She’s curated more than 100 exhibitions focused in the area of Post-War, Contemporary, and Emerging Art, plus attended special exhibitions and viewed collection holdings at nearly a thousand institutions across the world. Her collections management expertise covers a wide spectrum, from contemporary art and sculpture to cultural artifacts and scientific specimens. Working with the Macon Film Festival, she incubated the country’s first international artistic immersive full dome film festival, which features the most innovative work from across the world each year. The project has allowed the MAS to introduce hundreds of immersive films by new collectives, minority and female directors plus students and emerging multimedia professionals.

Before joining the Museum, Susan served as the Vice President of Institutional Advancement at Wesleyan College, where she provided leadership and strategic direction for the offices of development, alumnae relations, and marketing communications. In this role, she directed a $20 million comprehensive campaign and the Annual Fund, among other fundraising programs – including an adopt-a-painting program designed to restore dozens of works in Wesleyan’s collection of post-war and contemporary paintings.

In 2025, Susan retired from the MAS to devote her full attention to fine art appraising, special projects, and consulting. She served several years as a grant panelist for the Georgia Council for the Arts and as an Accreditation Peer Reviewer with the American Alliance of Museums. She has received numerous awards and honors recognizing her service to the community. She is the past President of the Macon Rotary Club and Visit Macon Board of Directors, and has been involved in a number of regional strategic planning initiatives including co-chairing the Macon Cultural Plan. She serves on the Board of Trustees for Middle Georgia State University. Other board service has included Piedmont/Coliseum Health System, Macon Film Festival, Cherry Blossom Festival, Friends of Macon Music, and Wesleyan’s Confucius Institute, among others. She is a graduate of the University of Georgia but also studied studio art and art history at Wesleyan College.

Susan has received a number of national fellowships in the area of art and technology, digital leadership, and strategic planning through the Association of Art Museum Curators Foundation and Knight Foundation, plus completed specialized professional coursework through Christie’s in the area of contemporary art theory and global markets. She completed the Comprehensive Appraisal Studies Program through the Appraisers Association of America. She serves as an instructor with the Mercer University School of Medicine’s Department of Bioethics & Medical Humanities, piloting a statewide “visual literacy” program with three major museums; and with Wesleyan’s Academy for Lifelong Learning, as well as a regional lecturer on a variety of art and art history topics.