The Communicator 05.17.2018
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SFCC’s Art Department comes together over loss of instructor
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Cyndy Wilson, an art instructor at SFCC for 25 years, dies April 28th. Magdalena Clough The Communicator SFCC has lost one of It’s seasoned art instructors. Cyndy Wilson, art instructor at SFCC passed away on April 28. She had been with SFCC for 25 years, and the Art Department has honored her passing with a memorial at her office door, sending flowers to the funeral, and letting classes out early last Friday so that students or faculty could attend her funeral. “We put up a poster on her door,” Bradd Skubinna said, whose office is next to Wilson’s. “Students have taken interest in putting up comments, mostly directed at Cyndy, or her family, saying goodbye.” Leaving notes and drawings on the
poster have been a way for students to say goodbye, or express their grief over losing an instructor. “We gave a book of things to her family from that,” Mariah Boyle said, another Art instructor at SFCC. Boyle said that she takes comfort in believing that Wilson lives on through her students’ work. “What’s interesting about teaching is that the way people draw in particular is influenced by who they took drawing from,” Boyle said. “Even though she’s not with us, all the students carry her with them in a way.” Carl Richardson is the Art Department Chair, and a close friend of Wilson, according to Skubinna. Richardson was collaborating with Wilson on a print exchange with another school when she passed.
The Art Department memorializes Cyndy Wilson’s ofice with notes saying goodbye. which were given to her family and gifts.
“In her honor I’m naming it the Cyndy Wilson Print Exchange,” Richardson Said. “We’re going to do a gallery in the spring of the art that’s contributed, and have a silent auction, and the money goes to our scholarship fund.” The scholarship receiving those donations is set up through the CCS Foundation, and gives cash awards to students excelling in the AFA or CFA programs.
For those who wish to contribute to the memorial, or leave a note, Wilson’s office is room 125 in building 6.
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