Susan Maakestad was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship from Arts Midwest in 1988. She is a recipient of the 2013 ArtsAccelerator Grant from ArtsMemphis, direct purchase awards from the UrbanArts Commission in Memphis and individual artist grants from the Peoria Area Arts and Sciences Commission. Recently she was one of five artists commissioned by ArtsMemphis to create an edition for their inaugural CSA program. She has been a fellow at MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Hambidge Center. Her work has been included in the print publication New American Paintings. Her work has been exhibited nationally including at Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis; Sazama Gallery, Chicago; The Rymer Gallery, Nashville; Steinway Gallery, Chapel Hill; and The Rockford (IL) Art Museum. Public collections include the Tennessee State Museum, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and the City of Memphis. Susan Maakestad is professor of art at Memphis College of Art where she has taught since 1997. She earned her M.F.A. in painting from The University of Iowa in 1987 and a B.A magna cum laude and M.A. from Central Washington University in Ellensburg, WA.
Susan Maakestad
Studios
Mixter
Susan Maakestad worked in the Mixter studio.
Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…