Susan Werner


Disciplines: Visual Arts – photography
Disciplines: Visual Arts – photography
Based in Providence, RI
Residencies: 1992

Susan Werner has been a photographer since 1980, and a still life photographer working with both found and constructed objects since 1989. She has exhibited in Rhode Island at the Wheeler Gallery (Providence), the Hera Gallery (Wakefield), the H. White Gallery (Barrington), and at the Bristol Art Museum. Exhibitions at other venues include The Print Center in Philadelphia, PA, and abroad in Rome, Italy. During the years Werner lived in Rome, she taught photography for Temple University Rome, and for Cornell University’s Program in Rome, and was a visiting artist for the Rhode Island School of Design’s European Honors Program. In 2004 she received a Merit Award from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

Studios

Putnam

Susan Werner worked in the Putnam studio.

Originally known simply as Graphics Studio, this building was converted to its current use between 1972 and 1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation. Before this transformation, the building served as both a powerhouse and pump house for the property. Well water was drawn from a large cistern and…

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