Words Become Ashes: An Offering

Cindy Rinne is a San Bernardino artist and poet who has created fine art for over 40 years. She was Poet in Residence for the Neutra Institute Gallery and Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Her poems have appeared in literary journals, anthologies, art exhibits, and dance performances. Cindy is the author of several books: Today in the Forest with Toti O'Brien (Moonrise Press), silence between drumbeats (Four Feathers Press), Knife Me Split Memories (Cholla Needles Press), Letters Under Rock with Bory Thach, (Elyssar Press), and others. She has participated in several online group exhibitions through LAAA/Gallery825. Cindy had tapestries in "Woven Stories" at MOAH (Lancaster Museum of Art and History) and at RAFFMA at Cal State San Bernardino for "Voices of Ancient Palmyra Resounded." She participated in "50/50, FIFTY/FIFTY, The Creative Magic of Collaboration" at the Progress Gallery, Pomona, CA. Cindy curated and exhibited at Chaffey Community Museum of Art and the Inland Empire Museum of Art. She exhibited with "Old Broads" curated by Karen Karlsson in several southern California galleries. She has exhibited at the Beatnik Lounge and La Matadora Gallery in Joshua Tree and is represented by Desert Peach Gallery in Yucca Valley, CA.