Susie Frazier | |
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| Born | Susan Lakas Frazier |
| Known for | Environmental Art, |
| Spouse | formerly Tim Mueller 2000-2018 |
| Website | Susie Frazier http://www.susiefrazier.com |
Susie Frazier is an American artist who designs by integrating natural materials and organic patterns into her work. [1] [2] Her creations are characterized by repeating, irregular contours and slight imperfections in the materials. [3]
Frazier was born August in Inglewood, California, and graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1993, with a BA in Communications. [4] In 1992 she moved to Cleveland, Ohio. She was a German Marshall Fund fellow. [4]
In 2007, she was selected to design integrated public art elements of a $3.5 million streetscape in Cleveland's Gordon Square Arts District, which was completed in 2009. [5] and in 2013, Frazier was selected to design a terrazzo floor pattern for a newly-constructed RTA Rapid Transit station in Cleveland's Little Italy neighborhood. [6]
In 2003, she founded a downtown Cleveland marketing program called "Sparx in the City", [7] [8] which earned the City of Cleveland a City Livability Award by the U.S. Conference of Mayors in 2005. [9] In 2005 Frazier turned the program over to the Downtown Cleveland Alliance, and it operates today under the name Sparx City Hop. [10]
Since 2016 she has been the brand ambassador for Mont Surfaces. [11]
In 2018, Frazier was awarded a Regional Emmy as producer of a TV pilot she starred in called Movers & Makers With Susie Frazier. [12]
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