Cindee Travis Klement Symbiosis

Cindee Travis Klement (B.1957 Dell City/El Paso, Texas) is a Houston-based visual artist who works in sculpture, mixed media, printmaking, and social sculpture. Her recent work addresses conservation issues, looking specifically at living soil’s ability to sequester carbon, soak up rainwater, and support wildlife. Past works address wind erosion, native bees, and recovery from Hurricane Harvey. Her work records our natural history to the collective memory so that it will no longer be endangered knowledge. She recently installed Endangered Knowledge: The Soul of Humus for Sculpture Month Houston 2021, a large-scale and site-specific sculpture that researches and represents the deep environmental interrelationships between bison, grass and carbon. Symbiosis, a living piece of site-specific art activism in process, reimagines the Lawndale Art Center Sculpture garden’s traditional urban landscape and answers the question: How do we holistically restore an ecological balance in Houston? Her monumental collection of fifty 30″ X 44″ watercolor monotypes, Rumblings, draws attention to the unseen and endangered 20,000 species of wild bees. Klement completed the BLOCK Program at The Glassell School of The Museum of Fine Arts Houston in 2018. She was named a finalist for the Artadia Award in 2020 and 2021. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner proclaimed “August 24th, 2021, Cindee Klement Day” for her work to revitalize the community through art and conservation.