Cynthia Thompson

Associate Professor

Papermaking and Book Arts

BFA, Printmaking, Maryland Institute College of Art
MFA, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Mason Gross School of Art

Recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions:

the Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking
in Atlanta, GA.
the Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN.

She was the 2003 recipient of the Tennessee State Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant and has been awarded numerous residencies including Yaddo, Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper and most recently a Women’s Studio Workshop Artist’s Book Grant Residency.

She has been selected for inclusion in Hand Papermaking Magazines’ 6th Portfolio Edition: Innovative Printmaking on Handmade Paper and the 5th Portfolio Edition: Watermarks in Handmade Paper: Modern and Historic .

Her work is in the collection of Arkansas State University, the Tennessee State Museum and Dieu Donne Papermill in New York.

cthompson@mca.edu / 901-272-5116

Cynthia Thompson

Associate Professor

Papermaking and Book Arts

BFA, Printmaking, Maryland Institute College of Art MFA, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Mason Gross School of Art

BFA, Printmaking, Maryland Institute College of Art
MFA, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Mason Gross School of Art