Join us on Thursday, May 2nd for “Reading Surrealism: The Life and Work of Leonora Carrington” with Susan Leaventon, the first talk from the series ART AS HEALING, expanding on the topics of Carol Jazzar’s All (W-hole) of Me, healing through Art, the art of deconstructing and recreating oneself.
Susan Leaventon holds MA degrees in English literature and Special Education from Temple University, and studied at the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis. Following a career as an English teacher at Ransom Everglades School, Susan became an English instructor at Miami Dade College and University of Miami, and the founding director of the Academic Center, a program for adolescents with learning differences at Miami Country Day School. In addition, she served as a facilitator for Schools Attuned, a national teacher training program. Susan has been a docent at the Perez Art Museum Miami since 2016 and is a member of several National Docent Symposium study groups, where she has given presentations on women artists from the 20th Century such as Florine Stettheimer and Leonora Carrington.
