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Susan Swartz has been painting for over 30 years, concentrating
primarily on impressionistic landscapes and nature scenes using various
mediums - oils,
watercolors, and acrylics. She was commissioned as the environmental
artist for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, and was awarded the Governor's
Mansion Award for Artist of the Year in Utah. Her work is shown in
galleries in Utah, Colorado, and Martha's Vineyard, and is found in
numerous private, museum, and corporate collections.
Susan was invited to HDS as a visiting artist in recognition of her
30-plus-year search into how the spiritual and artistic lives intersect.
She paints "what God created," and signs her work "Glory
to God," crediting her faith as her inspiration for her work.
Remembering what Michelangelo once said, that "good art is nothing
but a replica of the perfection of God and a reflection of His
art," Swartz will spend time at Harvard Divinity School sharing her own experience of how her role
as an artist is to interpret what God created.
Her hope is that students and faculty might be encouraged to look at
an artistic life as a spiritual path, and understand more fully HDS
alumnus Ralph Waldo Emerson's declaration that "art is the path of
the creator to his work."
For more information on Swartz, please visit her website.
 
 
 
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