Cynthia received a B.A. and an M.F.A. from Yale University. She became a partner in Jack* Design, working with, among others, Universe Publishing, Yale School of Medicine, Yale School of Architecture, Brown University, Showtime, and Sundance Films. Now based in Charlotte, NC, she continues to work with both local and national clients (partial list below).
Not content to simply practice design, she has explored additional directions over the years. With her letter-writing sister, Jessica Flaxman, she co-founded and art directed Papique! Paper With A Punch, an original stationery line sold in the Neiman Marcus catalogue and in stores across the country. Cynthia and architect Carrie Gault work together as PAC3, a public art partnership based on a mutual interest in dynamic form/space relationships. Their commission, Peacehaven Community Farm Sensory Space, had the honor of being selected by the Society of American Mosaic Artists juried show for their Mosaic Arts International 2017 Site-specific Mosaic Exhibition.
Cynthia has taught and served as a visiting critic at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, The Yale School of Art, and Central Piedmont Community College (WTVIPBS Carolina Impact story). She is currently Senior Lecturer at University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Cynthia has served on the Board of Founders’ Circle Affiliate of the Mint Museum Craft + Design, as Design for Good Manager on the Board of AIGA Charlotte, and as a chief designer for The Wall Poems of Charlotte, an ongoing public mural project that celebrates North Carolina’s literary heritage. Cynthia was a member of the The Women’s Impact Fund for many years, serving on the Arts, Education and Human Services Grants Committees.
Her painting and mixed media fine art can be found at artwork.cynthiafrankdesign.com.
In her spare time she writes and records original songs.
Instagram | ccfrank.art
Get in touch! | cfrank18@charlotte.edu
Public Art
- 2020–2021 | Lisa Bielawa, Broadcast From Home – Kinetic Type Animations NY, NY
- 2016–2017 | Peacehaven Community Farm Sensory Space, LeBauer Park, Greensboro, NC | Carrie Gault, PAC3 | Award: SAMA Juried Exhibition, Mosaic Arts International 2017: Site-Specific Mosaic, 2017
- 2012–2016 | Wall Poems of Charlotte, Charlotte, NC | Night Driving, by William Matthews: 528 North Brevard St. ; Love Comes Quietly, by Robert Creeley: 1500 Central Ave. ; First Novel, by Donald Justice: Treolar House, 7th St. ; Bus Stop, by Fred Chappell: 325 East 9th St. ; These Days, by Charles Olson: 301 E. 7th St. ; Where We Are, by Robert Martin Davis: 321 N. Caldwell St.
Arts + Culture
- Founders’ Circle Affiliate of the Mint Museum of Craft + Design
- Salty Film Productions
- McIntosh & Otis Literary Agency
- Happy Box Architecture
- Brightstar Music Festival
- Oyster Bay Music Festival
- St. John’s Concerts by the Pond
- Signature Literary Agency
- Charlotte Oratorio Singers
Legal
- Warren & Kallianos
- Ferguson Chambers & Sumter
- Tin Fulton Walker & Owen
- Rudolf & Widenhouse
- Garfinkel Immigration Law Firm
- Federal Defenders of Western North Carolina
- Charlotte Community Justice Coalition
Retail + Business
- Henry’s Sweet Retreat
- Passion 8 Restaurant
- Peachtree & Ward Catering
- Pomme Events
- Parque at Hunting Hill Mansion
- Paper Twist
- Monarch Ventures
- Bugalow Picnic Company
- Papique! Paper with a Punch
- Olé Spain
Education + Nonprofit
- 120 Education Consultancy
- Foundation for the Carolinas
- Doctors Without Borders
- Science Seeds
- Open University of Wellfleet
- Brooklyn Children’s Garden
- Write Consulting
- UNC College of Architecture + Design
- Charlotte Country Day School
- St. Jerome
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation