Brief Bio

            Viewed as a spiral, my life has continued to circle back to my identity as a visual artist, each time returning with deeper insight.  The arts defined my family’s cultural identity; and drawing gave me satisfaction, solace, and an integrated sense of self as a child, adolescent, and young adult.  I majored in painting at the Boston Museum School and studio arts at Brandeis University.  In September of 2009, I received her MFA as a student at Massachusetts College of Art and Design at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

            My various careers in the arts have contributed to the depth and maturity of my visual art today: a writer at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; an art therapist focusing on the creative abilities of abused children and adults with severe mental illness; the Associate Editor of the journal, Art Therapy; a full-time faculty member and Associate Professor in Lesley University’s Expressive Therapies Division; the Coordinator of Lesley’s Art Therapy Program; and a Senior PhD Advisor in their PhD Program.  Now a full-time artist living in West Hartford, CT, I have exhibited works on paper in over 30 exhibitions over the past two years, earned numerous awards, and am represented in several private collections. I also teach at Springfield College and the West Hartford Art League.

 

Abbreviated Resume

SUSAN SPANIOL, EdD, ATR, LMHC, MFA
159 Selden Hill Drive, West Hartford, CT  06107
860-216-1391
sspaniol@comcast.net

susanspaniol.com

Education

MFA   2009               Developmental Studies, Boston University, Boston, MA

EdD    1993              Boston University School of Education and Counseling, Boston, MA  

EdD    1979              Expressive Therapies, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA

BFA    1965              Studio Arts, Brandeis University, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, Waltham, MA

           

Awards

2010                           Third Prize, CT + 5, West Hartford Art League, West Hartford, CT

2010                           First Prize, Annual Jeried Exhibition, West Hartford Art League, CT

2008                           Third Prize, Artist' Reactions to War, Truro Center for the Arts, MA

2007                          Gallery Choice, Women’s Stories, Huron Valley Council for the Arts. Highland, MI

2006                          Second Prize, Artist Members' Juried Exhibition, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA      

MFA Thesis Exhibitions:

2009                         Alden Gallery, Provincetown, MA, September 11 - 21

2009                         Provincetown Art Association and Museum, September 25 - October 11

 

Two-Person Exhibition

2005                         Dual Exposure/Domestic Art, Marran Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010                          Independent Visions, River Street Gallery, New Haven, CT

2010                          Shared Visions/Different Voices, Noah Webster Library, West Hartford, MA

2010                          Art Walk, West Hartford Center, West Hartford Art League

2010                          Faculty Exhibition, West Hartford Art League, West Hartford, CT

2010                          Nine Lives, Doran Graduate Gallery, Mass. College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

2010                          CT + 5: All New England Exhibition, West Hartford Art League, West Hartford, CT

2010                          Annual Members' Juried, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT

2010                          Lasting Impressions, Salem Fine Arts Center, Winston-Salem, NC       

2005-09                  Members’ Juried Exhibitions, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

2005, 07                  Spring Arts Festival Competitions, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown

2008                         Artists’ Reactions to War, Castle Hill, Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, MA

2007                         Passages and Process: The Unique Print, Printmakers of Cape Cod

2006                        From Our Perspective, Womancenter, Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, MI

2005                        L’Or V’Dor: From Generation to Generation, Jewish Women Artists’ Network and Hebrew                                        College National Juried Exhibition, Hebrew College, Newton, MA

2005                        Overtures: Women’s Caucus for the Arts, Holyoke Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2004                       Art by Healers, School of Art and Design, Endicott College, Beverly, MA

2004                      Linking the Arts & Healthcare: Fresh Ideas/New Voices, Regional Society for the Arts in                                                 Healthcare, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

 

Teaching Experience

2010                          Adjunct Professor, Springfield College Department of Visual & Performing Arts

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010                          Nine Lives, Doran Graduate Gallery, Mass. College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

                                                       Springfield, MA   

2010                          Instructor, West Hartford Art League, West Hartford, CT

1994-2005                 Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, Positions Included:

                                                     Associate Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences: Art                                                       Therapy 

                                                     Program Coordinator; Research and Thesis Coordinator; Senior PhD Advisor

                                                     Fellow for the Center for Research; Adjunct Counseling Psycology and                                                        Creative Arts in Learning Programs