about – cynthia flaxman frank

Cynthia received a B.A. and an M.F.A. from Yale University. She is the owner of Cynthia Frank Design and currently Senior Lecturer in the Art & Art History Department at University of North Carolina Charlotte. She has created public art as part of the award-winning collaboration PAC3, designed text-based murals for The Wall Poems of Charlotte, and exhibited at galleries and museums, most recently at Preservation Hall, Wellfleet, MA; Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC (2023); and Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC (2022). Cynthia lives and works in Charlotte, North Carolina with her husband, a transplant cardiologist—their three grown children are currently spread out across the Eastern seaboard!

Instagram | @cffrank.art
Gallery Representation for Preservare series | Frying Pan Gallery
Please visit Cynthia’s graphic design portfolio | cynthiafrankdesign.com
Get in touch! | cfrank18@charlotte.edu

NEWS
Provincetown Independent: In the Garden With Cynthia Flaxman Frank
Mint Museum: Coined in the South 2022
Southpark Magazine Profile: Painting Pages
Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art: On the Mezzanine
Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art: Artist Talk

PUBLIC ART
2022 | West Boulevard Wayfinding Signage for Corridors of Opportunity, Charlotte, NC

2020–2021 | Lisa Bielawa, Broadcast From Home – Kinetic Type Animations NY, NY

2016–2017 | Peacehaven Community Farm Sensory Space, LeBauer Park, Greensboro, NC | Carrie Gault, PAC3 | Award: SAMA Juried Exhibition, Mosaic Arts International 2017: Site-Specific Mosaic, 2017

2012–2016 | Wall Poems of Charlotte, Charlotte, NC | Night Driving, by William Matthews: 528 North Brevard St. ; Love Comes Quietly, by Robert Creeley: 1500 Central Ave. ; First Novel, by Donald Justice: Treolar House, 7th St. ; Bus Stop, by Fred Chappell: 325 East 9th St. ; These Days, by Charles Olson: 301 E. 7th St. ; Where We Are, by Robert Martin Davis: 321 N. Caldwell St.