Instructor: Cynthia Packard
Monday - Wednesday
June 9 - 11
9am - 3pm (with 1 hour break for lunch)
3 sessions

Cynthia has a reputation for her unique and comprehensive teaching style. For those of you who have not had the opportunity to attend one of her classes, Cynthia teaches with an effective and inspiring process: her method of teaching is supportive and nurturing, asking for the student to search for their personal truth, requiring sensitivity, stamina, commitment, and bravery. Her instruction includes personal attention as well as group critiques and demonstrations, focusing on composition, color, mark making, brush strokes, personal themes and emotional content.

Cynthia Packard is an accomplished artist living in Provincetown, Massachusetts. After growing up in Princeton, New Jersey, she studied sculpture and art history at Massachusetts College of Art. She moved to Provincetown in 1981, where she was tutored in drawing by Fritz Bultman, a painter, sculptor and collagist and close friend of abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann. Cynthia has maintained a studio in Provincetown for 30 years. She has taught at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Scottsdale Art School in Arizona, Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) and Castle Hill School of the Arts in Truro, Massachusetts. At the tip of Cape Cod, Provincetown is considered America’s first art colony, founded by early American impressionist painters. Cynthia teaches intensive workshops at her Provincetown studio. She raised a family of four (Zach, Silas, Caleb and Emma) holds a black belt in karate, and enjoys pickup basketball games.