Susan Due Pearcy

About the Artist

Susan Due Pearcy was raised in St. Louis, MO. She studied art at Southeast Missouri State University and graduated from New York University with a B.S. in Painting, Graphics and Sculpture. She studied lithography at the Art Students League in New York City, etching at Fort Mason Art Center & and reduction woodblock at Graphic Arts Workshop in San Francisco, CA. Susan studied pastel at Montgomery College, MD. She has participated in numerous continuing education workshops. Susan worked in printmaking with the Graphics Workshop and the Printmaker’s Workshop with Ann Zahn. She was part of the painting group in Friendship Heights with Leo Saal and later with the Hyattstown Mill Arts Center. Pearcy’s art is held in the permanent collection of the Pushkin Museum, RUSSIA, the Chemalier Museum, FRANCE (award), the National Gallery of Art Rare Book Collection, WASHINGTON, DC, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA, Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, National Institutes of Health, Library of Congress, the National Reserve, Indonesian Embassy, Georgetown University and others. Her work has been exhibited from New York to Alaska and from Brussels to Brazil. She has received two MD State Arts Council grants and two CA State Arts Council grants and Outreach Grants from Montgomery County, MD to work in the community. She has exhibited in over 200 shows in her long art career. Her artwork produced while working with the United Farmworkers has been purchased by the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book Library, UCLA, Stanford University, Univ. of CA - San Diego and Georgetown University. In 2018 the Library of Congress in Washington, DC began archiving her art, letters, poems, journals, sketchbooks, watercolors and ephemera from her work with the United Farmworkers and the work created during her work in the Civil Rights Movement in Southwest Georgia in the late ’60’s-’70’s. She was selected as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women in 2009 by The Daily Record in Baltimore, MD. She is a Signature member of the Maryland Pastel Society and Exhibitions chair ofthe Hyattstown Mill Arts Center. She has participated in the Countryside Artisans Gallery & Studio Tour (www.countrysideartisans.com) for many years, opening Sugarloaf Studio to the public, three times a year. Sugarloaf Studio 21900 Beallsville Road P.O. Box 63 Barnesville, MD 20838 www.susanduepearcy.com