Susan has been making prints, painting, exhibiting and teaching for more than 40 years. She obtained her B.A. degree from Brandeis University, and holds MA and MFA degrees from the University of Iowa where she studied with Mauricio Lasansky.

In 1980 she joined the staff at the Fillmore Arts Center (a nationally recognized magnet art school) in Washington D.C., where she taught Fine Arts and Art History. In 1984 she accompanied her husband (a career diplomat) to Cape Town, South Africa. In Cape Town she was a visiting lecturer in Design and Art Education at the University of Cape Town. Since her return, she directed the art magnet program at Hunter’s Woods, a Fairfax County art magnet school. She has taught at the Corcoran School of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Kennedy Center, and she has been a visiting lecturer at American University. Sue is the founder of Artwork Studio B, a private art school in McLean VA.

Susan has exhibited in Washington DC at the Charles Sumner Museum, the Studio Gallery, The Mansion at Strathmore, the W.P.A., and the Cage Gallery. She has shown nationally in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Iowa and internationally in Cape Town, South Africa. Her artwork has also been featured in many invitational and group show.