St. John's Woods (2006) Painting by Cecil Herring

Cecil Herring loves to make art in the many media she uses: oils, watercolors, acrylic, sculpture in bronze, electroforming, welded steel, copper, aluminum, plastics, one of a kind experimental jewelry, wearable art, and digital art.

A native of Miami, FL Cecil has shown internationally in Beijing, China, Cologne, Germany and across the U.S. in New York, Miami, San Francisco, other Florida cities as well as Southern states of Alabama, North Carolina and Georgia. She has had 33 solo shows and more than 100 juried, group invitational exhibits.

Working as writer-photographer for Florida Today, Melbourne Times, Fairchild Publications and Reuters News Services, Cecil covered the Apollo Moon Program at the Cape including the troubled Apollo 13 mission, subject of, “The Right Stuff.”

She photographed, interviewed and wrote feature stories about German rocket scientist Dr. Wernher von Braun on Apollo 11 launch day, Russian Poet Yvgeny Yevtechenko, Dr. Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and Mel Fisher, discoverer of the Atocha, the sunken 16th century Spanich galleon and Dame Sybil Leek for Time Magazine. Cecil won a Penney-Missouri Journalism Award for her feature stories at Florida Today.

Recently, Discovery Channel’s production company interviewed Cecil about her involvement with the Apollo 13 launch. The interview is scheduled to air in 2006.

Seeing rocket launches, meeting astronauts and rocket scientists inspired Cecil's lifelong interest in space travel and space art. Her first sculpture installation was called Spacescapes®, at Center Gallery, 49 W. 57th St. NYC., October, 1971. Channel 7, ABC NEWS covered the show on its 6 p.m. news program in Manhattan.

Cecil studied art at U. of Florida, Seminole Community College, Arrowmont School of Crafts and received her Bachelor of Arts in Humanities the Arts, sculpture, painting, writing, theatre, and music at University of Central Florida in 1986.

In the early 80s, she got sick from all her metal work and told to gave up welding and plating and all metal working. She was able to continued creating models in wax and non toxic materials. She now supervises castings at a foundry, along with the polishing and patinaes.

Continuing her search for 'clean' media, she discovered digital art and computer generated art. She studied for almost 2 years, received certification in Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark and Painter in 1995. In 1995, her digital work was incuded in WWOL, "World's Women On-Line," a digital presentation sponsored by the United Nations and shown by battery powered computer at the 10th Women's Conference in Beijing, China. She helped set up a digital art institute and taught digital art at Stetson University in 1996-1997. In 2000, she won a Kodak Innovator Award for large format digital printing."Koi" her digital art work created from 4 photos was published in Photography, 7th Edition, Prentice Hall. P. 246 20...

• Nationality: UNITED STATES
• Date of birth : unknown date
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• Groups: Contemporary American Artists