Cynthia Ramirez

Background

About Cynthia Ramirez

Experienced Professor Of Art with a demonstrated history of working in the arts and arts education industry. Skilled in Art, Management, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Excel, and Customer Service. Strong arts and design professional with a Master's of Fine Art focused in Painting and Printmaking from University of New Orleans. Cynthia Ramirez is a multi-media artist who has exhibited her work in numerous local, national and international exhibitions. She received a B.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University (1986) and a M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of New Orleans (1990). She is a Professor of Fine Art at Southern University at New Orleans and taught visual art at New Orleans Recreation Department Commission (2015-19). She taught eight years in the Talented in the Visual Arts Program for the Orleans Parish Public Schools. She was Program Coordinator for the Art’s Council of New Orleans’ Urban Arts Training Program, a summer job program for youths creating public art in the New Orleans community. She was awarded an Adolph Gottlieb Emergency Assistance Grant and Joan Mitchell Assistance Grant 2006. She has created a Day of the Dead Altar at the Louisiana State Museum: Cabildo, the U.S Mint, The Ogden Museum of art (2012 -15) and the Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, LA in November 2006-17. She has served as a panelist for the Visual Artist Fellowship for the Louisiana Endowment for the arts and the National Endowment of the Arts Visual Art Grant panel for art education. She is a founding member of the Second Story Gallery Artist’s Co-op at the New Orleans Healing Center. She has been the Religious Education Director at CCUU from 2006-2007 and 2012-present.