ABOUT ME

My name is Susan Lenz.  I am an American daughter of German immigrants.  I am a happy wife for just over forty-two years as I married my first and only love. I am a homeowner, a businesswoman, a custom picture framer, a taxpayer, a non-practicing Catholic, a member of a few non-profit organizations, a college graduate, a blogger, and Ernie and Mr. Minnie the Cats' "partner in crime"!

Most personally, I am an ARTIST.

My studio is in the renovated Cateechee mill village church outside Central, South Carolina (which is about ten miles from better known Clemson, SC). I stitch both by hand and machine but also indulge a passion for book arts and unique, 3D found art objects. Altering found photos is an obsession.

My work has appeared in national publications, numerous juried exhibitions, and at fine craft shows including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Smithsonian Craft Shows. I've been featured on art quilting television programs and on South Carolina Etv's Palmetto Scene. My work is in the permanent collections of the Textile Museum and the Department of Interior Museum, both in Washington, DC and in the McKissick Museum in South Carolina. The Grovewood Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina represents me.