Susan Davies

Susan Davies is a painter working mainly in oil and acrylics. She received a BA in Art and Education from Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN (1982) and a MA in Curriculum Design from St. Mary’s University of MN (1995). She also studied at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy (1981); at the Women’s Art Institute, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2004). She is interested in our connection to our natural surroundings with a special focus on water and water preservation. In 2011 and 2022, Susan was awarded Individual Artist Excellence Grants from the Central MN Arts Board and in 2015 a career development grant from the same organization and in 2020 she was awarded a “Project for Hope” grant from Forecast Public Art.