About

Suzanne teaches workshops and college courses in art, indigenous aesthetics, art history and art methods. She is also accepting commission requests from photos or life drawing and painting. She can be booked for workshops and professional development consulting.

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Suzanne is a Montana artist, producer, scholar and teacher. Following in the tradition of the many generations of Montana artists in her family, she creates intimate landscape experiences using oil, acrylic and photography as mediums.

Her work is featured in the collections of Peter Held and  Rick Newby, as well as regional collections. Her work has been shown at the Plains Museum, Fargo North Dakota, The Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown North Dakota, The Northwest Arts Center Minot State University and juried shows at The Yellowstone Art Museum, The Holter Museum of Art, the Missoula Art Museum, and a major one woman showings including the University of Montana, Western. She has been awarded artist residencies funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Suzanne holds degrees from The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred and The University of Montana. She has an interdisciplinary doctorate in Art Education and Native American Studies from the University of Montana 2009. She currently teaches at Salish Kootenai College and has held teaching positions at Minot State University and The University of Montana – Western. Shope is a practicing artist who exhibits regionally and a consultant in rural education. She is working on a paper focused on her experiences developing  a more equitable pedagogy for rural Montana colleges. Shope is currently working as a consultant developing Native American art and material culture curricula for regional museums and producing films based in Montana.

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