kauri bowl

Cindy Drozda, Boulder Colorado, has worked with wood professionally since her first “real” job at age 19, where she taught herself to work with wood. The need to make a pair of chairs brought her to woodturning, but it was the pictures of bowls, vessels, and boxes in the back of Dale Nish’s book that really got her hooked. Before settling on woodturning as a career Cindy worked as a cabinet maker, rebuilt airplanes, machined metal, and made hang gliding equipment. Today, her pieces are exhibited at the finest art shows and galleries. Her elegant lidded vessels and boxes with delicate finials bring a contemporary flair to classic forms. A jewel hidden under the lid symbolizes the treasure that life reveals when we make the effort to look deeper. Her trademarks are precise techniques, fine details, and pleasing forms. Cindy shares her knowledge and passion as an international demonstrator and teacher, as well as through her instructional DVD/videos. She is a member of the American Association of Woodturners, the American Craft Council, and two AAW chapters, and sees the sharing of ideas in the woodturning community as vital to the health and growth of individuals, the community, and “Wood Art” in today’s world. She has written several articles for the AAW Journal, including one on “Finial Design”. In 1988, Cindy participated in the first successful west-to–east crossing of the US by non-powered hang glider, and in 1998 she flew an experimental airplane to Oshkosh for the world’s largest airshow. Woodturning is her latest exciting adventure!

- Cindy Drozda