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AWARDS
Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market, Phoenix, AZ (2013)  Conrad House Award

SWAIA, Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM (2012) Tammy Garcia Award of Excellence, 2nd Place

Eiteljorg Museum Indian Market & Fair, Indianapolis, IA (2012) Best of Division, 1st Place

Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market, Phoenix, AZ (2012)  Best of Division, 2nd place

Southwest Indian Art Fair, Arizona State Museum, Tucson, AZ (2012) Best of Division, 1st place

SWAIA, Santa Fe, Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM (2011) Best of Division, 1st Place

Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market, Phoenix, AZ (2011) Best of Division, 1st place

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Phoenix, AZ (2008)  Governor’s Arts Awards, Gift to “Individual Awards Recipient”

Heard Museum Indian Market, Phoenix, AZ (2004) Best of Division - Non Traditional
SWAIA, Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM (2003) Best of Division, 1st Place
SWAIA, Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM (2001) Best of Division, 1st Place
SWAIA, Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM (2000) Best of Division, 1st Place
SWAIA, Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM (1999) Best of Division, 1st Place

Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Arts and Crafts Fair, NM  (1997) Best of Show

SWAIA, Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM (1996) Best of Division, 1st Place


EXHIBITIONS
Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK (2013) Future Earth w/ Jody Naranjo

Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (2012) Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark & Mark Del Vecchio Collection

Arizona Sate Museum, Tucson, AZ (2011-) The Pottery Project: Potters in the Vanguard

Elmore Indian Art, Santa Fe, NM (2011) Blood & Dirt: A Collaboration w/ Douglas Miles

Folwell.Koenig/Michael D. Higgins Gallery, Tucson, Az (2011) Blood & Dirt: A Collaboration w/ Douglas Miles

Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ (2010) Transcending Traditions in Contemporary American Indian Art

King Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ (1999,2000,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010)

Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ (2009) Mothers & Daughters: Stories in Clay

Stedelijk Museum - Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (2006) Free Spirit: The New Native American Potter
Vasser College, Poughkeepsie, NY (2006) Forms of Exchange: Art of Native Peoples from the Edward J. Guarino Collection
National Museum of the American Indian, Washington D.C. (2005-2006) Osama Ken Barbie

Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe/Taos, NM (2001,2002,2004,2005)

Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ (2004) Breaking the Surface: Carved Pottery Techniques and Design

Museum of Art and Design, NY, NY (2002) Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 1
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA. (2002) PMA Craft Show

Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS (1999) One Woman Show


PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Montclair Museum, Montclair, NJ
National Museum of the American Indian/Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
Stedelijk Museum, Netherlands

de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IA

Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, NY

Arizona State Museum, Tucson, AZ

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Phoenix, AZ

Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK

Hallmark Permanent Collection, Kansas City, KS

Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS

Augustana College, Rock Island, IL

Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Where there is clay, there is hope. –  Susan Folwell

Born and raised in Santa Clara Pueblo, Susan grew up immersed in the world of traditional pueblo pottery." It is the use of native clays and interpreting native designs which creates the foundation for her art. Inspired by personal and world events, Susan's pottery blends catharsis of the spirit with a love of the clay. Coil by coil, each piece is slowly brought to life. The form becomes the canvas for her designs, which are carved, etched and painted onto and into the clay. The designs are a beautiful and cautious blend of innovation and tradition, ideal and metaphor, spiritual and social. When each piece is finished, Susan knows as an artist that she has presented a moment of herself into the clay and her personal expression continues to find voice in her art.

Susan Folwell's pottery is like reading a book, as each piece must be turned, examined and viewed from different angels to understand the whole story.  - American Indian Art Magazine