Cynthia Kresse received her Master of Arts in Medical Illustration from the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas. Self-employed as an artist and a sculptor, Kresse’s artwork is displayed in exhibits and galleries regionally. She has taught life drawing at the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, and the Eureka Springs School of the Arts.  For five years, Kresse created the weekly cartoon “Chakra People” for local paper, Lovely County Citizen. She also provides physicians and lawyers with medical illustrations for medical texts, lectures and legal cases. As a part of a volunteer medical team, she has traveled to San Marcos, Honduras to provide medical care.  Kresse is on the medical staff and sees patients at the non-profit, all volunteer ECHO clinic, which provides free medical care to low-income people in Northwest Arkansas. Currently she is employed part-time at a rural clinic as an Advance Practice Nurse Practitioner, which allows a studio schedule and supports her art career. 

art exhibits

Cynthia Kresse’s  work has been selected for multiple competitive exhibits. This includes 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.  Suzanne Weaver, Associate Curator of the Dallas Museum of Art commented that the “subtle almost completely abstract interiors” were noted for their “manipulation of light and atmosphere”.