Susan Carol Maciorowski (née Nichols; June 10, 1965 – September 1, 2020) was an American artist best known for her work with

Walt Disney Animation Studios Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS), sometimes shortened to Disney Animation, is an American animation studio that creates animated features and short films for The Walt Disney Company. The studio's current production logo features a scene fro ...

predominantly during the

Disney Renaissance The Disney Renaissance was the period from 1989 to 1999 during which Walt Disney Feature Animation returned to producing critically and commercially successful animated films that were mostly musical adaptations of well-known stories, much ...

and Post-Renaissance.

Early life and education

She was born to parents Brian and Julie. She graduated from

East Longmeadow High School East Longmeadow High School is a public high school located in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, United States. It is the only secondary school (high school) in the East Longmeadow School District. It enrolls 833 students. It is known for being on ...

in 1983 before going on to study visual animation at the

California Institute of the Arts The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art university in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of both ...

where she later lectured, graduating in 1987.

Personal life

She married Chester “JR” Maciorowski and had two children, Stephanie and Jonathan.

Death

In 2015, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She received treatment at D’Amour Center.

Disney The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October ...

released a statement announcing her death in September 2020 with a long thread celebrating her work. Eric Goldberg said “She will be sadly missed by those of us who had the good fortune to work with her, but her influence on those films will be there forever.”

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nichols, Sue C. 1965 births 2020 deaths 20th-century American artists 21st-century American artists 20th-century American women artists 21st-century American women artists American production designers Artists from Massachusetts California Institute of the Arts alumni California Institute of the Arts faculty People from East Longmeadow, Massachusetts Walt Disney Animation Studios people Women production designers Deaths from breast cancer Deaths from cancer in Massachusetts