• "The picture I make is never exactly the one I started out to make, but that is of no importance. I am very flexible on the set. The script provides the starting point, as well as offering security. After the first weeks, the picture takes on a life of its own. The film grows as you are making it, like relationships with a person."
• - Federico Fellini, filmmaker

Creative Consultation

innovation in planning and design

I work with individuals and groups--artists, actors, architects, educators, therapists, social service agencies, designers, writers, nurses, entrepreneurs-- to infuse problem solving and conceptualizing with creative spark and depth.

We design a series of dynamic actions. From the results of the experiments, we shape a vision that brings clarity and dimension to the project without sacrificing the spirit or intention of the work.

Consulting can take the form of an individual session (1.5 hour minimum), a retreat, a presentation, or a performance project. Fee is project-specific.

Organizations

• Portland Community College/library system strategic plan
• Portland Public Schools/staff training and evaluation/arts program Portland Public Schools Leadership/workshop, art and planning
• Hopewell House Hospice/storytelling, art and healing
• Portland Policy and Planning workshop/leadership and public policy
• Multnomah County/storytelling workshop for home health providers
• Portland Public Schools/media literacy training for staff

Directing

Monologues, dance/theatre works, poetry, multi-media performances. (Vita lists directing projects and artists.)

Teaching Residencies

Susan is a teacher with the Community of Writers / writers in schools program.

"Susan is a visionary with an uncanny ability to visualize the movement of emotion. She added such lucidity and nuance to my work, audiences were spellbound. For a poet, it was nirvana. "

"Now I am an artist who teaches instead of a teacher who has kids do art."

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