Public Art
Cynthia has designed and directed large-scale public art projects throughout Chicago for the past 25 years. She works closely with clients and architects and invites community participation in the development and design of a project. She believes that successful public artworks can activate the public imagination, transform anonymous spaces into meeting places, and become elegant points of pride for communities.
Rio de Bienvenida/River of Welcome
Canalport Riverwalk Park, Chicago, 2023
E(art)H Chicago Project Award
Artists, Cynthia Weiss & Delilah Salgado
Partners, Citlalli Trujillo, Dr. Rachel Havrelock, & UIC Freshwater Lab,and Chicago Public Art Group; Sculpture Fabrication: Vector Custom Fabricating, Chicago
Digital Design: Neon Fab Studios, New York. Tile installation: Brian & Nick McGlade
Before/After
Mosaic Artist team: Julia Sowles-Barlow, JoVonna Jackson, Mimi Thran, Dani Melen
and, Mirtes Zwierzynski, Dorian Sylvain, Citlalli Trujillo, Stephanie Strickland, & Catherine Cox
Funders: E(art)H Chicago, Builders Initiative; Individual Artist Support grant, Illinois Arts Council; QTS Data Centers; and University of Illinois System Presidential Initiative for the Arts & Humanities. https://earthartchicago.org/rio-de-bienvenida/
Mosaic Benches
Decatur Classical School, Chicago IL 2022
with Mirtes Zwierzynski, Margaret Koreman, and 6-8th grade students
Fabric of our Lives
Bernard Horwich Jewish Community Center, Chicago
Cynthia Weiss & Miriam Socoloff,
(2022 installation by Brian McGlade)
Glass mosaics, 13 ft x 10ft.
Fabric of Our Lives, celebrating Jewish immigrant and labor history, was originally completed and dedicated in 1980, with support from the Jewish Labor Committee, and a large group of community volunteers.
Before/After Restoration
Miriam Socoloff
Cynthia Weiss
Indian Land Dancing
Foster Ave. Avenue underpass at DuSable Lake Shore Drive
Led by Tracy Van Duinen & Todd Osborne, Cynthia Weiss, and Native American artists and advisory group.
Chicago Public Art Group 2010.
Bricolage mosaics 200 x 8 ft.
Growing
Bryn Mawr Avenue underpass at DuSable Lake Shore Drive
Led by Tracy Van Duinen & Todd Osborne & Cynthia Weiss, and youth and community volunteers.
Chicago Public Art Group 2009
Bricolage mosaics 200 x 8 ft.
Tree of Life
Stroger Hospital, 2008
with Mirtes Zwierzynski
Ceramic mosaic commission, 12 x 4 ft.
Untitled
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School 2002
Juan Angel Chavez and Cynthia Weiss
10 ft x 10 ft. Smalti mosaics fabricated by Miotto Mosaics, NYC
Swing Suite
Theatre Building Commission, Oakton Community College 2002
Cynthia Weiss, Miriam Socoloff & Ginny Sykes
10 x 4 ft. glass mosaics
