Cynthia Mckean grew up in Montana and Wyoming the horizon there is chiseled against a sky so blue that some say it hurts their eyes. Wide open spaces that go on forever. Mountains thrust upward to the sky. Weather is fierce, be it hot or cold. Wildlife has adapted as had the vegetation sustaining it. People are so few that it is natural for them to become molded by these extraordinary surroundings. 

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She attended a small liberal arts school in WallaWalla, Washington called Whitman College. She graduated in 1963 with a degree in biology. 

Before long, she was working for the Idaho Department of Energy giving seminars on alternative energy. 

 

​By the mid 1990’s, she followed her heart to the local vocational technical center and started welding her own ideas into sculpture. In June of 1997, she began her new adventure as a sculptor. 

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Today she lives in Saugatuck, Michigan. Her studio, fondly referred to as “The Barn”, is down the driveway in the woods behind the house. She continues to find it all enthralling.