Susan Arena is an artist based in Los Angeles. She is the Head of the Art Department at Crossroads Elementary School in Santa Monica.
Susan was born in a small town by the ocean in Massachusetts, right next to Salem, the “witch city.” She studied at the New York Studio School and earned an MFA in Painting from Yale School of Art. Susan’s work has always focused on the human figure and its endless possibilities for expression. Her work has also been shaped by travel to Egypt, India, and Mexico, and her love of the folk art of these cultures.
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