Welcome to Gallery Uptown

Dr. Susan Kruszynski is an award-winning landscape art quilter and educator. Her art quilts range in sizes from 3”x5” to 40”x60”.

Feeding her artistic nature, Susan, at age 8, started experimenting with fabrics to produce colorful creations. She began landscape fiber art design with collage art quilts in 2014. A native of Michigan, her works are often inspired by the trees and woodlands along the Lake Michigan shoreline.

Susan currently divides her time between creating original collaged art quilt designs, teaching art quilting, marketing this fiber art at shows and exhibitions, running her Quilting Fabrics in Time business, and as a part-time literacy specialist at Muskegon Community College. Susan uses her 40+ years of K-College level teaching experiences and a PhD in Education to provide fun and easy learning experiences in classes and with on-line instruction.

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Awards

 2020 Michigan Education Association Art Acquisition and Purchase Exhibition Brochure

cover design Teal Trees

 2019 Michigan Education Association Art Acquisitions Purchase Exhibition, Kruszing Thru the

Seasons; 2018 Jurors' Choice Award and Purchase Award Teal Trees

 2019 Grand Haven Lighthouse Quilt Guild Show, 1 st Place, Teal Trees; 2018 and Resilience #1

 2017 Grand Rapids ArtPrize Nine (TOP 25), Reaching Upward

Galleries and Art Installations

 Gallery Uptown – Grand Haven

 Muskegon Museum of Art – Muskegon

 Newaygo County Council for the Arts, Artsplace – Fremont

 Art Installations in local church centers

Shows and Exhibitions

 ArtPrize – Grand Rapids

 ArtWalk – Grand Haven

 Highland Festival - Alma, Michigan

 Lakeshore Art Festival – Muskegon, Michigan

 Grand Rapids Downtown Market – GR, MI Detroit, Michigan

 White Lake Area Arts and Crafts Festival – Whitehall, Michigan

 Textile Takeover Art Show - Detroit, MI

 Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Fair – Kalamazoo

 Christmas at Wings - Kalamazoo, Michigan

 Market at SCA, Saugatuck, Michigan

 Numerous Holiday Shows

Featured Speaker and Presenter

 June Tailor, Inc. (products for the quilting, home decorating, craft, and

sewing markets)

 Trunk shows and class instruction for quilt guilds

 Instructor in quilt shops, community centers, art centers, and schools

Susan Kruszynski

Photo Gallery

Awards

Galleries and Art Installations

Shows and Exhibitions

Featured Speaker and Presenter