About the artist:

Cynthia Archer became partner with Will Petersen and co founder of Plucked Chicken Press in 1978, a hand lithography workshop dedicated to publishing original limited edition lithographs. She exhibited lithographs and won several regional awards in West Virginia. In 1979, they moved the press to Chicago, Illinois, and Archer becane known for her large colorful, mythelogical lithographs. In 1987, the Chicago International Art Exhibition features her painted vessels. She continued exhibiting and publishing prints until 1994 when PCP closed down shop. No longer a lithographer, Archer continued to paint and design. Her largest commission to date is the stained glass window The Sun's Candle, installed in Old Wheeler Hall, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Her most fun? A painted bench for the Chicago Children's Museum. Education: BA 1975: Goucher College, Baltimore MFA 1978: West Virginia University Listed: Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who's Who in American Art Museum and University Collections: National Gallery of Art, New Zealand Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, Portland Museum of Art Illinois State Museum, Springfield The Chicago Children's Museum, Navy Pier, Chicago Carnegie Institute of Natural History, Pittsburgh (Herb diorama) State of Illinois Library, Springfield Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH Chicago Public Library, West Lawn Branch Huntington Galleries, Huntington, WV Northwestern University, Block Gallery Southern Illinois University, Carbondale & Edwardsville University of Colorado, Boulder Bradley University Collection, Peoria Oakton Community College, Desplaines, IL Goucher College, Baltimore University of Chicago Business School Corporate Collections: Borg-Warner, Chicago First National Bank, Chicago F. Thomas Heller Rare Books, Swarthmore, PA Lord, Bissel & Brooke Star Mark, Chicago Peat Marwick & Mitchell, Chicago Arthur Anderson, Chicago Pepsico Corporation Offices, Itasca, IL GATX Corporation, Chicago Kemper Group, Long Grove, IL Amdahl Corn, Chicago Westinghouse, Pittsburgh Law Offices of Barry F. Keller, Bloomfield Hills, MI Fairmont Hotel, Chicago