MFA Rochester Institute of Technology
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I consider myself a note-taker and a record keeper. I record the visual noise that surrounds me. By juxtaposing remnants of visual information that cross my path, I can open a discussion about contemporary values. For instance, I may receive shopping coupons, a telephone bill, and a birth announcement jumbled in the afternoon mail; I may pickup the morning paper and there, next to a movie ad, read about an international crisis or the death of an adolescent. How do we (you and I) absorb and prioritize such disparate information? I don't pretend to know the answer. I merely witness and recycle - take notes, record, and return the visual noise back into the world from which it came.
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Cynthia Marsh is a narrative artist. She uses large, hand-carved wood letters to begin a conversation that takes form in books, broadsides, and printed environments. As founder and director of the Goldsmith Press & Rare Type Collection @ Austin Peay State University, she invites people in the Clarksville / APSU community to express their opinions and tell their stories with APSU’s vast collection of wood type, Since its inception in 1997, the Goldsmith Press has received 16 local, regional, and / or federal grants to support community and student-centered projects.
Recently Professor Marsh hosted the 2016 College Book Arts National Conference, lectured at the Museum of Modern Art – PS1, presented at the Getty Center / Scripps College Symposium on the books of Ed Ruscha, and exhibited at the Frist Center in Nashville, the Groilier’s Club in NYC, and with the Pacific Standard Time Project in Los Angeles. Ms. Marsh was also selected to be an artist-in-residence at WSW Malmo, Sweden, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, and Warm Heart Papermaking Workshop in Arusha, Tanzania and at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Roslindale, NY.
For 20 years, before moving to Clarksville, Cynthia Marsh operated a successful freelance illustration and print studio in Los Angeles. Album covers she created for the music industry garnered Grammy nominations; her illustrations, limited edition prints, and artists’ books won numerous awards from professional arts organizations such as the Los Angeles Advertising Club and the NYC Society of Illustrators. Creative work by Cynthia Marsh has been featured in U.S., British, and Japanese publications.
Recently Professor Marsh hosted the 2016 College Book Arts National Conference, lectured at the Museum of Modern Art – PS1, presented at the Getty Center / Scripps College Symposium on the books of Ed Ruscha, and exhibited at the Frist Center in Nashville, the Groilier’s Club in NYC, and with the Pacific Standard Time Project in Los Angeles. Ms. Marsh was also selected to be an artist-in-residence at WSW Malmo, Sweden, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, and Warm Heart Papermaking Workshop in Arusha, Tanzania and at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Roslindale, NY.
For 20 years, before moving to Clarksville, Cynthia Marsh operated a successful freelance illustration and print studio in Los Angeles. Album covers she created for the music industry garnered Grammy nominations; her illustrations, limited edition prints, and artists’ books won numerous awards from professional arts organizations such as the Los Angeles Advertising Club and the NYC Society of Illustrators. Creative work by Cynthia Marsh has been featured in U.S., British, and Japanese publications.