My most recent quarterly artist newsletters can be found on my blog: https://suzeart.wordpress.com/ by searching "Suze's Art" or "Suze's Art News." In them I report on the previous quarter's activity, including exhibits and awards as well as upcoming events.

I am looking forward to seeing you all sometime in the future!

Some recent news

• October: I gave an extended demo, “Suze Paints!” for South Hill Artists (Puyallup WA)
• September: I attended Decades in the Making, an exhibit of the first 10 years of SOLA Awardees at Tacoma Art Museum and the celebration of the current year’s awardees, which to my great astonishment and pleasure included me. Work on honorees’ videos has begun, which has me looking as far back as my 9-year-old zoo sketches!
• September: Concluding the year-long 2025-26 Playa Summer Lake’s “Wildfire + Water program”in SE Oregon was a series of local student tours and then a public opening. I was excited to finally show my installation Place Setting: we are all guests of Mother Nature; I received many thoughtful reactions. I could not have accomplished it all without the help of ceramicist Joann Wadge, heron bones from Kathy Ross and Playa staff and volunteers. There will be a smaller version in Seattle  (with place cards for Northwest species!) at Studio 103 in February 2027
• September: an offshoot of Northwest Watercolor Society’s plein air group had a special opportunity to tour and create paintings of the NuCor steel plant in West Seattle. The paintings hung for several weeks at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, and at the opening celebration there was an additional “clothesline” of unframed works. I was thrilled to be part of it, and so many thanks are due to Maggie Johnson for initiating and organizing!
• August: Best in Show, Anacortes Arts Festival for Bolt Creek Stump (Anacortes WA)
• August: Northwest Designer CraftArtists’ Handwork 2026 at the Postmark Center in Auburn, WA had a variant of my Core Values textile installation. Originally created for Olympic National Park’s Terminus Project, Janet Stone wove ice cores, Arissa Brown dyed and quilted sediment cores and I knit, felted and dyed tree cores. While short one ice core and four sediment cores due to limited space, I like how it reminds me of a scientific graph.
• July: I had a profound spell at Lucid Arts Foundation’s residency adjacent to Point Reyes National Seashore in California. Besides finishing two new burned tree portraits, I had several new ideas for pieces and I learned about the unique Bishop pine species growing there. I’m also looking forward to exhibiting in Gallery Route One’s visiting artist program in 2028 (Inverness CA)

Coming up:

• I’m moved that Washington Trails Association covered some of my work in their print magazine. A more complete version is now online: Making Art for a Rapidly Changing World. (What a change from their typewritten-mimeographed-USPS-mailed version I remember as a young hiker!)
• Until December 26: four of my wildfire-related pieces are at the new Mason-Mills Gallery
• Until October 31: I’m happy to be again part of “Women’s Work: Women Artists Making Their Mark,” online at O’Hanlon Center in Mill Valley CA.
• Until October 31: Book as Art v. 14: Ghosted is showing my bark beetle book, Multifactorial. I was also a juror for this exhibit at the Decatur Library, GA.
• Until December 3: Like Mother’s17th iteration, curated by the indefatigable Kelly Lyles, now at Cascadia College’s Mobius Hall gallery, Bothell, WA
• Until December 12: My bark beetle bookContested Grovescontinues in Puget Sound Book Artists’ annual members exhibit at the Evans Library at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. I’ll be part of the Open Case event November 6 12-2 pm.

Until January 25, 2027: Precarity, shown in the Lucid Arts photo above, will be at the Phinney Neighborhood Association’s annual winter festival juried show December 5-6, but will also will be on view there from November 19, 2026 to January 25, 2027.

and in the more distant future:

• City Hall exhibit, Snoqualmie WA January-March 2027
• Featured artist at Studio 103, Seattle WA February 2027
• National Museum of Women in the Arts “Women to Watch” Washington DC April-August 2027
• Seattle Nantes Sister City Association artist exchange, Nantes France fall 2027