Resume
Cynthia Armstrong
WORK EXPERIENCE
Art Educator - Winslow Art Center, 2020-2021
Art Educator - Santa Cruz Art League, 2020
Art Educator - "Travel Sketching Online", Santa Cruz Art League; Santa Cruz, CA 2020
Art Educator - "Seascapes in Watercolor", Santa Cruz Art League; Santa Cruz, CA 2020
Art Educator - "Watercolor Essentials", Santa Cruz Art League; Santa Cruz, CA 2019
Art Educator - "Seascapes in Watercolor", Santa Cruz Art League; Santa Cruz, CA 2019
Art Educator - "The Illustrated Journal", Santa Cruz Art League; Santa Cruz, CA 2018, 2019
Art Educator - "Travel Sketching", Santa Cruz Art League; Santa Cruz, CA 2018, 2019
Art Educator - "Landscapes in Watercolor", Santa Cruz Art League; Santa Cruz, CA 2018, 2019
Art Educator - "Watercolor Techniques", Santa Cruz Art League; Santa Cruz, CA 2018, 2019
Art Educator - 3 Botanical Sketching Workshops", UCSC Arboretum & Botanical Gardens; Santa Cruz, CA 2019
Art Educator - "Nature Sketching 2.0", Santa Cruz Art League; Santa Cruz, CA 2019
Art Educator - "Holiday Watercolor Workshop", Santa Cruz Art League; Santa Cruz, CA 2018
Art Educator - "Introduction to Gouache Workshop", Santa Cruz Art League; Santa Cruz, CA 2018, 2019
Art Educator - "Keeping a Nature Sketchbook", Santa Cruz Art League; Santa Cruz, CA 2018, 2019
Art Educator - "Journal Sketching", Santa Cruz Art League; Santa Cruz, CA 2018, 2019
Art Educator - Field Sketching, AmeriCorps - Valley Women's Club of San Lorenzo Valley, Felton CA. 2015-2018.
Art Educator - "Field Sketching and the Illustrated Journal", University of California; Santa Cruz, CA 2014
Art Educator - "Art Everyday: Creative Block Busting", Santa Cruz Art League; Santa Cruz, CA 2014
Art Educator - "Field Sketching and the Illustrated Journal", Santa Cruz Art League; Santa Cruz, CA 2013
Board of Directors - Santa Cruz Mountain Arts Center, Ben Lomond, CA, 2013 - 2014
Youth Program Director - Santa Cruz Mountain Arts Center, Ben Lomond, CA 2012 - 2014
Art Educator - "Field Sketching and the Illustrated Journal", Santa Cruz Art League; Santa Cruz, CA 2012
Art Educator - "Drawing from Nature", Santa Cruz Mountain Arts Center; Ben Lomond, CA 2012
Art Educator - "The Art of the Illustrated Journal", Aromas Hills Artisans, Aromas, CA 2012
Human Anatomy & Physiology/Chemistry/Bioethics Teacher Monte Vista Christian School Watsonville, CA 2006 to 2011
Biology Teacher/Anatomy & Physiology Teacher Ann Sobrato High School Morgan Hill, CA 2005-2006
Educator/Artist in Residence Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Munising, MI September - October 2000
- Participated in educational outreach program for local schools by teaching illustration as an integral strategy for developing observation skills in the science discipline
- Developed artwork for National Park interpretive signs
Educator Consultant/Illustrator New York Botanical Garden New York, NY June 1999
- Developed botanical illustrations for Dr. Dennis Stevenson, 'Cycads of Columbia'
- Developed botanical illustrations for Gerardo A. Aymard, 'Davilla sp.'
Educator/Artist in Residence Glacier National Park West Glacier, MT June- July 1998
- Developed artwork for National Park interpretive signs, handouts and trail guides
Teaching Assistant University of California Santa Cruz, CA August 1997 - June 1998
- Provided supplemental instruction in Natural Science Illustration to certificate graduate students
Teaching Assistant University of California Santa Cruz, CA January 1994 - June 1994
- Coordinated student research projects for lower division undergraduate geology course
- Co-Responsible for weekly discussion sections, writing assignments, grading exams
Research Assistant Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Moss Landing, CA September 1989 - June 1993
- Assisted in collecting data on marine invertebrate wall communities in Alaskan fjords as part of NOAA grant
ART RELATED WORK HISTORY
Science Illustrator Freelance Consultant
Partial list of clients:
Santa Cruz City Museum of Natural History; Santa Cruz, CA
U.S. Forest Service, Mono Basin Scenic Visitors Center; Lee Vining, CA
California Native Plant Society; Bishop, CA
New York Botanical Garden; New York, NY
Scientific American Magazine; New York, NY
WildEarth Magazine; Richmond, VT
U.S. National Park Service; Pictured Rocks National Seashore, MI
Herbario Universitario; Guanare, Venezuela
Maine State Museum; Augusta, ME
U.S. National Park Service; Glacier National Park, MT
PUBLICATIONS - ILLUSTRATIONS
Santa Cruz Art League Newsletter, volume 25, Issue 2, April 2012
"Wabi-Sabi: Flawed Beauty"
Cycad Classification: Concepts and Recommendations, Pp 173-194, 2004 for D. Stevenson
'Zamaceae of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru'
The Botanical Review 70(2) 194-234, 2004 for D. Stevenson
'Cycads of Colombia'
Coastlines, Volume 31/ No. 2, Fall 2002
‘Lake Ontario Algae Workshop’, p.19; two illustrations; Ulothrix and Spirogyra
Flora de Colombia, Volume 21, Nov. 2001
‘Cycadales’, pp.39, 44, 52, 63; multiple illustrations
Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine, University of Nebrask Press 2001.
'Ellipsoidal Clay Pot', fig. 3-3, p. 78
2000 Interpretive Sourcebook, The National Association of Interpretation (NAI), Nov. 2000
‘Creative Block Busting’
Polar Biology, Volume 22, Aug 1999
‘Sedimentation and Composition of Wall Communities in Alaskan Fjords’, pp. 38-49
EDUCATION
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, STANFORD, CA June 2005
- M.A. Education and California Single Subject Credential in Biology
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ, CA June 1998
- M.A. Science Communications – Science Illustration
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN JOSE, CA June 1993
- B.S. Marine Biology with Honors, Chemistry Minor