40 Years a Professor
As I enter my 40th year teaching at Parsons School of Design in New York, I’ve been wondering how best to share the extraordinary work of my students from assignments I have developed to help them acquire the skills they need as artists and designers.
I’ve been archiving the strongest examples over the years. Each assignment has been honed carefully semester to semester, adjusting and refining to get the best outcomes. Those of you who teach art know how important it is to break each project down into achievable parts to fully accomplish an assignment’s goals.
I offer these as inspiration to those of you who will be teaching art in colleges and high schools. Feel free to use your own versions of them in your classrooms. I hope they will be helpful !
Susan Stillman Bio
Susan Stillman is a contemporary American painter. Her landscape paintings manifest her preoccupation with light and its transfiguration, using the backdrop of Stillman’s own suburban neighborhood.
Stillman holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA from Brooklyn College. She spent a year in Rome studying painting in RISD’s European Honors Program. A life-long educator, Stillman has been a faculty member at Parsons School of Design since 1983.
Her work has been featured in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, among others. She is a member of the Silvermine Artist Guild and NY Artists Equity and has exhibited her paintings at various galleries both in NY and surrounding areas.
She began her career as an Illustrator with work published in hundreds of magazines, newspapers, posters and books. Her clients included The New York Times, New York Magazine, Scholastic, and numerous others. Stillman was chosen to illustrate a special centennial edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses for Book of the Month Club, and she worked with writer Pete Hamill to illustrate his book, The Invisible City, a New York Sketchbook. Through her business, Home Portraits by Susan Stillman, she is well known for her vibrant commissions of homes and properties both locally and nationally.
