Spending her childhood in southern California, Susan Kliewer showed early art talent which was encouraged by her family. For eight years, she prepared sculpture for bronze casting in a foundry for... Read full biography
Spending her childhood in southern California, Susan Kliewer showed early art talent which was encouraged by her family. For eight years, she prepared sculpture for bronze casting in a foundry for well-known Arizona sculptors John Hampton, Joe Beeler, and Buck McCain. In 1988, she decided to do her... Read full biography
Spending her childhood in southern California, Susan Kliewer showed early art talent which was encouraged by her family. For eight years, she prepared sculpture for bronze casting in a foundry for well-known Arizona sculptors John Hampton, Joe Beeler, and Buck McCain. In 1988, she decided to do her own sculpting, and in 1991 won the People's Choice Award at the juried National Sculpture Walk in Sedona, Arizona. A key mentor has been Ken Ottinger at the Sedona Art Center, and she also took... Read full biography
Spending her childhood in southern California, Susan Kliewer showed early art talent which was encouraged by her family. For eight years, she prepared sculpture for bronze casting in a foundry for well-known Arizona sculptors John Hampton, Joe Beeler, and Buck McCain. In 1988, she decided to do her own sculpting, and in 1991 won the People's Choice Award at the juried National Sculpture Walk in Sedona, Arizona. A key mentor has been Ken Ottinger at the Sedona Art Center, and she also took anatomy classes at Northern Arizona State University. Her subjects are Navajo people, many whom have become close friends.... Read full biography
Spending her childhood in southern California, Susan Kliewer showed early art talent which was encouraged by her family. For eight years, she prepared sculpture for bronze casting in a foundry for well-known Arizona sculptors John Hampton, Joe Beeler, and Buck McCain. In 1988, she decided to do her own sculpting, and in 1991 won the People's Choice Award at the juried National Sculpture Walk in Sedona, Arizona. A key mentor has been Ken Ottinger at the Sedona Art Center, and she also took anatomy classes at Northern Arizona State University. Her subjects are Navajo people, many whom have become close friends.... Read full biography
Susan Kliewer - Artist Info
About Susan Kliewer: Books
Books & Publications (6)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Cowgirl Up! Art from the Other Half of the West Desert Caballeros Western Museum Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
2006
McGarry, Susan Hallsten (Essay)
68 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Art of the West Guidebook of Western Artists 2001 Edition
2001
Editors, Art of the West
88 pages (color)
Mountain Oyster 28th Annual Contemporary Western Art Show (Exhibition catalog)