First Friday Artwalk August 2nd : Susan Stevens

First Friday Art Walk!  August's featured artist is Bozeman Local, Susan Stevens. 

4-8pm 

Susan Stevens : 

My love for the natural world comes from a strong lineage of land and wildife conservation. I am an advocate for openspace and the use of public lands and I am grateful for having spent most of my life being able to witness and enjoy wild places that are now under threat of extinction. I cannot imagine a world without it and my hope is that I can, at the very least, preserve these places through my painting.

I was born in 1961 in southeastern Pennsylvania and lived there my entire childhood. In 1986, I received a BA in Art History from Montana State University. That same year I married and moved south to Hattiesburg, Mississippi where my husband and I have since lived and raised our two children. From 2004-2013 I taught elementary art at the school our children attended. I am an active member of the Women’s Art Collective, in Hattiesburg, the Mississippi Art Colony, The Degas Pastel Society, and the Pastel Society of America. My husband and I now divide our time between Mississippi and Montana.