Cynthia Perry Colebrook '68
Carbondale, Colorado, United States
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Cynthia Perry Colebrook was Vice President for Institutional Advancement at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI).
Since 1871, SFAI has been a vital convening place for arts communities and an international leader in fine arts education. A nonprofit, pri¬vate institution, SFAI offers Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Arts, Master of Fine Arts, and Master of Arts degrees and a wide range of public programs. SFAI artists’ accomplishments can be found in museums and galleries around the world, in bookstores and movie theaters, online, and in the civic sphere. SFAI counts among its faculty and alumni such luminaries as Ansel Adams, Kathryn Bigelow, Angela Davis, Richard Diebenkorn, Karen Finley, Jerry Garcia, Don Ed Hardy, George Kuchar, Annie Leibovitz, Sharon Lockhart, Barry McGee, Mark Rothko, and Kehinde Wiley.
Cynthia has served not-for-profit organizations as a consultant and Certified Fund Raising Executive for more than 20 years and has presented training workshops for the Corporation for National and Community Service and the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Her volunteer work includes serving on the advisory board for a humanitarian organization, SOTENI International, which focuses on AIDS prevention in Africa.
Cynthia is also a writer and has published prose and poetry. She has had two solo appearances and one group appearance on PBS station WVXU in Cincinnati, OH. The station’s program, “Women Writing for (a) Change, On the Radio,” featured her selected poems and short stories.
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After briefly attending college, Cynthia noted, her life took a non-traditional route; she attended the Talland School of Equitation in Gloucestershire, England, and subsequently taught riding and trained horses professionally for 20 years. After her marriage, she and her artist husband, Theodore, lived for 10 years in rural West Virginia without electricity, running water, or telephone, while they gardened organically and farmed with teams of horses. They recently spent seven years living aboard a 45-foot sailboat on the East Coast of the United States, prior to moving to San Francisco in 2011 and Colorado in 2017.
