BIOGRAPHY

Susan Caumont                                                                               

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- Most recent one person shows: February, 2010, Highway Girls, Melbourne, Florida.

November and December, 2009, Cocoa Beach Library, Cocoa Beach, Florida.

- Established Cocoa Beach Gallery .com , 2009.

- Wrote and illustrated children's book, “Illyria's World”, 2007

- Have been a working fine artist and illustrator since 1970: Numerous awards and paintings in private collections.

Professional Experience:

- Board Member SACC, Schenectady Access Cable Council, 2010.

- Energy Show, host/programmer/engineer, WRPI at RPI University, Troy, NY 2006-08.

- Energy Show and 'Democracy Now,' Week in Review, Cable Access TV, Albany and Schenectady, NY 2006 – Present.

- Spokesperson for Renew the Earth, Vienna, VA 2007 – Present. Travel internationally to attend conferences, most recently the International Biochar Conference, Australia 2007.

- Principal, Biofuels America!, Westerlo, NY 1997- Present. Write hand outs and oped articles on sun, wind and biomass energies. Also travel internationally to conferences and meetings to educate and learn new technologies.

- Sailor, East Coast of United States 2000-2007 Documented these trips with drawings and a journal.

Natural Science Illustrator, The Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Washington, DC 1986-1997. Illustrated for various museum scientists, insects, birds, mammals, fish. Demonstrator at 'Bug Fest' on the Mall, Washington, DC and did illustration demonstrations for the public during an interactive exhibit at the Museum. 

- Artist in Residence, Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve, Rensselaerville, NY, 1997

- Lettering Designer for stone carvers in Washington DC, working for Vogel, Stone and Granite, Manassas, VA 1983-86. Designed lettering for, Sackler Gallery, African Art Museum and Hart Senate Office Building. Gilded lettering on Iwo Jima Memorial, Arlington Cemetery.

- Medical Illustrator, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC 1974-1976. Made medical illustrations, teaching aids and animations.

Memberships:

Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, Washington, DC

Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve and Biological Research Station, Rensselaerville, NY

Renew the Earth, Vienna VA

Schenectady Access Cable Council, NY

Sanctuary for Public Media, Troy, NY

Dianondahowa Nature Preserve and Sanctuary

 

Education:

BFA Rhode Island School of Design