Harvard Divinity School Exhibit and Presentation

Susan Swartz Art Exhibit
April 12-20, 2005
Braun Room, Andover Hall
Harvard Divinity School

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."