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Updated 8/29/2024

Susan Rosano

  • V

    VT

Institution/Business Type: Artist / Creative (Individual)


NEW WEBSITE: www.WisdomInOurCommunity.com. I am a Master Teaching Artist and a Registered Expressive Arts Consultant and Educator for over twenty years, bringing visual and expressive arts projects to senior citizens, hospice patients and their families, schools, libraries, hospitals, museums and other venues for people of all ages, from pre-k to senior citizens. In 2021 I trained to be a Vermont Life Time Arts Teaching Artist and in the same year was awarded a National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellowship.  My fellowship project is called "Wisdom In Our Community" which transforms negative ideas about aging in our culture by documenting the personal histories of senior citizens through visual arts and written storytelling. For the past two years, I have participated in the creation of projects for the Central Vermont Council on Aging's Creative Care Kit. This program is designed to bring arts and crafts projects to over 200 homebound senior citizens in the Central Vermont area.

A fun music program I bring to your community is a five-piece ukulele band called The Green Mountain Strummers. My group plays music from the "Tin Pan Alley" era, which is the early 1900's to the late 1940's. We travel with music lyric books for audiences to use, as we are a sing-along band.

I have a Masters Degree from Wesleyan University in Fine Arts. I create my own original projects to fit the need of the venue or group. My projects consist of personal history arts projects that include The Life Path Project (a map of a person's life), Collage Your Kin projects, Personal History Poems, Murals about Climate Change painted on walls, backer boards or recycled oil drums, Mosaic Arts using pre-made ceramic or stained glass tiles, Doodle Art, Mask Making, Woodland Fairy & Elf Environments, and much more.

I am a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, Consultant and Educator through the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association. I have over twenty years of experience working with healing arts and bringing legacy projects to terminally ill patients in hospice progarms. In the past, I have worked at St. Francis Hospital's Integrative Medicine Dept., Hartford, CT, as an expressive arts specialist and pastoral counselor. I have worked as an expressive arts therapist at the Kennedy Center, VSA Arts in Connecticut, Masonicare Hospice and many other venues such as schools, hospitals, and programs for people with developmental disabilities.

Find Me

Susan Rosano (She/Her)
Job Title: Master Teaching Artist/Artist in Healthcare
Phone: 802-254-6201
TTY Phone: 860-301-9033
Address:
82 Country Drive
Brattleboro, VT 05301

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About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

2014

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

2014

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Visual/Crafts - General

Additional Disciplines:

  • Multi-Disciplinary

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Arts for Social Change / Creative Activism
  • Arts and Health
  • Cultural Preservation
  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Public Art Projects (In Free, Public Spaces)
  • Writing Services
  • Arts Instruction / Lessons
  • Curriculum Development
  • Residency - In School
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
  • Consulting - Curatorial Services
  • Professional Development / Training
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
  • Residency - Community
  • Community Arts
  • Exhibitions
  • Art Sales
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 25

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Businesses
  • Elders
  • Families
  • General Public
  • Nonprofits
  • People with Disabilities
  • School Groups
  • Teens
  • Youth-At-Risk
  • Artists
  • Rural Populations
  • Veteran/Active Duty Military Personnel

Languages Available:

  • English

Geographic Reach:

  • Town / City
  • County
  • Multi-County Region
  • State
  • Multi-State Region
  • National

Accessibility of Services

Accessibility of Services:

  • Access accommodations for people who use a wheelchair and have limited mobility
  • Access accommodations for people who are blind, partially sighted, and have low vision
  • Access accommodations for people who are Deaf and hard-of-hearing
  • Accessible website and/or multimedia for people with sensory disabilities

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I Have Worked With

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • Lifetime Arts, Vermont
  • National Arts Strategies New England Creative Community Fellowship
  • Arts for Learning Connecticut
  • Creative Ground

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • Lifetime Arts, Vermont
  • National Arts Strategies New England Creative Community Fellowship
  • Arts for Learning Connecticut
  • Creative Ground

Awards

Awards:

  • Guilford Arts Award
  • D'Amato Award for Graduate Studies
  • National Arts Strategies New England Creative Community Fellowship

Education

Education:

  • Masters Degree in Fine Art, Wesleyan University

Special Designations

Designated Arts Community:

  • Vermont Creative Zone Member - Southern Vermont Creative Zone

Artist Info

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Corporate Business
  • Healthcare Facility
  • Private Studio
  • School / University
  • Virtual / Remote

Ages Served:

  • Pre-Kindergarten-age
  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - Communications
  • Arts Integration - English Language / Literacy
  • Arts Integration - Health
  • Arts Integration - History and Social Science
  • Arts Integration - Mathematics
  • Arts Integration - Science / Technology / Engineering
  • Visual/Crafts
  • Music

Certifications and Training:

  • Masters Degree from Wesleyan University in Fine Art
  • Registered Expressive Arts Consultant and Educator
  • Certified Pastoral Counselor

Fee range:

$100 - $250

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Corporate Business
  • Healthcare Facility
  • Private Studio
  • School / University
  • Virtual / Remote

Ages Served:

  • Pre-Kindergarten-age
  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - Communications
  • Arts Integration - English Language / Literacy
  • Arts Integration - Health
  • Arts Integration - History and Social Science
  • Arts Integration - Mathematics
  • Arts Integration - Science / Technology / Engineering
  • Visual/Crafts
  • Music

Certifications and Training:

  • Masters Degree from Wesleyan University in Fine Art
  • Registered Expressive Arts Consultant and Educator
  • Certified Pastoral Counselor

Fee range:

$100 - $250

State Arts Agency Roster Artist

  • Vermont Teaching Artist Roster
  • New Hampshire Arts in Health, Health & Healing Roster

Touring Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • Electricity for mics and speakers

Fee Range:

Tin Pan Alley Sing-along: $250.00

State of Residence:

Vermont

Minimum Number of Performers:

4

Maximum Number of Performers:

5