About the Artist
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Susan Jane Britsch is a fine art photographer / mixed media artist. 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. 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 for many years with the Tachi Yokuts community in Central California to document and revitalize the ancestral language of Tachi. Her photographs have been shown at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, at The Arts Federation in Lafayette, Indiana, and at Purdue University. She received the third-place award at "Seeing Across Disciplines," a juried international exhibition sponsored by the International Visual Literacy Association. She has lived in Berkeley, California and in Aix-en-Provence, France. She currently resides in Indiana.