Suzie Thomas Resume

AWARDS
• Third Place & Honorable Mention: Oil & Acrylic/Floral, Still Life & Abstract - Mother
Lode Art Association’s 51st Annual Art Exhibit in Sonora, California, 2003
• Judges Award: Landscape – Ironstone Vineyards’ Spring Obsession Art Competition in
Murphys, California, 2003
• Honorable Mention: Still Life - Delicato Vineyards’ 15th Annual Juried Art Show in
Manteca, California, 2003
• Honorable Mention: Oil & Acrylic/Landscape, Seascape & Cityscape - Mother Lode
Art Association’s 50th Annual Art Exhibit in Sonora, California, 2002
• First Place: Mixed Media/Still Life & Third Place: Mixed Media/Abstract - Mother
Lode Fair in Sonora, California, 2002
• Third Place: Mixed Media/Abstract - Mother Lode Fair in Sonora, California, 2001
• First Place: Graphic/Multi-Media - Mother Lode Art Association’s 48th Annual Art
Exhibit in Sonora, California, 2000

EXHIBITIONS
• Guest Artist at Bradford Studio B in Sonora, California - 2007
• Mother Lode Artist Association’s Annual Art Exhibit in Sonora, California - 2000-2003 &
2005
• Art & Wine Extravaganza in Sonora, California – 2002, 2003, 2004 & 2005
• Spring Obsession Art Competition at Ironstone Vineyards in Murphys, California - 2003 &
2004
• Still-life Show, group show, at Upstairs at the Vault gallery in Sonora, California - 2003
• Art of the Gold Country at Saddle Creek in Copperopolis, California - 2003
• Delicato Vineyards’ 15th Annual Juried Art Show in Manteca, California – 2003
• Celebrating 50 Years: The Best of the Mother Lode Art Association, group show, at Central
Sierra Arts Council in Sonora, California – 2002
• Featured Artist at the Post Gallery in Sonora, California – 2001 & 2002
• Mother Lode Fair, Sonora, California – 2001 & 2002
• Featured Artist at Servente’s Saloon in Sonora, California – 2001
• Under the Mediterranean Sun, group show, at CSAC in Sonora, California - 2001
• Featured Artist at Brook’s Framing and Art in Sonora, California - 2000
• Women’s Art Show at Columbia College in Columbia, California - 1999
• Solo Exhibition at Gresham City Hall in Gresham, Oregon - 1990
• Senior Show, group show, at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon - 1990
• Gone Fishing, group show, at the Ladd Circle Gallery in Portland, Oregon - 1990
• Early Spring Show, two-person show, at the Art Space Gallery in Bay City, Oregon -
1990
• Abstract Seascapes, one-person show, at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon -
1990

FESTIVALS
• Murphys Gold Rush Street Faire - 2003
• Columbia Art Show - 2003
• Santa Clara Art & Wine Festival - 2003
• Cupertino Art & Wine Festival - 2003
• Sunnyvale Art & Wine Festival - 2003
• Walnut Creek Fine Art Festival - 2003

COLLECTIONS
• J. Victoria Bailey - Bainbridge, Georgia
• Susan Davenport – Santa Clara, California
• Fawn deTurk - Manzanita, Oregon
• Paula Ericksson - Loudon, Tennesse
• Mrs. Terrell Farmer – Orinda, California
• Tony Fernandez, Jr. – Napa, California
• Denise Flaim - Sea Cliff, New York
• Edith L. Greene – Santa Clara, California
• Lisa M. Guevara – Millbrae, California
• Mr. Kelly Howard – Arnold, California
• Dawn Kelly – Twain Harte, California
• Linda Ketchum - Salt Lake City, Utah
• Jeffrey and Carie Kitchell – Murphys, California
• Peggy Louis - Jackson, Mississippi
• Terry and Susan Moore – Sonora, California
• Nationwide Insurance Company - Portland, Oregon
• W. Garrett Oliver - Sonora, California
• Mr. and Mrs. Hung T. Pham
• Phyllis Sawyer - Sonora, California
• Shiree Segerstrom - Sonora, California
• Elizabeth Tackett - Greenwood, Mississippi
• Jay Talsania - Fogelsville, Pennsylvania
• James and Roberta Slauson - Gresham, Oregon
• Robert Wesley - Orlando, Florida

GALLERY REPRESENTATION
• Harbinger Gallery - Arnold, California
• TradeWinds - Sonora, California

ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT
• 2002 - Public Relations at Post Gallery in Sonora, California
• 2001-2 Newsletter for the Mother Lode Art Association in Sonora, California
• 1995 - Sales Associate at Saguaro Gallery in Park City, Utah
• 1994 - Sales Associate at C & C Indian Art in Park City, Utah
• 1990 - Sales Manager at the Northwest by Northwest Gallery in Cannon Beach, OR
Co-Chair of the Senior Art Show at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR
• 1988 - Internship with Fine Artist, Sigrid Burton, through Lewis and Clark College’s Art
` Internship Program in New York, New York

EDUCATION
• Bachelor of Arts Degree from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon
Major: Fine Art with an emphasis in painting

MEMBERSHIP
• Central Sierra Arts Council
• Mother Lode Art Association

BORN
• Portland, Oregon 1969