Connie is a watercolor artist with a penchant for storytelling. She is also a photographer, and in both these media she exhibits a keen visual sense and an abiding interest in people.

She studies watercolor with the renowned local artist Ken Landon Buck and is a member of the Art Circle Studio in Room 124 of the Essex Studios building in Walnut Hills.

Connie is the author of two books featuring her photos and writing ~ POSITIVELY NINETY: Interviews with Lively Nonagenarians and
OUR FAMILIES: A Celebration of Adoption.

After graduating from Oberlin College in sociology, she later pursued photography studies at the Art Institute of Boston and a master’s degree in library science from Simmons College.

Her work, often dubbed Painted Stories, has been exhibited in solo shows at St. John’s Unitarian Church in Cincinnati and All People’s Unitarian Church in Louisville. Other venues for her watercolors have included Kurtinitis Gallery and Café de Sales as well as participating in group exhibits at Art Local, Essex Art Walks, Venue 222, Cincinnati City Hall, Gallery Salveo, the Christ Church Gallery, Kennedy Heights Arts Center, Mohawk Gallery, the Curt Bessette Gallery, and Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.