www.susifranco.com

Susi Franco, inspired by Seneca 2's message, created this limited-edition print for our fund-raising.  The print is available for purchase for $25.00 + $5.00 shipping. To purchase, leave your mailing address in the feedback section. A pay pal button is coming soon.

After a severe back injury left her disabled from her nursing career, Susi Franco began painting as a form of pain relief.  Over an eight year period, it has serendipitously become a new career. Susi’s work has earned her three international awards and her paintings currentlyhang in four countries.  In Oct 09 one of her award-winning paintings was shipped from the Host Gallery in Granada Spain to Antonio Gualda Museum in Mexico.  Her work was selected for inclusion in the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” television show in 2008.  She is represented by Royal Gallery of Providence, RI and Galerie Bel Age in the Hamptons.  She maintains a strong internet presence in multiple online galleries and two web sites of her work.  Susi is a nationally published author, and combines that with her art work whenever possible.  Her non fiction book about her nursing career, Angels with Stethoscopes, has received moving reviews at amazon.com.  She is currently working on a re-design of the North End Café (formerly the Classic Restaurant, North Providence RI) where an extensive gallery of her work will be on display.  She is also a participant of LandfillArt.org, which recycles automobile hubcaps into original art; the exhibit will be touring the US in the near future.   She and her artwork and writing have been the subject of multiple RI newspaper and magazine features as well as TV shows.  Cable TV host, Marie Younkin-Waldman conferred Susi the “Inspirational Woman Award” in 2007, and the show (Tea with Marie, 12-07) Susi appeared on and won a PEG award, cable tv’s highest honor.  PBS has featured Susi and her work on their annual televised Art Auction since 2005.  In October 2009, her work was selected as one of 25 Featured RI artists for the prestigious Fine Furnishings Home Show held in Providence, RI.       She is committed to making “Green Art” and maintains a studio in her sea side home where she paints and writes, silversmiths one-of–a-kind gemstone and .925 jewelry; she also creates unleaded stained glass “paintings” on salvaged windows and uses re-purposed/salvaged furniture to create distinctive hand-painted unique objet d’art.