Susan Miiller (M.F.A.), New Paltz, N.Y. has been on the faculty at the State University of New York at New Paltz since 1999 in the fine and performing arts department and recently received a Teaching Excellence Award. Her other awards include an Orange Arts Grant, SUNY individual development and faculty development awards and an NYFA grant. She has been the artist in residence at Catskill Conservation Center, Weir Farm Trust and Vermont Studio Center and has participated in television interviews, lectures and seminars including Artists Talk on Art in New York. She earned her degree from UNT in drawing and painting and has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries throughout the U.S.