"These days I contemplate the relevance of living as a practicing artist on a planet torn by conflict and exploited for resources. I am blessed to live where the fireflies emerge on the first warmest night of spring, where earth and weather miraculously transform seeds into food, where I have a studio and home in one living, breathing, synergistically, evolving globe of blue delicately suspended in a galaxy among galaxies. How does my work as a potter contribute?
Working for many years as a potter develops qualities which I must believe are of benefit: caring attention, dedication, honesty, courage, passion, hard work, commitment to beauty, and a willingness to get one’s hands dirty.
The process of working with clay connects me with mystery. As in the ancient art of alchemy, the essential elements, earth, water, air, and fire combine through the mediation of the potter to create form: new pots. Are these objects the artist’s philosopher’s stone? Dirt transformed to gold? Beyond use and aesthetic pleasure/ innovation, do consciously-made pots carry some ineffable ability to inspire, heal, and transform? What lies embedded in the stone of fired clay by the creative, alchemical bond between material, process, and person? What may be conveyed through use or enjoyment? A hand grasps a handle, compassion arises in the heart.
This is what I pray for as I sweat before the firing kiln. I thank the earth, the water, the air, the fire: the substance/sustenance of life."

Education: 1991: Student, Visual Design Program, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.
Student, Ceramics Program, University of Oregon.
1975: AB, General Studies Cum Laude, Harvard University.

Recent Teaching Positions: St. Petersburg Clay Company, St. Petersburg, FL.
Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD.
Miami Ceramic League, Miami, FL.
San Jaun College, Farmington, NM.
Canton Clay Works, Canton, CT.
Odyssey Center for the Arts, Asheville, NC.
Carolina Clay Matters, Charlotte, NC.
Findhorn Foundation, Forres, Moray, Scotland, UK.
Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, MA.
Harvard University Ceramics Program, Cambridge, MA.
Emma Willard School, Troy, NY.
Penland School, Penland, NC.

Recent Gallery Shows:
2004: “The first Taiwan Ceramics Biennale 2004, International Competition”,
juried, Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.

“Handle It”, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA.
“100 Teapots 2”, Baltimore Clayworks Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
2003: “A Passion for Pottery”, Clay and Paper, Inc., Dunedin, FL.
“Cups”, Gallery on the Green, Shelburne, VT.
“Benefit Cup Auction”, Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, CO.
“30 x 5”, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA.
“Gertrude Graham Smith”, solo show, The Kiln Door, Durango, CO.
“Geoge E Ohr National Arts Challenge 2003”, juried, Ohr-O’keefe Museum, Biloxi, MS.
“Steeped in Tradition”, Ariana Gallery, Royal Oak, MI.
“Mastery in clay”, Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA.
“Salt and Pepper”, Odyssey Center for the Arts, Asheville, NC.
“New Directions, Southern Connections: Potters of the Roan & Tapestry Weavers South Exhibition”, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN.
“Women in Clay”, Odessey Center for the Arts, Ashville , NC.
“Art and Function”, Summit One Gallery, Harwichport, MA.
“Summer Invitational”, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM.
“Potters of Roan”, The Seen, Decatur, GA.
“Worcester Pottery Invitational”, Worcester Craft Center, Worcester, MA.
“Instructors Show’, Odyssey Gallery, Asheville, NC.
“Hundreds of Cups”, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM.
“Spotlight 2003”, juried, Blue Spiral 1, Ashville, NC.
“Tea Time”, Boulder Arts & Crafts Cooperative, Boulder, CO.
“National Teapot Show”, Mudfire Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
“Dinner is Served”, Worcester Craft Center, Worcester, MA.
“NCECA Clay Nation”, juried, San Diego, CA.
“Mt. Hood Community College Invitational Cup and Saucer Show’, Gresham, OR.

Recent Awards: 2003: NCECA Clay National, Jurors Purchase Award, San Diego, CA.

Recent Publications:
2003: Clay Times, photo, Volume 9, Number 2, March/April 2003.
500 Bowls, edited by Kathy Triplett, photos, Lark Books, NC.
Recent Publictions Continued:
NCECA Journel 2001, article entitled Cynthia Bringle, a Fine Teacher .
Ceramics Art and Perception, vol. 48, photo, pg. 28.
2001: The Art of Contemporary American Pottery, by Kevin Hluch, photos, . Krause Publications, Iola, WI

Recent Professional Experiences:
2003: Juror, “100 Teapots 2”, show held at Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
2002: Juror, elected, American Craft Council Screening Committee for 2003 shows, Ceramics.

Careering through Life:
1994-present: Studio Potter, Bakersville, NC.
1994-1996: Program Director, Sirens Workshop Center, Provincetown, MA.
1993: Artist-in-Residence, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT.
1986-1991: Faculty, Potter, Staff Member, Findhorn Foundation, Scotland.
1987: Artist-in-Residence & Clay Studio Coordinator, Penland School,
NC.
1985-1986: Studio Assistantships, Penland School, NC and Haystack School,
ME.
1978-1986: Professional Potter; and member, and sometime officer of Island
Artisan, INC., a cooperatively owned and operated gallery in
Bar Harbor, ME.
1982-1985: Facilitator, Mt. Desert Island Hospital Chemical Dependency
Unit, Bar Harbor, ME.
1976-1978: Staff Member, Potter, Cook, Findhorn Foundations, Scotland.

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