Our Founder

    As a teenager in Indianapolis, Cindy did poorly in modeling school: she preferred decorating shows to walking the runway, and often ditched class to haunt the library across the street where she “discovered” Picasso.

    After graduating with a B.F.A. from Colorado State, she taught high school art in Boston for eight years. Cindy returned to school and completed an M.F.A. in sculpture at the Museum School, Boston. Her graduate show consisted of performance art, using fabric sculptures inhabited by herself and her partner. She has been a visiting artist at Arizona State and a teacher at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine.

    For the past twenty years, building Transformit has taken much of her time, but she has managed in the meantime to raise a family, found a high school, serve on the governor’s Creative Economy Steering Committee, and earn numerous international awards for her artistic and business achievements.