Suzanne Rose has been esteemed by the Washington
Post as...
"a straight shooter with a kind of spare visual poetry that
speaks
volumes in a mood of Zen Americana."
An award recipient of the Fellowship in the Visual Arts
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 PAA.
As the head of the Photography Department at the Peninsula
Art School, Fish Creek and instructor of photography workshops
for adults and children at PAS and The Clearing, she is a
dedicated individual in supporting photography locally.
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 Rose is a full time resident of southern
Door county. For the past fourteen years, she happily dwells
in a one hundred year old farmhouse off the beaten track with
her artist husband, Jim Rose and daughter.
Suzanne has been recently invited by the Paine Art Center,
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to be an Artist-in-Residence for 10 months.
She will turn her lens on Oshkosh and make a thematic body
of work that will be on exhibit at the Paine Art Center and
Mercy Medical Center June though October of 2009. The residency
and exhibit is in conjunction with the traveling Smithsonian
exhibition Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography
on loan from The George Eastman House, running concurrently.
Numerous speaking engagements have been arranged as a connection
to the immediate community. To bridge a connection to a broader
audience she will also maintain an on-line journal of her
experience at www.thepaine.org
starting in September 2008.
Her work can be found in many private and public collections
including Fairfield Art Center, Door County Maritime Museum,
Door County Historical Society, Charles Wustum Museum of Art,
Racine and The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
