND COMMISSIONS
IN-FILL PA, 2023
Site Exchange, Central PA 2022
Sculpture in the Park, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY ‘06 - ‘07
Make Hay, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY 2005
Shift, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, ‘02-05
Spillway Gate, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Ontario, Canada, 5/99 - 5/00
Nest, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, SMIP Ranch, Woodside, CA 1997
finalist, North Sea Tac Park, Entryway project, King Co Art Com,, Sea Tac, WA 1997
‘SITE OMAHA’, temporary public art project, Omaha, NE 1996
of Men and Beasts, Livestock Exchange Building, lobby, Omaha, NE 1995
Canal Park Public Arts Project, Duluth, MN - sidewalk medallions 1991
The Container is Not Empty, Otterbein Park, Rowland Heights, CA 1987
RESIDENCIES
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE May 2005
Djerassi Artist Residency, Woodside, CA October, 1997
Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium, April 1996
Bemis Foundation Alternative Worksite, Omaha, NE 9/91 - 12/91
the Island, San Mateo, CA May - June 1991
LECTURES & PANELS
Building Connections, Schools as Community Hubs, University of Melbourne, International Conference, The
Lasting Influence of John Dewey’s Philosophy on Community Schools in the US, ‘20
American Society of Landscape Architects, Annual Conference, Game Changer Presentation
Environmental Design Research Association, poster, ‘20
Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA ‘Applied Landscape’ ‘07
Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, ‘Sculpture in the Expanded Field’, Ont. Canada 8/04
Lycoming College, ‘Public Art Overview’, Williamsport, PA 10/03
Bald Mountain Art League, Guest Speaker, Williamsport, PA 10/03
James Madison University, Guest Speaker, Harrisonburg, Virginia, 10/02
Five & Dime Cultural Center, Guest Speaker, Bloomsburg, PA 10/02
Region 8 Art Teachers, Bloomsburg, PA 1/01
Bloomsburg University, Guest Speaker, Bloomsburg, PA 11/96
NE Art Association ‘Issues in Art and Creativity - Fr. Inspiration to Realization, Kyle MacMillan, Omaha
World Herald, Sheldon Mem Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE 4/96
International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK 11/95
Bellevue University, Bellevue, NE 11/94
Bemis Foundation, Omaha, NE 12/91
PUBLICATIONS & LISTINGS
Nature as Partner: How School Communities Benefit from Ecological Connections, chapter in eBook Schools as community hubs: Global perspectives on building 'more than a school' for community benefit, Eds. Philippa Chandler, Benjamin Cleveland, Sarah Backhouse, Ian McShane, Clare Newton, and JanetClinton, University of Melbourne, Springer, 2022
Conference Proceedings, Building Connections, Schools as Community Hubs, The lasting influence of John Dewey's philosophy, University of Melbourne, International Conference,‘20
Environmental Design Research Association, conference proceeding ‘20
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, conference proceedings, Synthesis of Research Provides
Guide for Public School Design, ‘20
Drawing Center, NYC, Viewing Program, current since 2012
‘Manifest’ Drawing Annual, ‘05, Creative Research & Drawing Ctr Manifest Press 2006
‘The Sculpture Reference’, A. Williams, Sculpture Books Publishing, 2004
‘Beginning Sculpture’ Arthur Williams, Davis Publications, pgs 124, 184, & 187, 2005
American Art Collector, Book 3 North, editor Tom Palmer, Alcove Books 2004
LECTURES & PANELS
Building Connections, Schools as Community Hubs, University of Melbourne, International Conference, The
Lasting Influence of John Dewey’s Philosophy on Community Schools in the US, ‘20
American Society of Landscape Architects, Annual Conference, Game Changer Presentation
Environmental Design Research Association, poster, ‘20
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, poster, Synthesis of Research Provides Guide for Public
School Design, conference proceedings ‘20
Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA ‘Applied Landscape’ ‘07
Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, ‘Sculpture in the Expanded Field’, Ont. Canada 8/04
Lycoming College, ‘Public Art Overview’, Williamsport, PA 10/03
Bald Mountain Art League, Guest Speaker, Williamsport, PA 10/03
James Madison University, Guest Speaker, Harrisonburg, Virginia, 10/02
Five & Dime Cultural Center, Guest Speaker, Bloomsburg, PA 10/02
Region 8 Art Teachers, Bloomsburg, PA 1/01
Bloomsburg University, Guest Speaker, Bloomsburg, PA 11/96
NE Art Association ‘Issues in Art and Creativity - Fr. Inspiration to Realization, Kyle MacMillan, Omaha World
Herald, Sheldon Mem Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE 4/96
International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK 11/95
Bellevue University, Bellevue, NE 11/94
Bemis Foundation, Omaha, NE 12/91
Academic Talent and Development Program, University of California, Berkeley, CA 7/89
COLLECTIONS
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA 2016
King County Public Art Collection, Seattle, WA 2007
Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA 2007
Anglo Irish Bank New York, NY 2005
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE 2005
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 2005
University of CA San Diego, Mandeville Special Collections Library, 2004, “Topo Book”
City of Omaha ‘96, ‘of Men and Beasts’
City of Duluth, MN ‘90, sidewalk medallions
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Back Pain, Montgomery College, Cravitz Arts Ctr, Silver Springs Campus, MD 2015
Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA 2009
The Klemm Gallery, Sienna Heights University, Adrian MI, ‘08
Applied Landscape, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA ‘07
Home Turf, Visual Arts Center of Clarington, Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada ‘05
Voids, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA 11/01
Recent Work, West Chester University, West Chester, PA 10/00
Pensilis II, installation, Triangle Gallery, Sinclair College, Dayton, OH, 2/00
Pensilis, installation, Spaces, Cleveland, OH 12/99
Den, installation, Barn Gallery, University of Tennessee, Murfreesburo, TN, 8/99
Charts, installation, Site Story, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, 6 & 7/99
Bins & Funnels, installation, Mallin Gallery, Kansas City Artists Col, KC, MO 7/98
Harper and Hron, Haas Gallery of Art, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA 2/97
Recent Drawings and Prints, Carnegie Arts Center, Leavenworth, KS 8/96
Gangway, installation, University of Denver 1/96
Points and Measures, installation, Intl. Gallery of Cont. Art, Anchorage, AK 11/95
Recent Drawings, The Gallery at Stevenson Union, Ashland, OR 9/95
School Desks and Playgrounds, Peter Kiewit Conference Center, Omaha, NE 3/95
Bins and Boxes, installation, Bellevue University, Bellevue, NE 11/94
Stockyard Drawings, Northcutt Steele Gallery, Montana State U - Billings, MT 10/94
Mining/Farming, installation, Livestock Exchange Building, Omaha, NE 8/94
Everything but the Squeal, installation, Omaha Stockyards, NE 4/94 - 8/94
Two Legs/Four Legs, installation, Omaha Stockyards, NE 10/93 - 3/94
Stockyard Drawings, Luther College, Decorah, IA 9/93
Pig Headed, installation, Omaha Stockyards, NE 10/92 - 2/93
When Hogs Fly, installation, Omaha Stockyards, NE 7/92 - 9/92
MFA Exhibition - Dwntn Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 4/90
Building Bridges, Institute for Design and Experimental Art, Sacramento, CA 3/90
Paths, North Gallery, Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, CA 4/86
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Future Places, Susquehanna Art Museum, City Island Verdant, 2022
Nature of the Future: Artists Confront the Anthropocene, Leu Gallery, Belmont University, Nashville, TN 2022
Fantastic Fibers, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY, 2017
Welcome to My World: Mental Health Awareness Through Art, Miri Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT, 2016
Fiber Arts International 2016 Pittsburgh Center for Craft
Take Ten, The Gallery at Penn College, Williamsport, PA 2016
“Passages: An Exhibition of Figurative Abstraction” AD Gallery, University of NC Pembroke, NC ’14
Project Gallery, Philadelphia, PA ’09, ‘10
Points of View, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 2010
Espace Vert, Flatfile Gallery, Chicago, IL, ‘08
Line, Estel Gallery, Nashville, TN ‘08
Contemporary Works, Baik Min Museum, BoSung, South Korea, ‘08
Synchronicity & Harmony, Center of Contemporary Art, Gwangju, South Korea, ‘07
Arte Natura, Limner Art Gallery, Hudson, NY, ‘07
Sculpture New Hope, New Hope Arts Center, New Hope, PA ‘07
Children’s Museum Exhibition, Art Space, Bloomsurg, PA ‘07
31st Bradley Intl Print & Drawing Exhn, Heuser Art Ctr, Bradley U, Peoria, IL ‘07
Women’s Art Show, Bloomsburg University Multi-Cultural Center, ‘07
Bathing Beauties, Linear Gallery of New Seaside Architecture,Lincolnshire Coast, UK ‘06
Drawing: Tradition & Innovation, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA ‘05
Industrial Interchange Organic, Peck Arts Center, Central Wyoming College, ‘05
Make Hay, Winner Memorial Gallery, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY ‘05
Summer Exhibition, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY ‘05
California Landscapes, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA ‘05
6th Annual Juried Exhibit, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA ‘05
Border to Border, national drawing exhibit, Austin Peay State University, ‘05
Myth, Magic & Meaning, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA ‘05
Imagine That, National Book Arts Exhibition, La Jolla Fiber Arts, La Jolla, CA ‘04
Invitational, Artspace, Bloomsburg, PA ‘04
Epoque, International Festival of Contemporary Art, Kwangju, Korea ‘03
Summer Exhibition Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, NE ‘03
ISC@GFS, Intl. Sculpture Center Exhibit at Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ ‘03
Small Treasures, Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, NE ‘01 & ‘02
National Drawing 2001, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ 5/01
Animals in Art, Anchorage Museum of Art, Anchorage, AK 6/99 - 5/00
Small Treasures, Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, NE 12/99
Moment in a Period of Transition, Orebro ‘00, Hamnmagasinet, Orebro Sweden 99
Gathering of Women, Robeson Gallery, Penn State University, University Park, PA ‘99
Sumer Exhibition, Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, NE 6/99
Small Treasures, Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, NE 12/98
Two views of Self - Revisited, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE 10/98
Two views of Self, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE 8/97
Neo-Landscapes, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL 8/97
Works on Paper , St. Petersberg Art Center, St. Petersberg, FL 2/97
From Every Angle, Mesa Art Center, Mesa, AZ 12/96
Proposals, by Artists , Bellevue University, Bellevue, NE 11/96
Prints, Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, NE 11/96
Turning the Page, Book Arts Hawaii, the Printmakers Gallery, Honolulu, HI 10/96
‘SITE OMAHA,’ Original artworks exhibit, Jackson Artworks, Omaha, NE 10/96
Equinox II, Intl. Print Exchange, United States, Belgium and the Netherlands, 9/96
Juried Print Exhibition, Hastings College, Hastings, NE 9/96
New Work, Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, NE 8/96
Summer Show, Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, NE 6/96
Bodies of Work, Salina Arts Center, Salina, KS 12/95
Small Treasures, Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, NE 12/95
Survey, Speculate and Prospect, installation, Connemara Conservancy, Dallas, TX ‘95
Sacred Cows, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL 8/94
NE Women’s Caucus for Art, Hillmer Art Gallery, College of St. Mary, Omaha, NE 10/93
Culture and Agriculture 1993, New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI 5/93
University of Nebraska Art Faculty Exhibition, Omaha, NE 1/93
Blue Book Chronicles/About War and Peace, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA 7/91
Chain Reaction, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, 12/90
FLAG, 1990 Annual Exhibition, Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, ‘90
MFA Grp Exhibition, Oliver Art Center, CA College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 4/90
Competition Diomede, The Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY 5/89
Marlene Angeja, Meredith Broberg, Cynthia Harper, Art Store Gallery, Oakland, CA ‘89
Members Salon - 15th Anniversary of the Women’s Building, Los Angeles, CA 10/88
Northwest Juried Exhibition ‘88, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA 4/88
Visual Articulations ‘88, CAED Gallery, Texas A & M University 4/88
Women’s History Month Exhibit, City Hall, Los Angeles, CA 3/88
Berkeley Art Center Annual Juried Exhibition, Berkeley, CA 2/88
San Diego Art Institute 33rd Annual Juried Exhibition, San Diego, CA 10/87
California Works, Sacramento, CA 8/87
BFA Exhibition, Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, CA 5/87
Eighteen Artists for Lunch, LA Eats, Venice, CA 4/86
REVIEWS
The Frederick News and Post, Silver Spring, MD 5/7/15
The Sentinel, Silver Springs, MD 4/15
Gazette.net Maryland Community News Online, 4/15
Inside MC online of Montgomery College, 4/16/15
WVIA, Art Scene with Fiona Powell, audio interview, 4/07
The Daily, Features, Murfreesboro, TN/ LaSonya Washington, 9/2/99
Kansas City Star, Preview/Art, Alice Thorson, 8/9/98
Art Ed; A Site to Behold: Creating Curricula Re: Local Urban Environ Art, Thurber, 11/97
Public Art Review, Recent Projects, Fall/Winter 1996
Omaha World Herald, Living, Kyle Mac Millan, 10/23/96
Omaha World Herald, Living , Jane Palmer , 10/8/96
Channel 7, Omaha, Cindy Andrew, 9/1/96
Omaha World Herald, Art, Kyle MacMillan, 8/11/96
Anchorage Daily News, Jan Ingram, 11/12/95
Anchorage Press, Ann Sharp, 11/9 - 15/95
Channel 2, Anchorage, Sheila Balistreri 11/95
Dallas Morning News, Plano, Lori Fairchild, 3/10/95
The Siskiyou, the Scene, Christi Courian and Elena Arosteguy, Ashland, OR 9/25/95
The Reader, Mike Scheef, Omaha, NE 9/13 - 27/95
Omaha World Herald, Art, Kyle MacMillan, 8/21/94
The Daily Nonpareil, Business, Jim Rodenberg, Council Bluffs, IA 3/5/93
The Des Moines Register, Agribusiness, Mike Whye, 10/4/92
Omaha World Herald, Business, Steve Jordan, 7/13/92
