About the Artist   Susan Jane Belton, "Familiar Strangers"

Born in Chicago, Susan Jane Belton graduated from ColbyCollege and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Sheis the recipient of grants including Massachusetts Cultural Coun-cil Painting Fellowships, the Boston Cultural Council, and theClarissa Bartlett Traveling Fellowship from the Museum of FineArts Boston.

Her work is in public and private collections including AidekmanArts Tufts University, Colby College Art Museum, Boston PublicLibrary, De Cordova Museum, Duxbury Art Complex Museum,Hood Museum of Dartmouth College, M.I.T., Fleming MuseumUniversity of Vermont, and Zillman Museum University of Maine.She has exhibited widely including Boston Museum of FineArts, Hayden Gallery, M.I.T., Berkshire Art Museum, FitchburgArt Museum, California State University at Fullerton, BostonAthenaeum, Artspace New Haven, Newport Art Museum, andProvincetown Art Museum.

She has had nine solo exhibits at George Billis Gallery, New York.This is her fifth solo exhibit at Anderson Yezerski Gallery, Boston.She recently retired after nearly forty years as faculty of the Schoolof the Museum of Fine Arts @ Tufts University.