Cynthia Nourse Thompson

The curator of more than 50 exhibitions since 2000, Cynthia Nourse Thompson is a book artist herself. Prior to her current role as professor and director of curatorial affairs at the Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art at Kennesaw State University, Thompson was associate professor and director of the graduate programs in book arts and printmaking and studio art at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has also served as associate professor and curator of exhibitions at University of Arkansas and curator and consulting director of visual arts at the Walton Arts Center both located in Fayetteville, Arkansas; twelve years as professor of book, print and paper arts and chair of fine arts at Memphis College of Art; and additionally worked at Dieu Donné Papermill, Harlan & Weaver Intaglio and Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper now the Brodsky Center at PAFA. Thompson has been awarded numerous residencies including Yaddo, Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Women’s Studio Workshop, Visual Studies Workshop, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Penland Winter Residencies, and a Maker-Creator Fellowship at Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library. She also served as a visiting scholar and printer in residence with her collaborator David Charles Chioffi at the Bodleian Bibliographical Press in Oxford U.K. in May 2022. Thompson has also been visiting faculty at University of Georgia’s study abroad program in Cortona, Italy and Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence, Italy. Thompson received her BFA in printmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.