Cheryl De Ciantis

My earliest deep fascination was with the Renaissance and Early Netherlandish painters, and my first love was oil painting. Since then I have followed my nose, exploring myriad media: drawing, digital/text and mixed media, and three dimensional making. Most recently, I have created figural sculptures using my own methods, in an engagement with powerful mythical figures: Garuda, Saraswati, Naga Khanya. I am a mythologist as well as an artist, with a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies. My work is a spiritual practice and partakes in a relationship with energy that comes from my shamanic and Tao studies and practices. Art, like every sentient and even 'non-sentient' being in the cosmos, carries its own life. We, as makers, are privileged to help this life come into being.

B.A. in Art History with a Seminar in Conoisseurship, UCLA.
Ph.D. in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, which houses the Joseph Campbell Library and archive.
Certification in Drawing on the Left Side of the Brain from Betty Edwards at California State University Long Beach
I am a Level III Advanced student of Tibetan Bowl Sound Healing; my teachers are Diáne Mandle and Karma Sonam Dorje.

Volcano Art Center at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Barnsdall Park
University of Washington Henry Art Gallery
LaGrange Arts Center, Georgia
Quinlan Visual Arts Center, Gainesville, Georgia
My work is in the collection of the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina.