Susan Togut.Artist's Bio

721 Gallery, Kingston, NY 2010

 WAAM, Woodstock, NY 2010

Unison Arts, New Paltz, NY 2010



SELECTED EXHIBITIONS


Roots of Ascension, Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, N.Y. 2010
For Ascending and Always Creating.
.., 721 Gallery, Kingston, N.Y. 2010
Transmigration Through Time - Solo Show; WAAM; Woodstock, N.Y. 2010
Go Green, Keep the Hudson Clean; Kingston Sculpture Biennial; N.Y. 2009
The River; WAAM; Woodstock, N.Y. 2009
Nina Silverman Physical Therapy; Kingston, NY 2007-2009
Global Warming; Group Exhibition; Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 2008
Fall For Art; Jewish Federation, Kingston, NY 2007
When Women Pursue Justice; 1199 Gallery & Brooklyn Public Library; NYC 2006
A River Flows to the Sea; Group Exhibition; Sculptural Installation 2005
Greene County Council on the Arts Gallery; Catskill, N.Y. 2005
Living With Uncertainty; Cycles of Renewal; Deep Listening Gallery; Kingston, NY 2004
Hudson River Exhibition; Group; Indoor Installations; GCCA Gallery; Catskill, N.Y. 2003
Explorations into Light and Healing; Women's Wellness Center, Kingston, NY 2002
Healing Ourselves, Each Other and Community; Deep Listening Gallery, Kingston, NY 2000
Healing Mandalas; Solo; Columbia Memorial Hospital; Hudson, N.Y. 1999
Healing Mandalas; Solo; Women's Wellness Center; Kingston, N.Y. 1999
Visions of Healing; Group; Kleinart James Gallery; Woodstock, N.Y. 1998
Drawing Nature; Group; GCCA Mountaintop Gallery; Windham, N.Y. 1996
Life force; A Gift From the Schoharie Stream; Group, Lexington, N.Y. 1996
Tree of Renewal; Indoor Installation; Meals on Wheels Benefit; 1994
The Rockwell Group; South Street Seaport; N.Y.C. 1994
Raising the Dead; Solo; indoor Installations; VCCA; Sweet Briar, Va. 1993
Earth Roots, Skybound; Outdoor Installations; Painted Bride Art Center   1992 and Kensington Gardens; Philadelphia, Pa.
Urban Roots, We Aspire; Indoor Installation. 148th Street Gallery; N.Y.C. 1992



SELECTED PUBLIC ART PROJECTS


Flowing Waters, Enduring Roots; Self; Lifeforce Environment 2009 Sculpture Biennial; Kingston Point Park; Kingston, N.Y.
Alive! A Path of Renewal; Collaborative; Sculpture Biennial; 2009 Outdoor Environment; Kingston Point Park; Kingston, N.Y.
Living With Uncertainty Sanctuary and Sculpture Garden; Collaborative 2009-ongoing With TBI people and others; NCSC; Lake Katrine, N.Y
Wellness Entrance Wallpiece; YMCA; Kingston, N.Y; Collaborative/NCSC 2009
Healing Circle Arbor; Created with those touched by cancer; Permanent 2009, 04, 01,97 Renewed every few years; Waterfront; Kingston, N.Y.
Quatracentennial Mural celebrating the Hudson River; Collaborative 2008 Dutchess County Fairgrounds; Rhinebeck, N.Y.;  NCSC Explorations;
  Indoor and Outdoor Fragility Installations; Self; Shokan, N.Y. 2006-ongoing
Lifeforce Mandala; Biennial Sculpture Exhibition; Self; Kingston, N.Y. 2005
When Women Pursue Justice; Collaborative Outdoor Mural; Bed-Sty, N.Y. 2005
Atrium Environment; With autistic children; Children's Annex; Saugerties, N.Y. 2003
Lifeforce Journey; Brydcliffe Sculpture Exhibition; Self; Woodstock, N.Y. 2002
Revitalization History Murals; Created by intergenerational community 1995-02 members and Self; Catskill, N.Y.
Mandala Reading Garden; Titusville School; Collaboration with students, 2001 3rd-8th grades; Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Lunar Mandala; part of Lunar Opera; sponsored by Pauline Oliveros 2000 Foundation; Collaboration with two groups; Lincoln Center, N.Y.C.
Lifeforce; A Gift From the Rondout Creek; Biennial Sculpture Exhibition 2001,99 Created by Self; Kingston, N.Y.
A River Runs Through Us; History Murals; Collaboration with intergenerational 1999 community members and students; Riccardi School; Glasco, N.Y.
Earthmound; Renaissance Fair; Outdoor Installation; Created with those 1998 touched by cancer; Woodstock, N. Y.
Cancer Treatment Room Murals; Hassenfeld Center; Honors child who died 1997-98 from cancer; Self; New York University Hospital; N.Y.C.
Life force; A Gift From the Schoharie Stream and Hudson River; 1996-98
Regenerative outdoor installations by Self and community members; Art Awareness; Lexington, N.Y. and Catskill, N.Y.
Generations Room; AnnMarie Sculpture Park; Finalist; Solomons Island, Md. 1997 City Water Tunnel #3; Exterior Mural for Here Theater;
  N.Y.C. 1996 Inner City Renewal Projects; Totem Gazebo, Murals, Garden Design, etc. 1991-96
Intergenerational Collaboration; Bedford Stuyvesant, N.Y. Cycles of History and Transformation; Exterior Revitalization Mural 1995
Intergenerational Collaboration; Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Rooftop Poetics; Rooftop Installation of 'Urban Totems'; Created with 1992-95
  homeless youth; McBurney YMCA; N.Y.C.
Urban Dreams, We Aspire, Indoor and Outdoor Murals; Created with 1992-95 multi-cultural teens and seniors; JASA Center; Williamsburg, N.Y.
Jazz Park; Inner City Revitalization Project; Created by design team with 1991-95 intergenerational community members;  Philadelphia, Pa.
Propagation; Artist in the Gardens; Outdoor Installation by Self with 1990-95 help from community members; Bedford Stuyvesant, N.Y


SELECTED AWARDS/ HONORS

VSA International Conference Lecture: The Great Integrity; Washington DC 2010
Dutchess/Ulster County Decentralization Grant 2005 Local Initiative Grant 2004 Puffin Foundation Grants 2003,00,97 NYS
Foundation for the Arts Artist-in-Residency Grants 1990-02
Greene County Council on the Arts Decentralization Grants 1995-01
Milton Avery Foundation 1997-98 Hudson River Improvement Grants 1997,95
Brooklyn Arts Council Decentralization Grants 1992-96
Art Awareness Grant 1996
Greenway Conservancy of the Hudson Valley 1995
Mill Street Loft Grant 1995
Trust for the Public Land Grants 1991 -94
Stop the Violence Grants 1991 -94
NYS Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant 1994
Hillwood Art Museum Project Residency Grant 1993
Arts Connection Artist-in-Residency Grants 1987-93
Mid-Atlantic Foundation Artist-in-Residency Grant 1992
Yaddo Residency 1992 Harburg Foundation Grants 1990-91
Pollack Krasner Grant 1990


SELECTED ADMINISTRATIVE/ EDUCATIONAL POSITIONS

Director of Fine Arts; Northeast Center for Special Care; Kingston,  N.Y. 2007-ongoing
Director of Fine and Performing Arts; Northeast Center for Special Care 2004-07 Serving traumatic brain injured people; Kingston, N.Y. Director
Healing Arbor; City of Kingston, N.Y. with Benedictine Hospital 1997-ongoing
Director and Grant Writer; Arts for Wellness Programs; Woodstock,  N.Y. 2004-06
Professor; Creative Arts Therapy; Dutchess Community College; N.Y.
Director and Grant Writer; Healing Circle Visual Arts Program; 1997-03
For those touched by cancer; Benedictine Hospital; Kingston, N.Y.
Director; Arts For Wellness Programs; For mentally ill patients on Psych Ward 1999-02 and other populations; Columbia Memorial Hospital; Hudson, N.Y.
Director and Grant Writer; Art Through the Generations Program 1998-00
Columbia Memorial Hospital Long-Term Care; Jefferson Heights, N.Y.
Director of Art Program and Muralist; Woodstock Day School; N.Y. 1996-97
Community Outreach Consultant and Grant Writer; Greene County Council 1996-97 on the Arts; Catskill, N.Y.
Director and Grant Writer; Halsey/Lewis Stuyvesant Public Art and Education, 1991-96 Program; Bedford Stuyvesant, N.Y.


SELECTED EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS

Installations, murals, stained glass, holographic stories, puppetry and other special projects by
K-12th graders, disabled students, parents, teachers, and community members.

 

Arts for the Developmentally Disabled; Ulster/Greene Counties ARC;
   N.Y. 2000
A River Runs Through Us; Community History Mural; Riccardi School;
  1998-99  Glasco, N.Y.; K-6th graders, parents, teachers, community
   members Recyclable Courtyard Environment, Brinkerhoff School;
   Fishkill, N.Y. 1998
25th Year History Mural; Woodstock Day School; N.Y; K-8th graders
  1997-98
Murals and Indoor/Outdoor Installations; Catskill Schools; N.Y. 1996-98
Garden/Church Revitalization Projects; Murals, gazebo, etc. 1991-96
Bedford Stuyvesant, N.Y; intergenerational community members History Mural; Catskill Middle School; 7th graders and seniors;. N.Y. 1995
Indoor/Outdoor Murals; JASA Senior Center! 1S49 Middle School 1992-95
   Williamsburg, N.Y.
Outdoor Environmental Installation; Red Hook High School; collaboration
   1994 with Bard College; red Hook, N.Y.
Varied Curriculum Based Projects; East Harlem Tutorial Program;
   N.Y.C. 1994


Varied Projects; Children's Museum of Manhattan; 2nd-8th graders;
  N.Y.C. 1991,94
Outdoor History Murals; Phoenicia Elementary School; whole school;
  N.Y. 2004
Earth Day Installation; Children's Annex; autistic children; Saugerties,
  N.Y. 2003
Mobile Health Van; Interior Van Painting/Murals; Self and others;
  Sponsored by Columbia County Health Consortium; Hudson, N.Y. 2002
Lyme Disease Mural; 3rd graders; Germantown Elementary School,
  N.Y. 2002
Varied Permanent and Temporary Projects; NYS Foundation for the Arts
   1986-02
Artist-in-Residency Programs; N.Y.C., Long Island, and upstate N.Y. Reading Garden; Titusville School; Poughkeepsie, N.Y.;
  3rd-5th graders 2001
Lunar Mandala Installation; at risk youth collaborating with those touched
  by cancer 2000
Mill Street Loft; Poughkeepsie, N.Y; Benedictine Hospital; Kingston,
  N.Y. 2000

SELECTED COLLECTIONS/ COMMISSIONS

Diana L. Rose; Woodstock, N.Y. 2009,07,02
Lucy Barbera; Woodstock, N.Y. 2009,08,06
Joan and Richard Kalmans; Weston, Conn. 2008,06,03
Robert Young; Woodstock, N.Y. 2008, 2004
Marvin Schildhorn; Kingston, N.Y. 2008, 2002
Nina Silverman; Kingston, N.Y. 2008, 07
Wendy Lyons; Mt. Tremper, N.Y. 2005
Andrea Goodman; Maine 2005
Ione; Kingston, N.Y. 2003
Robert Young; Bearsville, N.Y. 2003
Enid Kaplan/Jordan Dietcher; Montreal, Canada 2003, 2000
Audrey Steinhorn; Saugerties, N.Y. 2001
Stephen Brophy; Greenville, N.Y. 2000
Post Office History Murals; Catskill, N.Y. 1998
Elaine Oster; N.Y.C. 2000, 1988
Lisa Newell; Washington, D.C. 1999, 1990
Ione; Kingston, N.Y. 1999
Deborah Remsden; Woodstock, N.Y. 1998
Roslyn and Stanley Togut; Boca Raton, Fla. 1998
Hassenfeld Center Murals; N.Y.U. Hospital; N.Y.C. 1997-98
Catherine Street Community Center Mural; Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 1995
Our Lady of Victory Church; Bedford Stuyvesant, N.Y. 1994-95
Charlotte Mandel; Cedar Grove, N.J. 1994
June Gold; Westport, Conn. 1994
Anne Salacuse; Santa Monica, Ca. 1993
Stephen Schram; N.Y.C. 1992 William Lessaire; N.Y.C. 1992
The Glorious Church; Bedford Stuyvesant, N.Y. 1992
Greg McCaslin; N.Y.C. 1991


EDUCATION


Pratt Institute; Brooklyn, N.Y. MFA 1983
Washington University; St. Louis, Mo. BFA 1974

SELECTED BOOKS/PUBLICATIONS

On The Wall; Four Decades of Community Murals; U. of Mississippi Press 2009 by, Braun-Reinitz/Weissman, pgs.106-07, 194-97
Mandala, Journey to the Center; DK Publishing 2002 by Bailey Cunningham;
   Community Healing, p. 138
Making A Living While Making a Difference; New Society Publishers 1999 by,
   Melissa Everett; Catalysts for Change, pg. 90-91
Woodstock Times 12/4/08, 7/28/01, 4/1/99, 2/4/99, 11/13/98

Kingston Daily Freeman 8/ 31, 2009, 7/09; 12/4/08, 7/13/01, 8/13/00,
   6/11/99, 3/17/99
Art for Your Life; Healthy Living Magazine; Fall 2004/Winter 2005;
  pg.20-23 2005
Kingston Daily Freeman; front page, Catskill P.O. Mural Dedication 2/2004
Albany Times Union 4/13/99, 5/6/01, 7/1996
Hudson Valley Green Times 11/5/99
Hudson Valley Magazine 7/19/96 New York Times 9/19/91

     
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