Susan Shymanski Carlowicz graduated from Seton Hall in 1978 where she studied studio art /art and music history. While a student, she always loved studying the ancient arts and antiquities.
She obtained a teaching certification from SHU to teach art in grades k-12 as a graduate student. After graduating she continued to take graduate art classes in the area, as well as taking several programs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her first break was as an Art Director and freelance artist at the public and government relations firm of Holt & Ross in NJ for 10 years (80’s – 90’s).
She left to focus on her family but managed to freelance for many years. She then taught fine arts for many years in several Catholic Schools in central Jersey. She has been teaching art classes to adults and children at the Arts Council of Princeton for over 10 years where she was instrumental in starting a home school program for area teens. Her vision at the Arts Council is to bring the academic approach to drawing and painting to her students.
Presently, she is semi-retired and has returned to the studio to pursue the advanced study of The Russian Academic Method of art which she has always loved.
She remembers spending time sketching and studying classical art in her college years. To fulfill this current goal, she is a part time student at Princeton Academy of Art where she studies anatomy, portrait painting and drawing. The academy merges the methods of classical atelier and Russian Academic approach. She studies with Director Anna Neis, Gilberto Geraldo and James Sondow who all studied together at the Russian academy in Moscow. In addition, Susan has also studied the art of iconology Sacred Art of Icons.
Seton Hall merely instilled a love of all things beautiful in the arts. She is grateful for this opportunity to share where her studies have taken her in life.
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