Arizona-based sculptor Susan Kliewer has been creating iconic Southwestern bronzes for over thirty years. Her work appears in significant museum and public collections, including the Museum of Indian Culture and Arts in Santa Fe, NM; Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Wickenburg, AZ; Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA; and Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens in Hawaii. In 1994, Kliewer won a competition to create a monumental sculpture of Arizona pioneer Sedona Schnebly; you can see the 10' work in its installation at the Sedona, Arizona Public Library.
Published online courtesy Western Art Collector, April 2009
Published online courtesy Sedona Monthly, 2006
Susan Kliewer's sculpture at the Navajo (Dine') Compound at Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens and Sculpture Park in Kilauea Kauai, Hawaii
Reprinted courtesy of Southwest Art
Western sculptor Susan Kliewer pays a visit to the Medicine Man Gallery studio and discusses her long and difficult road to becoming an artist with host Dr. Mark Sublette. Susan Kliewer chronicles the wonderful story behind her ascent to finding her artistic footing including (but not limited to) winning her first art show at age 9, declining a scholarship to a prestigious LA art school, and smashing gender barriers working in an Arizona foundry in the 1970s and 80s.