Winter 2007

Lynne McCreight ’66

Zinnias

If Lynne McCreight ’66 sometimes sounds a bit like an engineer when she describes her artistic process, there’s a reason. Before she retired, she was manufacturing manager for a high-tech computer networking company. A chemistry major, McCreight is not one of those artists who knows where she’s going with her creation only after she’s arrived. “I love sorting and organizing, and having a very good idea where I’m going. I begin with a vision, and I love the proof of design stage, where you figure out how to use fabrics and put them together to make a design.”

A member of the College’s Board of Trustees, McCreight creates her art from her home in Moscow, Idaho, and is happiest when she’s working with tiny scraps of fabrics, which she loves retrieving from wastebaskets at the end of a workshop. The images she creates from her thousands of scraps are the things she loves—a bowl of oranges, Polish pottery, bees in their honeycomb, and zinnias in her garden.