Art Quilting
Dr. Susan Kruszynski – lives in Muskegon, Michigan, and is an award-winning art quilt designer, teacher/presenter, author, and gallery artist.
Susan currently divides her time between creating original collaged
art quilt designs, marketing this fiber art in shows and galleries, teaching art quilting classes, and giving lectures and trunk shows for quilt guilds.
As a retired literacy specialist, Susan uses her 40+ years of K-College level teaching experiences and a PhD in Education to teach this art through in-class experiences in and around the state of Michigan, through on-line instruction, and with art quilt books from Fox-Chapel Publishing.
This onetime kindergarten teacher
knows how to passionately teach art quilting!
Dr. Susan Kruszynski’s business, Quilting Fabrics in Time, showcases landscape art quilts. Landscape quilting falls under the “art quilt” category, where natural landscape forms are layered on a fabric background by appliquéing lots of other fabric pieces. With a background as a long-time quilter, she began landscape fabric design in 2014.
Susan currently divides her time between creating original fabric landscape art quilt designs, teaching the art of quilted fabric landscaping in classes around the state of Michigan, marketing fabric art at shows, and just recently retired as an adjunct of reading at Muskegon Community College with a PhD in Education. Look for her first book called Art Quilts Made Easy Mini Book in October of 2021. A native of Michigan, her works are often inspired by the trees and woodlands along the Lake Michigan shoreline.
- Grand Rapids ArtPrize Nine 2017 (TOP 25), Reaching Upward ; J.Gardella’s Tavern on 11 Ionia
- Grand Haven ArtWalk 2017, Michigan Cities in Monochromes; Blueberry Haven, 213 Washington
- Michigan Education Association (MEA) Art Acquisitions Purchase Exhibition March 2018 and 2019
- (JURORS’ CHOICE AWARD and PURCHASE AWARD); 1216 Kendale, Lansing
- Grand Haven ArtWalk 2018, A Touch of Teal on the Lakeshore; GH Community Center, 421 Columbus and Kauai, the Garden Island, J.P. Morgan's Jewelry, 2019
- Grand Haven Lighthouse Quilt Guild Show 2018, 1st PLACE, Teal Trees on the Lakeshore and 2019, 1st PLACE, Resilience #1; Grand Haven, Michigan
- Grand Rapids ArtPrize Ten 2018, Michigan Cities in Monochromes; Griffin’s Offices