Suzanne Stutzman

Illustrator At Large

You can contact Suzanne at smstutzman1@gmail.com

Artist's Statement

I am a creative individualist with a passion for telling stories about nature and how
the world works through art.

Illustration Experience

• Two of my botanical illustrations part of the U.S. Botanic Gardens “Flora of the National Parks” exhibit 2016
• One of my botanical illustrations was selected to represent the 50th anniversary of the Denver Botanic Gardens Conservatory
• Wrote and illustrated Send Me a Box of Wolverines, published 2014
• Published “Will Draw for Food” in the Journal of Natural Science Illustration, 2014, No. 1
• Voices of the Wilderness Artist In Residence, Tracy Arm – Fords Terror Wilderness, 2013
• Wrote and illustrated Wilderness Explorer Jr. Ranger Activity Book for the National Park
  Service, more than 40,000 copies printed and distributed as of 2014
• Exhibited in jurried shows at the Denver Botanic Gardens 2012, 2013, 2014
• Journal paintings and sketches published in Kamchatka, Russia, protected areas newsletter 2011
• stutzman illustrator at large resume 2-27-16

Illustration Skills

• Certificate of Botanical Art and Illustration from the Denver Botanic Gardens, 2013
• Watercolor
• Pen and Ink
• Graphite
• Colored Pencil
• Watercolor Pencil
• Handmade bookbinding
• Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign

Other Experience

35 year career with the National Park Service as a landscape architect, park planner, and wilderness program manager