Catherine Cross Tsintzos is a visual artist known for using her knowledge and experiences to create within the realms of both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary components for outcomes that focus on environmental and social issues, traditional fine craft and sustainability. She has a clear purpose in building and crossing bridges among the arts with a deep focus and balance between artistic practice, teaching, activism and invitation for participation.

Catherine has spent her life's work developing arts curriculum and arts education opportunities for all ages, abilities and socio-economic backgrounds in all mediums of the visual arts in the Southeast United States. She is honored to have solid experiences rooted in museum education, rural advancement, non-profit arts organizations and community outreach and organization.

Experiences with mediums that provide engagement with nature, processes and elements of surprise like book arts, ceramics, papermaking, printmaking and surface design techniques for fiber arts and textiles are experiences Catherine connects with during her personal art making most.

Over the past ten years Catherine’s work has had a focus on developing art and agriculture intersections for curriculum development in schools and works of art that reflect these intersections. School Visiting Artist residencies have taken place in schools throughout the Southeast United States.

Catherine's handmade artist books have been exhibited by invitation at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, the juried 2026 Artfields Art Festival in Lake City, SC , the Mark Twain Library, Redding, CT, The Hand Center at Stetson University, Deland, FL and more. She incorporates ceramics, printmaking and her handmade papers into the books she creates.

A two time CERF+ grant recipient in 2024, 2025. She has been awarded Artist Residencies from the Blumenthal Foundation twice to work on her art and agriculture project at Wildacres in Little Switzerland, NC, three times from the Rensing Center, Pickens, SC and May 2021 at the Edgewood Farm, Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, MA. In 2026, Catherine completed a two week Artist Residency with the GreenHill Center for North Carolina Art.

Catherine is a practicing and exhibiting artist from North Carolina.