"One eye sees, the other feels." Paul Klee
Suzanne is an award recipient of the Fellowship in the Visual Arts (FIVA) from the National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts (NFAA), Peninsula Arts Association (PAA) & Wisconsin Arts Board (WAB) and the first individual artist to receive the Fred Alley Visionary Award from the Peninsula Arts Association. Most recently, Suzanne was the Artist–in–Residence at the Paine Art Center and Gardens in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where she was invited to turn her lens on Oshkosh. Making two thematic bodies of work as well as writing an extensive on-line journal of her experience available at thepaine.org.
As both a traditional (film-based) and digital photographer, Suzanne's approach to photography is simply as "a mindful minimalist"- in style and philosophy. She uses Hasselblad cameras, DSLRs and iPhone camera apps to express herself in a multitude of traditions and mediums.
As the head of the Photography Department at the Peninsula School of Art she is dedicated in supporting photography locally and maintaining the only traditional darkroom open to the public in the county. Suzanne connects with other passionate photographers by offering photography workshops at Peninsula School of Art - Fish Creek, The Clearing Folk School - Ellison Bay and Björklunden - Baileys Harbor. She conducts two, three and four day workshops as well as week-long photographic retreats all designed to fully immerse students into a sublime experience of making fine art images. Suzanne is also actively involved in supporting the arts in the public high schools in Door county by offering her expertise in the traditional darkroom, as a visiting artist and as a mentor through the Exposure to Creativity (ETC) program hosted by The Hardy Gallery, Ephraim, Wisconsin.
Suzanne was educated at the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After residing in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood for almost a decade she has gladly returned to her home state where she is a full–time resident of southern Door county. Since 1994 she has happily lived in a one–hundred year old brick farmhouse off the beaten track with her artist husband, Jim Rose, and daughter.
Her work can be found in many private and public collections including Door County Maritime Museum, Door County Historical Society, Paine Art Center & Gardens, Oshkosh, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, and The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Private collections include Ellsworth and Carla Peterson, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, and Lieutenant Governor Barbara Lawton, Algoma, Wisconsin.
A solo exhibition is scheduled at the Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, June through July of 2012, will debut Suzanne’s first body of work solely made in digital. The exhibition is scheduled to travel throughout the greater Midwest through 2015.