Susan Shields has been on faculty at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Continuing Education since 2004, teaching Life Drawing and Art Anatomy, Portraiture, Observational Drawing, Color Theory, Mining for Your Creative DNA, Portfolio Preparation, Teen Painting, Painting for Veterans in the Arts, and Outreach Senior Residents Painting.  Following her studies at Studio Art Centers, International and the Florence Academy of Art (both in Florence), she has taught through the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis Community and Technical College, St. Paul College, and many area art, nature, and community centers. Susan was a 2003–2004 fellow at Banfill-Locke Art Center, the 2007–2008 Exhibition Chair of (and a mentor for) the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota, and an Independent MFA Studies Advisory at Lesley University. In addition, she has illustrated multiple medical textbooks for the University of Minnesota and reviewed various arts education publications for the Teaching Artist Journal.  BFA University of Missouri / MFA Academy of Art University.

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WORK HISTORY- Arts Educator

• Faculty, Community Education, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, since 2004 

Observational Drawing, Painting, Life Drawing, Art Anatomy, Portrait Drawing and Painting, Creative Process, Color Theory, Veterans in the Arts, Teen Portfolio Prep, FAIR High School, Teen Painting

 

• IS Advisory MFA Program, Lesley University, 2016

http://www.lesley.edu/mfa/

 

• Faculty, Community Education, Minneapolis Community and Technical College, since 2008

Drawing, Painting, Color Theory, Printmaking, Sculpture, Portraiture, Life Drawing

 

• Community Arts Educator / Mentor since 1997

Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Botanical and Scientific Illustration- all ages and levels

Art Centers: Bloomington, Edina, Hopkins, White Bear, Banfill-Locke, Phipps

Nature Centers: Tamarack, Wargo, Eloise Butler and Loring Park Minneapolis Parks and Recreation

Minneapolis Institute for Arts:  Art Family Days and Art in the Parks

Healthcare Facilities: Catholic Eldercare and Bridgeview Mental Health

Women's Art Registry of Minnesota: Mentor,  2006-2008

 

• Arts Education Residencies Minnesota State Arts Board juried Arts in Education K-12 roster, since 1999

Renaissance Experience, Ancient Egyptian Experience, Self-Portraiture (Relief Sculpture, Fresco and Monotype), Observational Drawing and Painting, Botanical and Zoological Illustration, Printmaking Experience, Monarch Lifecycle, Frog Lifecycle, Life Drawing for High School Artists

McKinley School (Owatonna, MN)

Groves Academy (St. Louis Park, MN)

Blake Middle School (Hopkins, MN)

Sheridan K-8 (Minneapolis, MN)

Kelliher K-12 (Kelliher, MN)

Church of the Nativity K-12 (Bloomington, MN)

Linwood Elementary (St. Paul, MN)

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• Private Flute Lessons: Flute Choir, Rymer-Hadley School of Music, Banfill-Locke Art Center,  since 1998

• Dance Instructor: Ballet / Barre Tone, Banfill-Locke Center and Minneapolis Community Education,   since 2001

 

WORK HISTORY- Illustrator

University of Minnesota School of Dentistry: multiple textbooks, 2006 – 2009

Department of Speech Pathology: multiple textbooks, 2006 – 2009

University of Missouri Entomology Graduate Department:  entomological illustrations, 1986 – 1988

 

EDUCATION – Arts Related

MFA, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA, 2016

Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Women’s Art Institute, 2005

Florence Academy of Art, 1999

BFA, University of Missouri-Columbia / Studio Arts Centers, International, Florence, Italy, 1986

Studio Art Centers, International, Florence, Italy (SACI), 1984 - 85

SACI Independent Studies at La Specola Anatomical Wax Museum, 1984 -85

American International Foreign Studies, 1984 - 85    

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Minneapolis College of Art and Design, faculty show, 2014

Banfill-Locke Art Center, ‘First’ Show, 2012

Banfill-Locke Art Center juried members show, 2010, First Place

Women's Art Registry of Minnesota Program, 2006 (Solo)

Women's Art Registry of Minnesota Juried Show at Intermedia Arts, 2006

Banfill-Locke Art Center Fellowship Exhibition, Artist in Residence, 2005 (Solo)

Bloomington Art Center Exhibition Program, 2003 (Solo) 

Bloomington Art Center Instructors Show, 2002    

 

FELLOWSHIPS

Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence Fellowship, 2003 - 2005

Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Women's Art Institute, scholarship, 2005

 

JURIST

Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Community Arts Panel Review, 2009

Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts: Artist in Residence, 2005 – 2010

Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts: Writer in Residence, 2008

Blaine Fine Arts Council Annual Juried Show, 2009

Artists del Norte Annual Juried Exhibition, 2008

Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council Annual Juried Show 2007

Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota, Exhibition Coordinator, 2006 – 2007

 

ARTS WRITER / REVIEWER

Women's Art Registry of Minnesota Exhibitions Chair, Reviewer (2 reviews per month: 2006 - 2008)

Teaching Artists Journal "Resource Roundup" Design Team Member / Writer-Reviewer, since 2007

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MEDICAL AND TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Health Unit Coordinator, 1984 - 2000

 

University of Missouri-Columbia Hospital and Clinics 1984 – 1987:

• Coronary Care Unit

• Surgical Intensive Care Unit

• Medical Intensive Care Unit

• Burn Unit

• Thoracic Intensive Care Unit

• Neurosurgical Care Unit

• Surgical Step-Down Unit

 

Minneapolis Children’s Hospital and Clinic, 1987 – 1992

• Neonatal ICU

• Life Support Unit 

• Post Anesthesia Unit

 

Methodist Hospital, 1993 – 1994

• Oncology Floor

• Float (Floors and ICUs / ER)

 

North Memorial Medical Center, 1996 - 1998

• Surgical Intensive Care Unit

 

Fairview Riverside, 1998 - 2000

• Station 30 (Mental Health Unit)

• Float (Floors, ICUs, ER)

 

 

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER, 1991 - 1993

• Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center, Farmington, MN,  U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

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