Suzanne Klotz is a painter and sculptor active in Arizona.
Education
Klotz attended Washington University in Saint Louis for two years of undergraduate education. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Kansas City Art Institute, Master of Fine Arts Degree from Texas Technical University, and Secondary Teaching Certification from the University of Missouri Kansas City.
Career
She has established numerous multi-cultural art programs, workshops, and exhibitions in several countries including Australia, Africa, Mexico, Taiwan, Israel, Palestine, and the United States. In 1990, Klotz was an artist-in-residence and arts consultant at the Jerry Mason Memorial Aborigine Centre in Berri, South Australia. Between 1990 and 1996 she arranged exhibitions and art collaborations between Israeli and Palestinian artists during guest artist residencies at Mishkenot Sha"ananim, a non-governmental, non-political, International Cultural Centre in Jerusalem.
In addition, the Palestine Children"s Welfare Fund established a Palestinian Educators Scholarship Endowed Fund dedicated to Suzanne Klotz.
Klotz"s academic appointments include universities and colleges in Arizona, California, Texas and Utah. Her art has been exhibited in over 300 exhibitions internationally since 1972 and is in numerous private and public collections including the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Phoenix Art Museum and El Paso Museum of Artist