Suzanne Klotz (born 1944) is a painter and sculptor active in Arizona.
Career
Klotz was born in 1944 in
Shawano, Wisconsin
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Geography
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Klotz attended
Washington University in St. Louis for two years of undergraduate education. She holds a BFA Degree from the
Kansas City Art Institute
The Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) is a private art school in Kansas City, Missouri. The college was founded in 1885 and is an accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and Higher Learning Commission. It has approx ...
, MFA Degree from
Texas Tech University
Texas Tech University (Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas. Established on , and called Texas Technological College until 1969, it is the main institution of the five-institution Texas Tech University Sy ...
, and Secondary Teaching Certification from the
University of Missouri Kansas City.
In 1990, Klotz was an artist-in-residence and arts consultant at the
Jerry Mason Memorial Aborigine Centre in Berri, South Australia.
Between 1990 and 1996 she arranged exhibitions and art collaborations between Israeli and Palestinian artists during guest artist residencies at
Mishkenot Sha'ananim
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, a non-governmental, non-political, International Cultural Centre in Jerusalem.
Klotz has established multi-cultural art programs, workshops, and exhibitions in several countries including Australia, Africa, Mexico, Taiwan, Israel, Palestine, and the United States.
Recognition
Klotz received the 2013-14 Bi-National
Fulbright Scholar
The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people o ...
Award (Aman, Jordan).
Other grants and awards include the
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 for the purpose of providing financial assistance to individual working artists of established ability. It was established at the bequest of Lee Krasner, who was an American abstract expressio ...
, the Puffin Foundation,
Change Inc, the New York Artists' Fellowship, Capelli d'Angeli Foundation, the
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal ...
, Arizona Artists' 3-D Fellowship, an Arizona Governor's Award for Women Who Create and Educate, a City Improvement Award for a commissioned public park sculpture, and Texas Tech University's Most Distinguished 2-D Graduate Alumni Award. In addition, the Palestine Children's Welfare Fund established a Palestinian Educators Scholarship Endowed Fund dedicated to Suzanne Klotz.
Klotz's academic appointments include universities and colleges in Arizona, California, Texas and Utah.
Her art has been exhibited in over 300 exhibitions internationally since 1972 and is in numerous private and public collections
including the
Smithsonian Museum of American Art
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds ...
,
the
El Paso Museum of Art
Founded in 1959, The El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) is located in downtown El Paso, Texas. First accredited in 1972, it is the only accredited art museum within a 250-mile radius and serves approximately 100,000 visitors per year. A new building ...
,
and the
Phoenix Art Museum
The Phoenix Art Museum is the largest museum for visual art in the southwest United States. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, the museum is . It displays international exhibitions alongside its comprehensive collection of more than 18,000 works of ...
.
References
External links
SuzanneKlotz.com Farhat Art Museum- Fine art- Neo-Orientalism collectionvideo on YouTube
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Modern artists
People from Shawano, Wisconsin
1944 births
Living people
Kansas City Art Institute alumni
Texas Tech University alumni
University of Missouri–Kansas City alumni
Washington University in St. Louis alumni
20th-century American painters
21st-century American painters
American women sculptors
20th-century American women artists
21st-century American women artists
American women painters
Fulbright alumni