PUBLICATIONS & Awards

The Art of the Canoe with Joe Seliga. MBI Publishing 2002. Photography by Deborah Sussex.  Purchase a copy, signed by the photographer, in The SHOP.

Celebrating Birch; The Lore, Art and Craft of an Ancient Tree. North House Folk School 2007. Photography by Deborah Sussex. Purchase a copy, signed by the photographer, in The SHOP.

Ah Haa School for the Arts, Telluride, CO: “New Work by Regional Artists” ~ Two submissions selected for juried show and awarded  2^nd place. February 2016

Micro Grant; Durango Arts Center. Funding for Pastel materials to further personal studies. Spring, 2015

Durango Arts Center: “Members Exhibition” ~ Pastel painting submission selected for juried show and sold. Nov, 2014

Willowtail Springs Nature Preserve & Education Center, Mancos, CO: “Artist Residency in Photography” ~ Recently awarded for summer/fall, 2014

Ah Haa School for the Arts, Telluride, CO: “New Work by Regional Artists” ~ Submission selected for juried show and awarded 3^rd place. February 2014

Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, CO: “Exposure” ~ 2 submissions selected for juried photography show with one awarded for “Excellence”, December, 2013

Durango Arts Center: “Journey Stories” ~ Submission selected for juried show receiving Honorable Mention, November, 2013

Career Development Grant; Arrowhead Regional Arts Council. “Pastel; The Next Level”,

Workshop with master artist and teacher Richard McKinley. 2012

Quick Start Opportunity Grant; Arrowhead Regional Arts Council. “Pastel Stages; Emphasis Underpainting and Underdrawing”, Workshop with master artist and teacher Richard McKinley. 2012

Career Development Grant; Arrowhead Regional Arts Council. “Pastel Painting & Photography”,

One-on-one mentoring with master photographer Julianne Jonker. 2011

Quick Start Opportunity Grant; Arrowhead Regional Arts Council. “Studies in the Movement of Nature”,

Exhibit of personal work at the Open Eye Figure Theatre. 2011

Merit Award; Professional Photographers of America International Competition. Into the Mist, 2009

One Hundred and Fifty Lives That Make A Difference. Hamline University’s 150^th anniversary, 2005 I was chosen as one of the 150 people, in Hamline’s history, to be recognized/honored in the book

Northeastern Minnesota Book Award; Non-Fiction, Art, Scholarship for The Art of the Canoe with Joe Seliga. 2002