Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Susan Berger

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
Region: Kingston, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1966, 1967
More: www.susanlberger.com
Susan Berger is an American painter and mixed-media artist. She grew up in New Haven and went to art school there. By the 1960s, she was primarily a painter and then branched into doing environmental sculpture by reconstructing an excavation site. In graduate school, she learned rug hooking and started making elaborate rug-hooking and latch-hooking fiber art. Berger’s art has been exhibited across the country. Many of her pieces are decorative and influenced by Native American women and artists. In an interview, Berger stated “I feel that my art pieces reflect an important part of feminism and by using basic/traditional hooking, and using scraps of materials and yarns is what they did and integrate these items into one-of-a-kind works. I want to carry on this tradition, have it remain an important craft, and be appreciated as such.” She currently resides in Kingston, New York.

Studios

New Hampshire

Susan Berger worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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