Most people say that the best thing about Susan's work is its wild sense of humour. In worlds populated by sheep, dragons and extraterrestrials who look suspiciously like us, she uses the garbage of our civilization combined with clay and paint to create satirical sculptures. She is also known for her intricate pen and ink drawings of amazing detail and imagination and chess sets of competing ideologies.

Susan designed and built the Moose and Goose community sculptures for the National Capital Commission and the Aerobanane for the Children's Museum (1997). Since 1989 she has conducted many workshops in area school and museums under MASC and the Ontario Arts Council and this summer had the honour of teaching teachers at the National Gallery (Integrated Arts Program, University of Ottawa).

Her philosophy in the classroom is to have the goal of a finished product with the major emphasis on creativity. Structured skill building is the necessary path to get there and this is achieved in a challenging but fun environment where we are all learning together. Susan uses recycled materials as a natural thing to do-neat stuff to work with that's free. Her job is kind of like an eccentric symphony conductor, she directs everyone to make sure that they are all working on the same song and finish together except everyone has written their own material!

Workshops:

- Susan works with students in half-day blocks .

- She tailors the project to whatever themes the teacher/class may be interested in.

Recent years workshops have been;

- A 6' by 6' papier mâché dragon built permanently on a Library card catalogue, done by elementary students. every child (427) made a "portrait" scale.

- The "Group of 257", elementary students made a huge landscape composed of birds, animals, trees ... all made from used paper.

- An elementary school made an 18' long fabric "dancing dragon" which they use as a kind of festive performance mascot.

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