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C Y N D Y B A R B O N E
E D U C A T I O N
MFA, Textiles, California College of the Arts 1984
Penland School of Crafts 1980-81
BS, General Studies, State University of New York at Oneonta 1979
The University of London, Visiting Student 1978-79
A W A R D S
New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Award in Crafts 1997 & 1987
Excellence of Design in Weaving, Muse of the Millennium, Seattle, WA, 1998
Kababain Award, The Essential Textile, Guilford, CT, 1995
Artist’s Grant (to exhibit in a not-for-profit space) from Artists Space, New York, NY, 1987
Juror’s Award, Fiber National, Dunkirk, NY, 1986
Toni M. Lowenthal Award, CCA, Oakland, CA, 1983
S E L E C T E D E X H I B I T I O N S
Out Of The Box, Downtown Artist Cellar, Malone, NY, 2024
Critical Forum Artist Exhibition, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY 2024
Extra/Ordinary, Albany Public Library Pine Hills Branch curated by Opalka Gallery 2024
Craft: A Force in Contemporary Art, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, 2023
Made in NY 2023, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY 2023
X International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art 25 Years WTA, Miami International Fine Arts, Miami 2022
Excellence in Fibers VII, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY 2022
IX International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art WTA, online generated from Santiago, Chili 2021
Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region 2020, Albany Institute of History & Art, 2020
Infinite Uncertainty, Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY 2020
Mohawk Hudson Regional Invitational 2020, Albany Center Gallery, March 31- May 1, 2020
The 8th International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art WTA, Sustainable City, Madrid 2019
Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY 2019
12th Annual Members’ Show, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY 2017
Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY 2016
5th Annual Juried Group Show, Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville, NY 2016
10th Annual Members’ Show, Albany Center Gallery (honorable mention), Albany, NY 2015
Fine Craft Show, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY 2014
SUNY Faculty Invitational, SUNY System Administration, Albany, NY 2014
Summer Art Faculty Exhibition, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 2013
Fence Select, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY 2013
Grand Tales of the Loom: Four Master Weavers, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA 2013
8th Annual Members’ Show, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY 2013
Affinity: Cyndy Barbone, Deborah Carlson, Fuyuko Matsubara, Bhakti Ziek, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH 2012
7th Annual Membership Show, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY 2012
Living | with | Art at 17 Chapel Street thru Albany Center Gallery 2012
Dior paper dress, Corolle, made for Margo Mensing’s exhibition, It’s Not Unusual, Saratoga Arts Center 2010
Visual Arts Faculty, Dietel Gallery, Emma Willard School, Troy, NY
Visual Arts Faculty of Emma Willard School, Adirondack Community College, Queensbury, NY 2004
Spirit-Hands-Threads, A National Fiber Exhibition, Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2003
Visual Arts Faculty, Dietel Gallery, Emma Willard School 2003
Fiber Survey, Snyderman/Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2002
SOFA Chicago with Synderman Gallery of Philadelphia, Navy Pier, Chicago 2002
Fiberart International ’01, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA 2001
Art Faculty Exhibition, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College 2001
S O L O & T W O P E R S O N E X H I B I T I O N
64 years, 75 Days a Queen-Portraits & Tiaras, North Country Community College, Ticonderoga, NY 2016
Cyndy Barbone & Barbara Cooper, University Center Art Gallery, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville 1999
Tree of Life & Other Garden Weavings, Small Gallery Valley Artisans, Cambridge, NY 1999
Outside In- the work of Cyndy Barbone & Carol Vossler, Lake George Arts Project 1998
Cyndy Barbone/Tapestry, Ande Roesser/Paper Sculpture, Textile Art Center, Chicago, IL 1987
Cyndy Barbone-Weavings, Lake George Arts Project 1987
C O M M I S S I O N S
Hotel Saranac, Collaboration with Susan Hoffer for Five Paintings for the Grand Hall, Saranac Lake, NY 2017
C O L L E C T I O N S
Hotel Saranac, Saranac Lake, NY
Institutional Venture Partners, Menlo Park, CA
Ellen Wells, Textile Arts International, Minnesota & Florida
Private collections throughout the United States
P U B L I C A T I O N S
Fiber Art Now, Vol. 11, Issue 2, Spring 2022, Excellence In Fiber VII, p 44
Paul Grandohl, “A rose for each of the state’s 48,475 victims,” Times Union, Albany, NY, June 16, 2021
“Weaving Women’s Stories with Cyndy Barbone,” AHA! A House for the Arts, PBS, WMHT, Albany, NY, Aired March 9, 2020, Season 6, Episode 5.
Fiber Art Now, Vol. 2, Issue 2, Winter 2013, “Grand Tales of the Loom: Four Master Weavers,” Noelle Foye, pp. 14-15
Artist, Vol. 350, July 2004, “Cyndy Barbone” Article in Chinese, Minghui-Liu
辛蒂. 芭丰雙層嵌織的知心畫 纖維藝術當代織畫畫藝術家系列— 藝術家 2004年7 月
Fiberarts, Vol. 26/No. 2, September/October 1999, “Profile, Cyndy Barbone: A Weaver of Pictures that Portray a Moment,” Margo Mensing. p 15
Fiberarts Design Book Five, 1995, edited by Ann Batchelder & Nancy Orban, Lark Books, Asheville, North Carolina, p. 103
Fiberarts, Vol. 19/No. 3, November/December 1992, “Kindred Visions: Pushing the Limits of Weaving,” Margo Mensing, pp. 57-58
Weaver’s, Issue 18/3rd Quarter 1992, “Kindred Visions: A Review,” Patricia Malarcher, pp. 28-29
Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, Vol. XXII/No. 3, summer, 1991 “Weaver/Storyteller,” pp. 26-27
Fiberarts, Vol. 17/No. 5 March/April 1991, “Fiber Education in the 1990’s,” Chelsea Miller, p. 21
T E A C H I N G / P R O F E S S I O N A L O P P O R T U N I T I E S
Visiting Artist, The Vocabulary of Weaving with Bhakti Ziek, Penland School of Craft, NC. Oct 14-18, 2019
Adjunct Instructor, North Country Community College, 2012 – 2023
Co-owner, B TWEED D – Hat designs using upcycled clothing and vintage trims, 2015-present
Instructor, Skidmore Summer Arts, June 30 – August 1, 2014, Intro to Fiber Arts; July 1 – August 2, 2013, Intro to Fiber Arts
Arts Instructor, Emma Willard School, Troy, NY 2002 – 2009.
Visiting Artist, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, April 5-7, 2011
Visiting Artist, North Country Community College, March 2 & 3, 2011
Visiting Artist, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, October 25 & 26, 1999
Visiting Artist, Skidmore College, Fiber Program, October 5, 1999
Visiting Artist, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Textile Design/Fiber Arts Program, November 13, 1996
Instructor, Penland School of Crafts, Imagery with Dyed Warps, June 23- July 5, 1996
Visiting Artist, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Textile Design/Fiber Arts Program, April 19, 1995
Panel Discussion with Laura Strand Mills & Cynthia Lewis, moderated by Susie Brandt in conjunction with the exhibition,
Dialects of the Language of Weaving- Form/Story, Memory Adirondack Community College, Queensbury, NY, 1995
Instructor, Summer Six, Skidmore College, Introduction to Fiber Arts, June 30 – Aug.6, 1993
1993-94 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Skidmore College, Nov. 20, 1993