Susan Skarsgard Industrial Designer, General Motors
Susan Skarsgard is an artist and designer known internationally for her original fine art works, site-specific installation art, graphic design, artist books, & calligraphy. Her work is widely collected by individuals and institutions which include the United States Library of Congress Rare Book Room; Newberry Library, Chicago, IL; University of Michigan Special Collections, San Francisco Public Library, and Smith College, Northampton, MA. As a lecturer and teacher, Ms. Skarsgard has conducted workshops and presentations for numerous institutions, organizations, and conferences, traveling extensively throughout North America, Australia and Europe. She has worked for 15 years in the Industrial Design department at General Motors and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan.
Sarah Turner Assistant Director for Academic Affairs, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Sarah Turner is the Assistant Director for Academic Affairs at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Before taking this position at Cranbrook in 2008, she was a visiting faculty member in the graduate programs of the Rhode Island School of Design and at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
Sarah received a Bachelors Degree in Sociology from Smith College and a Certificate in Metalsmithing at the Oregon College of Art & Craft. She earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2004. Her visiting faculty appointments at RISD and SUNY New Paltz followed teaching and arts administration experience in Portland, Oregon.
In 2005, Sarah Turner was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the Netherlands to conduct research in the field of Dutch contemporary jewelry. She has produced and juried exhibitions on contemporary applied art in the US and abroad. Currently, she is co-organizing “to be determined : an exhibition of the first five” an exhibition of contemporary jewelry to be shown in Seattle as part of the 2010 Society of North American Goldsmiths’ national convention. Ms. Turner is a board member of the Southeast Michigan Fulbright Assocation and has lectured about her own work as well as Dutch and American contemporary jewelry and metalsmithing both nationally and in Europe.
