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Background
Susan Crouse is a Colorado native who trained as a commercial artist at the Colorado Institute of Art. She has exhibited her art throughout Colorado and in many national juried venues. Private Collectors and Public Facilities own her work. She works in Encaustic (hot pigmented wax) often integrating found objects from nature. Artist Remarks The joy of being an artist is found when an observer's personal experience is discovered in the art. The observer's own connection to the work brings the art full circle, regardless of the motivation in its creation.The inventive aspect of art is what compels me to create. |
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Selected Juried Shows
2007 Solo Exhibition; Anderson Art Center, Kenosha, WI 2007 Quilts for Art's Sake 5 Invitational; Makeready Press and Gallery, Montclair, NJ 2007 Expressions the Art Quilt; Manchester, NH and Nashville, TN 2006 Elements: Children's Hospital, Invitational; Children's Hospital, Denver, CO 2006 Expressions the Art Quilt; Tims Art Quilt Studio, La Veta CO 2006 Fabric, Furniture, and Furnishings; Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts, Steamboat, CO 2006 Material Matters: FRCQ; Kimball Art Museum, Park City, UT 2006 On the Wall: SAQA professional member show; Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of CO, CO Springs, CO 2006 Art and Soul of Quilting (AWARD: Solo Exhibition); Anderson Center for the Arts, Kenosha, WI 2006 Art Quilts X: Xhilarating, Joy in the Making; Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ 2005 Sacred Threads; Reynoldsburg, OH 2005 HeART Goes Red for Women (AWARD: Third Place); Gallery Z, Providence, RI 2005 Form not Funtion; Carnegie Center for Art and History, New Albany, IN 2004 Habitat for all Species (AWARD: Theme Interpretation); Aullwood Center and Farm, Dayton, OH 2004 STAC Fiber Arts Exhibition; Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY 2004 13th National Art Exhibition and Sale; Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO 2004 Art Strings; Marianna Gallery, Greeley, CO 2003 Elements (traveling); Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO, Touring 2003 Art Quilts VIII; Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ 2003 Wrapped in Cloth; Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ 2003 Art Strings; Old Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, CO 2002 Pot Luck (traveling); Invitational Exhibition, Touring Exhibit 2002 Member Solo Exhibition; Old Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, CO 2002 Art Quilts at the Sedgwick; Sedgwick Cultural Center, Philadelphia, PA 2001 A Colorado Perspective, 2D Juried Exhibition; Old Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, CO 2001 Front Range Contemporary Quilters; Denver International Airport, Denver, CO 2001 Flora; Aullwood Audobon Center, Dayton, OH 2001 Art Strings Contemporary Quilts; Old Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, CO 2000 Out of Time; San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles 2000 Lines into Shape; Estes Park, CO 2000 Gilpin County Arts Festival; Invitation to Exhibit, Denver, CO 1999 Front Range Contemporary Quilters; Denver International Airport, Denver, CO |
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Publications and Awards
Reviews: Denver Post, Denver CO; Joanne Ditmer Independent Coast Observer, San Jose, CA; Irene Lorenz-Fife Sedgewick Review, Philadelphia Enquirer, Photo: Precarious Balance Various SAQA Journals 2005 2006 Publications: SAQA Journals Winter 2006, Fall 2006, Summer 2007 FiberArts Sept 2006 Berthoud Summer Guide 2005, Cover and Featured Artist Awards: 2006 Solo Show Award; Artist as Quiltmaker 2005 The Fire Within, 3rd Prize, The HeART Goes Red for Women 2005 Under the Pier, Best Theme Interpretation, Habitat for all Species Professional Organizations/Positions: Regional Representative, Studio Art Quilters Assoc., 2005-2007 President, Front Range Contemporary Quilters, 2002-2004, member |