BIO

Susan Krause was born in Toronto, Canada and received her education at the Ontario College of Art and Design, graduating with the Emanuel Hahn Sculpture Award and the Art History Award. She continued her education in Canada, receiving a Bachelors Degree from the University of Guelph and lived and worked in NYC in the mid eights attending the School of Art at Columbia University.  She won a scholarship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received her MFA from Yale University on a full scholarship where she graduated with the Blaire Dickenson Award in 1989. Susan has shown in Canada, Europe, South America and the USA and lives part-time in a small historic community in Alamos, Mexico where she is involved in community art education and has served on the board of a bi-cultural ecological community there.  Susan also works collaboratively with artist and husband Steve Jarvis, and travels throughout Central and South America regularly conducting workshops for students and educators on creativity, project planning and curriculum development. She held the position of Chair of Sculpture for the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta until 2018 and continues to be passionate about Art Education in relation to Sculpture in the 21st century.