Resumé
2018
Small Things group exhibit at Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette, CA, November-December
Enchanted Conversations and Broken Dreams, one person exhibit at Art Ventures Gallery, Menlo Park, August 15 – October 4
Kalligraphia, group exhibit at San Francisco Public Library, main branch, June-September, 2018
Letter Arts Review 32:2, 8 page feature article in Fall/Summer issue
Gallery One spring exhibit, Petaluma, CA
Expressions, Tracy Community Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition)
Expressions Selections, Grand Theatre Center for the Arts, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition)Matthews Gallery at The Grand Theatre Center for the Arts, Tracy, CA (curated exhibit)
2017
The Central Valley Art Association Annual (juried exhibition) at the Mistlin Gallery, Modesto, CA. Honored with Best of Show for 2017 for "On the Ferris Wheel."
The Marker Hotel, San Francisco, (juried exhibition)
Toad Fish Gallery, Sausalito, CA, exhibiting artist through June, 2017
ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA (juried exhibition), Boundaries & Balance: 12'' x 12'' Regional Juried Exhibition
Expressions, Tracy Community Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition)
Expressions Selections, Grand Theatre Art Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition)Matthews Gallery at The Grand Theatre Arts Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition)
2016
Commissioned to create second mural for the City of Tracy. Finished mural was 10' x 20' and included community participation
Received Curatorial Award by City of Tracy for curating Transforming the Written Word, a group exhibit featuring the work of five celebrated Bay Area artists as will as myself.
Matthews Gallery at The Grand Theatre Arts Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition)
Expressions, Tracy Community Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition) (First and Third Place in mixed media)
Expressions Selections, Grand Theatre Art Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition)
Published in Friends of Calligraphy Newsletter article on Berkeley workshop by Pamela Paulsrud.
2015
The Real Real Art Website, curated online art venue and sales site.
Matthews Gallery at The Grand Theatre Arts Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition)(First and Second Place in mixed media)
Expressions, Tracy Community Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition)
Expressions Selections, Grand Theatre Art Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition
2014
Invited to create the first mural in downtown Tracy, commissioned by the City of Tracy.
Curated and participated in a group show including five well-known artists from the Bay Area, including myself. The exhibit titled: Transforming the Written Word included a catalogue, an artists' talk, as well as the month long exhibit which opened the 2014 season for the gallery.
2013
Beauty Isn't Pretty an exhibit juried by Kris Kuksi.
Matthews Gallery at The Grand Theatre Arts Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition)
Expressions, Tracy Community Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition) (First and third place)
2012
Once Upon a Time, solo exhibit at UC Berkeley Extension SOMA Art and Design Center, San Francisco, CAShine, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Matthews Gallery at The Grand Theatre Arts Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition)
Expressions, Tracy Community Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition)
Expressions Selections, Grand Theatre Art Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition)
2011
First place Mixed Media, Expressions, Tracy Community Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition)
Matthews Gallery at The Grand Theatre Arts Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition)
Expressions Selections, Grand Theatre Art Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition)
Art work in annual juried issue of Letter Arts Review, Christopher Calderhead (ed.), vol. 25 no. 2, pp. 47-8.
2010
Matthews Gallery, The Grand Theatre Arts Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition)
First place Mixed Media, Expressions, Tracy Community Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition)
Expressions Selections, The Grand Theatre Arts Center, Tracy, CA (juried exhibition)
2009
Letters California Style, Kellogg Center at Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA
Second place Letters California Style, Society for Calligraphy Exhibit at Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA
Art work featured in “Just Doing It,” The Calligraph Journal, Deann Singh (ed.), vol. 31, issue
2008
San Diego Public Library, main branch, three person show, San Diego, CA
Art work in annual juried issue of Letter Arts Review, Christopher Calderhead (ed.), vol. 22 no. 3, p. 18.
2007
Talking Walls, La Jolla Public Library, La Jolla, CA (solo exhibition)
Word Play, Brandon Gallery, Fallbrook, CA
2006
Play on Words, Poway Center for the Performing Arts, Poway, CA
Honorable Mention, Graceful Envelope contest, National Association of Letter Carriers and Washington Calligraphers Guild.
Art work featured in Mehigan and Noble, The Encyclopedia of Calligraphy Techniques (2005)
Bobbi Richards, “Abstracting the Alphabet: The Art of Susan Richardson,” Expressions Magazine, vol. 1, issue 5, Sept/Oct 2002, pp.86-91
EDUCATION
Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Visual Arts, UC Berkeley extension, Berkeley, CA,
Ph.D. Education in Language and Literacy, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Outstanding Dissertation Award
M.A. English Education, Boise State University, Boise, ID, Graduate Fellowship
B.A. Secondary English Education, Simmons College, Boston, MA