Cynthia Kresse received her Master of Arts in Medical Illustration from the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas. She has taught life drawing at the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, and the Eureka Springs School of the Arts. She was chosen for an artist’s residency at the Vermont Studio Center.Kresse’s artwork is displayed in exhibits and galleries regionally.

As medical staff, Kresse sees patients at the non-profit, all-volunteer ECHO clinic, which provides free medical care to low-income people in Northwest Arkansas. As a part of a volunteer medical team, she has traveled to San Marcos, Honduras to provide medical care. Part-time employment as an Advance Practice Nurse Practitioner at a rural clinic allows a studio schedule and supports her art career.

art exhibits

Cynthia Kresse’s work has been selected for multiple competitive exhibits. Among these are several inclusions in The Delta Exhibit, a juried regional exhibit held at the Arkansas Arts Center, Arkansas’s “Forty Women Over Forty”, “Prints, Drawings and Photographs”, and “National Biennial Exhibition”. Her work earned Second Place in the “National Museum of Women in the Arts” Exhibit.