Course Title: The Photo Essay: Seeing San Deigo Through Image and Text
Department: Fine Arts

Email: www.susannahbielak.com

Education

Masters of Fine Arts Candidate,
University of California, San Diego, expected June 2009

Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, Studio Arts Major, Psychology Major, Anthropology Minor
Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, May 1998

 

Experience

Academic Connections Instructor, UCSD Extension, San Diego, CA, July 2008

Teaching Assistant, Visual Art Department, University of California San Diego, Sept. 2006 – present

Minneapolis Emerging Artist Leaders, Co-organizer of peer mentoring group, Jan. 2005 – Aug. 2007

Minnesota Center for Book Arts, By Design mentor to high school artists, April – Aug. 2002

Intermedia Arts, Institute for Community Cultural Development, Fellow in leadership program for artist and community cultural development leaders, Jan. – May 2002

Articulture, Teacher for continuing education courses, Minneapolis, MN, Sept. 2002 – Sept. 2003

Feb. 2001 – June 2006
Arts Midwest, Minneapolis, MN, Program Manager, Cultural and Communications Manager
Managed a variety of regional, national and international programs. Responsible for program research and conception, implementation, publicizing, and future planning. Developed framework for binational art-in- public places program to bring photography and writing to highways in the U.S. and Mexico, evaluating and redeveloping a global educational performing arts residency program, and leading in the development of new documentary photography initiative, The Somali Documentary Project.

Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Freelance grant writer, teacher, apprentice artist-in- residence, Sept. 1998 – Jan. 2002

 

Honors/Affiliations/Publications

2008 – 2009, UC MEXUS Dissertation Grant, University of California

2008, Humanities Center Grant, University of California San Diego

2008, Russell Foundation Grant, University of California San Diego

Jacqueline L. Zemel Award, Curator’s merit-based award for 79th Annual Competition, May 2005
Highpoint Center for Printmaking/Jerome Foundation Emerging Printmakers’ Fellowship, May 2003 – Jan. 2004, Fellowship Recipient
Minnesota Center for Book Arts/Jerome Book Arts Fellowship, Dec. 1999 – June 2001,
University of Minnesota, Lectured on work (July 2006)
Art MoCo, Featured in a modern contemporary art web magazine (Dec. 2005)
Minnesota Museum of American Art, Lectured on work (Dec. 2005)
mnartists.org, Featured in online collections, Anthropology in the Arts (July 2005), (Nov. 2005)
New American Paintings, Featured in juried exhibition-in-print (Aug. 2004)
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Lectured on work for DesignWorks program (Jan., 2004)
Double Vision, Featured in catalog essay by Andrew Knighton on TwinsTwins exhibition at Soo Visual
Arts Center (Sept. 2002)
National Endowment for the Arts, Website feature-length articles published (2001, 2002, 2003)
Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Printmaking Cooperative Member, Minneapolis, MN, 1-00 -8-07
Phi Beta Kappa, Psi Chi Honors Society, De-Witt Wallace Distinguished Scholarship
Permanent Collections at the: Walker Art Center, Brighton Corp, Faribault Foods, & Regions Hospital & Numerous addition Exhibitions