Cindy Rinne is an artist who explores fiber media; her works are colorful and tactile, employing collage, poetry, and a touch of whimsy.

“To experiment is at first more valuable than to produce; free play in the beginning develops courage.” Josef Albers

"The concepts for my mixed media textile art works often begin with nature walks, my poetry, a spiritual experience, an exploration of materials, my life story or an observation of other people’s stories.

Each fiber work is its own journey. I use many different materials to create mixed media textile art. People give me pieces of their past in fabrics, vintage buttons and laces so each art work represents community. There are layers revealing destruction, change and beginnings. Thread is drawn free-form like paint on canvas. Drawing and painting with markers, inks and paints brings the individual work of my hand. Additional layers of embellishment and hand embroidery add texture and dimension. This is a connective process that creates a whole out of pieces."

• Song
• Airborne
• Heaven Laughed
• Contemplation of the Sea
  
• Germinate
  
• Intonation
  

Tina's Dress. It is 16x10" of vintage fabrice, linen, paper, beads, cotton, marker. It is part of the Ghost Fish Series which will be featured at Buddhamouse Emporium in Claremont, CA in April 2014.

Cindy Rinne creates art and writes in San Bernardino, CA. Cindy won an Honorable Mention in The Rattling Wall Poetry Contest. Cindy is a Guest Author for Saint Julian Press. She is a founding member of PoetrIE, an Inland Empire based literary community. Her work appeared or is forthcoming in A Narrow Fellow, shuf poetry, Poetry Quarterly, The Prose-Poem Project, The Wild Lemon Project Literary Journal, Welter Literary Magazine, The Sand Canyon Review, Inlandia, A Literary Journal, Lili Literary Journal, Tin Cannon Literary Review, and Phantom Seed. She has recently completed a new poetry manuscript, The Feather Ladder. Cindy is collaborating on two chapbooks and working on her second manuscript. www.fiberverse.com.

LINKS

www.inlandiajournal.org, Vol. III, Issue I – Winter 2013, Poetry: Chalking (audio version too)

www.yvonne-brown.com, blog, National Poetry Month Celebration, Featured on 4/11/13