2010 Updates

This fall Susan will be teaching Art History at Hope College.

There's an article up on Susan's profile regarding the installation of a permanent mosaic installation for Jean Klock Park, a project that Susan helped conceive.

Susan is serving the DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY as their PUBLIC ART CONSULTANT – DETROIT INTERNATIONAL RIVERFRONT

Susan advises DRC and the Public Art Planning Committee in setting forth the general principals to use as a guide for the Detroit International Riverfront Public Art Program. This includes: establishing the goals, guidelines, and jurying process for selecting works of art for public spaces. Consultation regarding the acquisition, placement and display of public art.

Susan created a Cultural Master Plan for Harbor Shores, a community redevelopment project in Benton Harbor, MI. She continues to serves as the Cultural Programming Consultant.

Click the banner to visit Harbor Shores.

Susan is respresenting Tuck Langland, a sculptor from Granger, Indiana. His bronze figureworks have been installed in a number of locations, including hospitals, churches, private collections, museums, sculpture gardens and other places.

Susan is representing Jolanta Pawlak, a sculptor, jeweler, and photographer from Poland. She currently works and lives on the Caribbean island Curacao in the Dutch Antilles. She has an interest in portroying the diversity and beauty she finds in the different cultures and nature she sees in her travels to other countries. You may visit her website here: http://www.jolantapawlak.com/

Susan continues to represent the Chicago based group of sculptors, 3-Dą˛, and their traveling exhibition "SKINS".

Susan has agreed to represent Cyril Lixenberg and Foster Willey Jr. If you are interested in more information on special commissions concerning these artists, please contact Susan.

See below for examples of their work.

Cyril Lixenberg
A printmaking artist and sculptor from Amsterdam. His works can be found in public and private collections in the Netherlands as well as the United States. He is a prolific contributor to the contemporary arts. A number of his works can be found in West Michigan, in Grand Rapids, Holland and Muskegon. Noteworthy is his sculpture Steel Water in Grand Rapids, commemorating the city as being the first city in the world to flouridate its drinking water.

Foster Willey Jr
A sculptor based in Minnesota, his work is both abstract and representational. Working with various media, he has created a large number of public works, featuring classical figure work to architectural ornamentation to modernist abstraction. Having studied at a number of institutions across the midwest, he also teaches at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts in Wayzata, Minnesota.