About the Artist
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Susan Jane Britsch is a fine art photographer. She has studied at the International Center of Photography in New York and in the Department of Art and Design at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of California, Berkeley and has had a long career as a researcher, a teacher of young children, and a teacher educator. Her work on the design of discourse visualizations recognizing the role of the visual in language learning has been published internationally. As a linguist and curriculum designer, she has collaborated with the Tachi Yokuts community in Central California to save the ancestral language of Tachi. She is Professor Emerita at Purdue University. Her photographs have been shown at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette and at The Arts Federation in Lafayette, Indiana. She received the third-place award at "Seeing Across Disciplines," a juried VR exhibition sponsored by the International Visual Literacy Association. She has lived in Berkeley, California and Aix-en-Provence, France. She currently resides in Indiana.