Suzanne Rusconi Accetta has been drawing and painting professionally for over fifty years. . Her interest in figures prompted her to become a student of internationally famed portrait artist Everett Raymond Kinstler. Suzanne was featured in AMERICAN ARTIST MAGAZINE, THE COMPLETE COLORED PENCIL BOOK, NASHVILLE MAGAZINE, COLUMBUS MONTHLY, WATERCOLORPAINTING.COM, AMERICAN WATERCOLOR WEEKLY. Her biography is included in WHO’S WHO IN AMERICAN ART.
Her work has been seen and won awards in numerous international, national and regional exhibitions. She is in many private and corporate collections world wide. Suzanne has illustrated children’s books for Seedlings Publications as well as for an independent children’s book author.
Calvin J. Goodman wrote in the July, 1989 issue of AMERICAN ARTIST MAGAZINE, "Accetta tries to employ some narrative elements in every painting. She is a keen student of faces and human anatomy. As a result, her work shows great empathy for her subjects."
Suzanne is a busy lecturer, demonstrator, juror, and teacher. She taught drawing and painting for the theatre at Otterbein University as well as the Columbus Cultural Arts Center and Greenville Center for the Creative Arts.
Through her children’s interest in theatre, she found the principles in visual art easily apply to the theatre venue. She designed her first professional, and critically acclaimed set for Columbus Children’s Theatre’s production of The Secret Garden. She since has directed and designed numerous shows in central Ohio theatres.
Suzanne has a wonderfully supportive husband and family. She credits her faith in Jesus Christ for her gifts and purpose.
