susan white

SW16 12" x 20"

“I work in a variety of media. My primary forms are pyrographs or burn drawings, thornworks, and video/installation. 
Drawing has kind of wandered in through the back door and found a place in the middle of the room. I see the thornworks, constructions made from thorns of the honey locust tree, as three dimensional drawings, like crosshatch drawings in many ways, each mark responding to the one that came before.”

Susan currently is a participant in the City One Minutes Project in Amsterdam and is the recipient of a Lighton Grant in support of an artist residency in Japan in 2010. Among numerous other venues, her work has been exhibited at the Salina Art Center, the Bemis Center in Omaha and the Byron Cohen Gallery. In 2008 she collaborated with architectural historian, Cydney Millstein, on an exhibition at the Paragraph Gallery, as part of Kansas City’s Urban Culture Project. White is a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, has pursued graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design, and is an adjunct professor at UMKC. Her work is held in numerous private and corporate collections, the latter of which include Sprint, Hallmark and H&R Block.


Look for Susan in the Lynne Melcher film about the doll project. Lynne’s beautiful and moving documentary will be shown on the evening of the Change the Truth fundraiser.

Also, take a look at Susan's website to get a fuller sense of the different media in which she is involved.