Title
Distinguished Professor of Art + Design, Graduate Director of Art + DesignEducation
Master of Fine Arts in Textile Design, University of KansasMaster of Science in Art Education, Indiana University
Bachelor of Art, Indiana University
Biography
Susan Brandeis is Distinguished Professor of Art and Design at the College of Design, North Carolina State University. She holds a Master of Science degree in Art Education from Indiana University and a Master of Fine Arts in Textile Design from the University of Kansas. Since 1982 she has taught at the College of Design, where she coordinates undergraduate and graduate studies in Fibers and Surface Design; is a founding member of the Anni Albers Scholars Program faculty; and teaches classes in the textile arts which focus on screen printing, dyeing, fibers materials and processes, off-loom structures, pattern, color, textile history, and contemporary issues in fibers. She serves as the Director of Graduate Programs for the Department of Art and Design. She works with a wide range of students whose interests span the spectrum from designing textiles for mass production to creating one-of-a-kind art works.Her creative work has focused on continuing investigations in dyeing and printing both industrially produced and hand-woven fabrics, the juxtaposition of pattern and color, the contrast of materials and textures, and digital printing and embellishment. Her explorations are directed toward developing a visual “language” of materials and techniques which communicates the essential qualities found in nature, inspired by hiking and visiting places of great natural beauty. Her art works for the wall have been published in the books Celebrating the Stitch, The Surface Designer’s Art, and The Art Quilt, and in leading craft and textile art magazines such as American Craft, Fiberarts, and Surface Design Journal, and have been exhibited throughout the United States and in England, Ireland, Finland, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Colombia, at the International Biennial of Tapestry in Lausanne, Switzerland, and at the Textile Museum in Washington, DC. She is represented in numerous private and public collections, including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian. She has taught summer workshops at Penland School of Crafts (North Carolina), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (Tennessee), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (Maine), Oregon College of Arts and Crafts (Oregon), and the Split Rock Arts Program (Minnesota). She is recipient of three visual arts fellowships from the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources and a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers, North Carolina State University.
