Suzy Vance

Raised in the midwest and widely traveled, today Suzy Vance lives and creates in the Indiana Dunes National Park. She is a fiber artist. Inspired by nature all around her, she “paints" using animal and other fibers. Her work is her way of honoring our environment: Earth, the heavens, and nature.

Mostly self-taught, Suzy began playing with fiber when her mother taught her to knit at the age of 12. One thing has led to another… knitting… weaving… spinning… in 2007 felting… and, most recently, combining felting with paper-making.

Suzy says, “My home is the Earth. It’s the rock on which we all create. As Sister Corita Kent said:

We are all artists.

We do this every day. Not all of us are painters, but we are artists. Each time we put things together we are creating, whether a loaf of bread, a child, a day, or a life."