Cindy Drozda, Erie Colorado, has worked with wood professionally since her first “real” job at age 19, at a player piano factory, where she taught herself on the job. The need to make a pair of chairs brought her to woodturning, but it was 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. 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 through her online Interactive Remote Demonstrations, as well as through her instructional videos. You can also see her online at clubs, free live streams, YouTube, and social media events. She is a member of the American Association of Woodturners, two AAW chapters, and Lucid Woodturners. Her feeling is that the sharing of ideas in the woodturning community is 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, on Finial Design, Banksia Pods, and a recent one on coloring burls. Cindy will coach you to new levels of excellence in your woodturning!

As a way to help woodturners follow her teaching, Cindy developed a line of tools and turning supplies that she sells on her website. Her website is a tremendous resource of notes and information from her classes and demonstrations.

In 1988, Cindy participated in the first successful west-to–east crossing of the USA 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!

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