The doyen of the American Craft Movement

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I interviewed Helen Drutt English, the 93-year-old curator, collector, and doyen of the American craft movement for Art & Object. You can read about this amazing woman here: 

https://www.artandobject.com/news/helen-drutt-english-americas-ambassador-craft

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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.

In addition…
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.

Mazlish Gallery charts a path for the self-made artist

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I enjoyed learning about this atypical approach to founding and managing a gallery from the Brooklyn-based gallerist John Mazlish.    

You can read my interview published today on Art & Object: https://www.artandobject.com/news/mazlish-gallery-brooklyn-making-space-self-made-artist 

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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.

In addition…
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.

Writing for a new art publication

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I'm so pleased that I've been asked to write for the new print magazine being published by Art & Object. It's rare that a digital publisher expands to hard copy print on paper. It's usually the reverse. It’s a quarterly and you can subscribe for free.

https://www.artandobject.com/request-magazine

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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.

In addition…
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.

July has Been a Busy Month

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It was a busy month for me that included writing 3 articles published in the July/August edition of Art New England. Strange States https://shelburnemuseum.org/exhibition/new-england-strange-states/ was a wonder to review at the Shelburne Museum, my review of Now You See Me at the Bundy Modern was the result of a long delayed first time visit to this architectural treasure in Vermont and Arlene Shechet's sculpture installation, Girl Group at Storm King was a revelation, a must see before the snow flies.
https://artnewengland.com/july-august-2024-toc/

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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.

In addition…
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.

Experiencing Aboriginal Art in NYC

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Ethics in the art world has come under scrutiny lately and it was inspiring to write about a successful gallery that is both making money and doing the right thing. Here's my article on D'Lan Contemporary published today in Art & Object.

https://www.artandobject.com/news/dlan-contemporary-experiencing-aboriginal-art-new-york   

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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.

In addition…
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.

Innovation at Gallery 1261 in Denver

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The expansive Gallery 1261 in Denver, Colorado offers a unique opportunity for new collectors to build relationships with the artists whose work interests them. I was impressed interviewing one of their newest collaborators, Rose Fredrick, for this gallery profile published today on Art & Object: https://www.artandobject.com/news/collaborative-concept-rose-fredrick-project-space-gallery-1261

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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.

In addition…
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.

LaiSun Keane in Boston

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LaiSun Keane is a gallerist and a mom and a force to be reckoned with in the usually staid Boston art scene. I was pleased to review her entrepreneurial efforts for Art & Object. https://www.artandobject.com/news/merging-tech-and-art-laisun-keane-gallery

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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.

In addition…
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.

My God is Better than Your God

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WOW! June is turning out to be a lucky month for this writer. Another enthusiastic acceptance from Moonflake Press https://www.moonflakepress.com/ in today's email:

Hi Cynthia,

Thank you for your submission. We apologize for the delay in responses, we had an overwhelming amount of submissions to work through!

We would love to publish 'My God Is Better Than Your God' if it's still available? It was a fantastic piece that we know will be perfect for HOLY!

If we can proceed, please respond to this email with a short bio and any social media links you'd like to be published!

Thank you

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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.

In addition…
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.

10 Exhibitions Celebrating a Centennial of Surrealism

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My article, 10 Exhibitions Celebrating a Centennial of Surrealism was just published today on Art & Object https://www.artandobject.com/slideshows/10-exhibitions-celebrating-centennial-surrealism-2024-2025

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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.

In addition…
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.

Stuck on the Staircase published today

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My essay, Stuck on the Staircase, was published today. You can read it here: https://www.twentytwotwentyeight.com/single-post/essay-stuck-on-the-staircase-by-cynthia-close
What's really nice is that these folks pay writers, and while payment is a a requirement when I write art commentary or reviews on assignment, it is a rarity for creative nonfiction.

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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.

In addition…
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.

Acceptances are the reward that keep writers writing...

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The best way for a writer to start the day is when she opens her email and reads this:

Dear Cynthia,

Thank you for taking the time to submit your work to Twenty-two Twenty-eight. We loved your piece "Stuck on the Staircase" and would like to post it on our website. The bio we have for you is as follows:..

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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.

In addition…
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.

Artists and their Mothers

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I wrote this piece for Mother's Day about artists whose mothers served as their muse. It was just published by Art & Object. https://www.artandobject.com/slideshows/8-artists-who-painted-their-mothers-muses-and-metaphors

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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.

In addition…
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.

Nobody Knows I Have a Brother Published in Spellbinder

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Spellbinder Lit Mag has been promoting my essay, Nobody Knows I Have a Brother on Instagram. The full essay is one of the few nonfiction pieces in their current anthology. Since I don't pay much attention to my Instagram account I missed it. https://www.instagram.com/p/C5vJQ2wohSi/ I will be taking part in a virtual public reading for this issue of the U.K. - based anthology on Sunday April 21st 3Pm-5pm or 10am-12pm EST

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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.

In addition…
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.

O'Keeffe & Moore: Giants of Modern Art

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The exhibition O'Keeffe & Moore: Giants of Modern Art currently at the Montreal Museum of Modern Art was a revelation. You can read my review here in Art & Object: https://www.artandobject.com/news/discovering-shared-inspiration-georgia-okeeffe-and-henry-moore

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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.

In addition…
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.

New Nonfiction Essay Published in Spellbinder

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My essay, Nobody Knows I Have a Brother was one of only 3 nonfiction pieces included in the Spring issue of the literary anthology, Spellbinder. You can order a hardcopy here: https://www.spellbindermag.com/issues/spring-2024/

Happy Spring!

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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.

In addition…
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.

Unmasked: Suzanne Benton at the Mattatuck Museum

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I am so pleased that the Artist's Network is honoring my friend, the indomitable Suzanne Benton, by linking her current exhibition at the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut with the feature article I wrote about her that they published in print in 2022.

https://www.artistsnetwork.com/artist-profiles/unmasked/

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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.

In addition…
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.

Essential Artist's Residencies

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I loved writing this article on artist's residencies published today in Art & Object:

https://www.artandobject.com/slideshows/10-inspiring-artist-residencies-around-world

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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.

In addition…
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.

Today's Good News

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YAHOO! It's always a good day when my creative nonfiction gets accepted by a literary publication. This just hit my inbox today:

Dear Cynthia,

We are delighted to inform you that “Nobody Knows I Have a Brother” has been accepted for our Spring 2024 issue of the Spellbinder Quarterly Literary and Art Magazine.

We would like to check that the work we have accepted has not been previously published or self-published. If your work has been and/or is due to be published or self-published (e.g., on websites, social media channels, and/or personal blogs), please notify us immediately.

In order to feature in this publication, you will need to sign the release form attached and send this back to us via email before the 17th of March at the very latest to confirm that you have the full copyright to your work. You can either print the release form, sign it and send us a scanned copy, or alternatively you can sign it digitally and send us the signed copy (.pdf or .doc formats preferred).

You will also need to complete the accepted submissions form.

We pay an honorarium per acceptance after print publication. If you wish to receive this honorarium, please sign up...

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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.

In addition…
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.

Films about art to take your mind off other things

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Filmmakers find a cornucopia of stories in the lives of artists that seems to be bottomless. I periodically write about some of them for Art & Object. My latest suggestions for films to see about art was published today:

https://www.artandobject.com/news/7-art-films-beat-winter-weather

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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.

In addition…
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.

Who is Jerry Saltz and Why Should You Care?

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My article on the art world's most hotly debated curmudgeon, critic Jerry Saltz, was just published today on Art & Object.

https://www.artandobject.com/news/art-critic-jerry-saltz-doesnt-care-hes-controversial

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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.

In addition…
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.