Kites and Hans de Roos. Munich and Bangkok. !992. What a ride.

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Hans de Roos is one of the most original thinkers I ever had the pleasure of working with. We had a joy ride when he helped me envision and launch ARTWORKS, in Germany in the 1990s. He dabbled in kite building, as a "hobby" and wound up winning accolades. I was his willing accomplice when he designed and built this huge 3D replica of the Santa Maria to celebrate the 500-year anniversary of Christopher Columbus in 1992. We flew it in the Munich Gardens, and it took us both to a dried rice paddy outside of Bangkok where we flew this baby in an international kite festival.

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Cynthia Close

Armed with an MFA from Boston University Cynthia plowed her way through several productive careers in the arts including instructor in drawing and painting, Dean of Admissions at The Art Institute of Boston, founder of ARTWORKS Consulting, and president of Documentary Educational Resources - a nonprofit film distribution company. She now claims to be a writer.

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To support this claim, she is a contributing editor for Documentary Magazine and writes regularly about art, cinema, and culture for, Artist’s Magazine, Art & Object, Pastel Magazine, Art New England, Vermont Woman, and formerly for Professional Artist Magazine. Her creative non-fiction appeared in the 2014, 2016, and 2017 anthology The Best of the Burlington Writers Workshop. Her essays have been published in various literary journals including 34th Parallel, Across the Margin, Adelaide, Agni, Bacopa Literary Review, The Black and White Anthology, Blood and Bourbon, The Brooklyn Film Arts nonfiction prize finalist, From Whispers to Roars, The Longridge Review, Montana Mouthful, Orson’s Review, The Seasons of Our Lives, Swallow Press, The Twisted Vine, Wagon Bridge Press, and The Woven Tales Press, among others. She has read publicly at many venues including the Cornelia Street Café in NYC. She was the inaugural art editor for the literary and art journal Mud Season Review launched in 2014.