Suzanne Canali
Suzanne Canali, Director of Education at the Currier Museum of Art, brings many years of academic study and experiences as an artist to education and whole health programming to her work. Canali began her career as an art educator and program coordinator at John Stark Regional High School in Weare, NH. Challenged with a rare opportunity in higher education, she left a career she loved to have a greater impact in the field. As Chairperson of art educator preparation. Canali designed and inaugurated the New Hampshire Institute of Art’s first state-approved educator preparation program tied to dual degrees: a BFA and MA in Teaching Visual Art. The program became a model for educator preparation programs in the state. She was a long-standing member on New Hampshire Department of Education’s Council on Teacher Ed and a founding member of the New Hampshire Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) Network forging collaborative partnerships among higher education institutions that were once perceived to be competitors. Aside from her career, she is an artist with undergraduate degrees in Fine Art and Communications, a Master of Arts in the Humanities and Museum Studies from New York University, and pursued nearly all requirements but dissertation in a doctoral degree in education leadership. Art is at the center of her worldview believing it creates connections and possibilities, versus divisions and limitations, to live a happy, peaceful, and compassionate life.
Workshop: The Stories Nature Tells Us
A beautiful sunset. The bark on a tree. A mountain. The ocean. There are so many places the human experiences refuge in nature. This workshop is developed upon the belief that these occurrences are not a reaction to something beautiful. Rather, nature is trying to tell us something we need to hear. Participants in this workshop will learn the basic ingredients that make up our visual world, the techniques in drawing nature, and the interpretation of these visual ingredients to grow mindful of the lessons professed by nature.