Susan L. Throckmorton is a resident of Exeter, NH, and Warsaw, Poland, where she lives for part of the year. Before that she received a BA in history from Mt. Holyoke College, an MA in Education from Michigan State University, and an MLS in Library Science from SUNY, Albany. She has worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer in India, the Registrar and Curator of Education at the Bennington Museum in Bennington, VT and as a teacher and/or librarian in schools in Poland, India, Pakistan, the former Yugoslavia, Finland, Indonesia, and in a one-room schoolhouse in northern Vermont. She has also given workshops and lectures about Polish papercutting in Poland, the U.S.A., and Germany.
Susan is a self-taught paper artist and has been cutting paper for 35 years. She has exhibited her papercutting work in Poland, Germany, Holland, China, and the U.S.A. She uses both a pair of surgical scissors and a small knife to cut her pictures usually from one piece of black paper but also from colored and painted papers. Her work is in the permanent collection of museums in Poland, Germany, China, and the U.S. and in the private collections of people throughout the world. Her papercuttings have also won awards and have been published in magazines and books. In 2007 she was acknowledged an “International Distinguished Paper-Cutting Arts Master” in China.
She is an active member of the Guild of American Papercutting where she has served on its Board and as Co-Editor of its 3 publications. Her own publications which are illustrated with her papercuttings.
