North Vernon Art Show!
at A Perfect Day Cafe
09/05/08
A Perfect Day Café, at 221 E. Walnut Street, North Vernon, is featuring the work of artist Cindie Underwood-Vanderbur from September 5th thru September 27th. The show will kick off on the 5th with wine-tasting at the café from 5-7PM. Cindie specializes in portraits of people, pets, and wildlife. She works in various media including polymer clay, pencil, colored pencil and pastels.  
Cindie was the featured artist of a one-woman show at the Southern Indiana Center for the Arts in February and March of 2004 titled “From Hoops to Mutts”. She has won several awards including the Jennings County ‘Friends of the Animals’ Art Show Best in Show prize for a watercolor portrait of a man sleeping with his dog by the light of the television entitled “Prime Time”. In 2003, she won both the Indiana State University Purchase Award and a cash Award of Merit in the Wabash Valley Art Show for a polymer sculpture titled “Fruit Bats and Rain Drops.” Cindie has also appeared on Louisville’s ‘Fox in the Morning’ television program where she demonstrated techniques in polymer clay. She has taught art classes and completed many commissioned pieces, and prides herself in making original artwork affordable to most people.
When asked why she hasn’t made art her fulltime career, Cindie always sites a fondness for eating and living indoors. In her day job, she works developing training curriculums and traveling around the state teaching people ways to provide a more meaningful life to persons with disabilities. Besides her artwork, Cindie enjoys taking care of many animals. She and her husband, Curt Vanderbur, live near Dupont where they have a kennel and raise Salukis. In addition to the dogs, they have 8 cats, various exotic animals (including skunks!), a horse, a goat and a mule. Cindie and Curt also have fun riding their motorcycles, and while Cindie creates visual art, Curt enjoys “mucking about” in rock music (he is the bass player for Shock Treatment, a Madison-based Ramones cover band that donates all proceeds to Hospice.)  Cindie belongs to the Southern Indiana Center for the Arts, and she and Curt are both members of Madison’s Chapter of Toastmasters and the Kennel Club of Columbus, Indiana.