Patricia Cummins is an oil / pastel painter and a veteran art educator. She has exhibited her work primarily in the southeastern United States while traveling abroad to participate in workshops, exhibitions, and other residences.

In her own words she described her objectives for the 2007 Artist-in-Residence program. “This residence will interpret to the public Petrified Forest National Park’s importance to the world, and creatively convey and achieve the mission of the park”.