Susan Benarcik
Through the Thicket, 2017
Vivid watercolor
24 x 18"

*Watercolors should be kept out of direct sunlight, as UV rays can fade pigments and damage paper. For preservation, display in indirect light and use UV-filtering glass or acrylic.

About
Susan Benarcik is a sculptor and garden designer based in Delaware. Evolving simultaneously as artist and gardener, Benarcik posses an innate understanding of natural materials, which is dually expressed in her artwork and garden designs. Hard wired to inspire audiences with a fresh perspective, her work has been exhibited across the country in galleries, museums, sculpture parks, arboreta, and botanic gardens such as the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Delaware Art Museum, and the New York Design Center.

The artist is the recipient of a 2017 Individual Artist Fellowship Award from Delaware Division of the Arts, a National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America Grant in 2017, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, in 2007. Her Master's degree in printmaking is from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and Bachelor's degree in Fine Art from Rosemont College.

Benarcik was an apprentice at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and most recently a Philadelphia CFEVA fellow. The artist teaches creativity workshops nation wide, and is a founding board member of the Jester Artspace, a non-profit organization in Wilmington, partnering with New Castle County to renovate a pre-civil war farmhouse for the arts.

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