Suzanne Scott Constantine makes art as a practice of radical hope. As a mixed media, installation, and performance artist, her work addresses the concerns of those on the margins of society. Each piece of her art is a palimpsest, a history of itself within layers of codes — visible and invisible – constructed as a memory and a reminder to hope. Her work explores the threads binding us to each other—threads that persist even when frayed and thin.

Suzanne’s most recent exhibition and performance, “Awaiting Further Transformation,” was funded in part by an artist’s support grant from the North Carolina Arts Council. The 2022 exhibition included 32 wall works, 16 by Suzanne and 16 by her collaborator, Lynne Scott Constantine. The performance poetry event was created collaboratively by Suzanne and Lynne with six other coastal North Carolina artists, writers and musicians and was premiered at the exhibition’s opening. In 2021, Suzanne’s work was exhibited in the first post-Covid exhibition in the Rotating Art Show Series at Duck Town Hall, Duck, NC, and in a solo exhibit at Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nags Head, NC. The Duck Show, “Fault Lines/Through Line,” was a collaborative show with Lynne Scott Constantine that included both wall-works and a performance piece premiered at the opening reception. The Ghost Fleet solo show, “Hearts Rising,” included an interactive “Aspiration Tree” and a performance piece, “Rising,” both created with collaborator Lynne Scott Constantine.

Before moving to the Outer Banks in 2018, Suzanne was a studio artist at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, VA, and Professor of Integrative Studies at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, where she also served as Director of Women and Gender Studies. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College and an MA in English Literature from James Madison University. In 2021-2022, Suzanne received a North Carolina Arts Council Artist Support Grant to assist with the making of work for “Awaiting Further Transformation.”