Retiring from nursing led to another step into the art world as Cindy applied and was accepted into The Artists’ Cooperative Gallery in Omaha where she is an active member. She participates in local exhibits with Omaha Artists Inc. has showings in area businesses and operates a studio in the Omaha-Council Bluffs (IA) metro area Hot Shops Art Center. In addition, she was selected to participate in the National Herbert Hoover Museum exhibit and has judged the high school art competition for the U.S. Congress.

Cindy Rae opened her eyes to the world on a winter solstice morning in the Loess Hills of southwest Iowa. She was the second daughter and third child of Mary and Erv, who soon added five more children to their catholic clan. Cindy spent the first three years of her life on the farm of her birth but since has been a “city kid’.