contact

Email: gallery@lifecenter.net

Phone: Life Center  (509)327-4422

Address: 1202 N. Government Way, Spokane WA 99224

Susan Cowger, Director of Clearstory Gallery: 509-499-2678

Gallery Director: Susan Cowger

Bio: Susan Cowger graduated with a BA in fine arts in 1977 and received her MFA in creative writing with a secondary emphasis in art in 1997.  Her award-winning sculpture, paintings, etchings, and mixed media art have been commissioned into many personal and corporate collections nationwide.  Her art has also been featured in numerous public and private gallery showings.  Susan has worked as an artist-in-residence in public schools and has taught at the Spokane Art School and in the Spokane Public School system.  Since receiving her advanced degree, writing has taken over much of her creative efforts.  A former associate editor at Eastern Washington University Press and co-founder and senior editor of Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art and Faith, Susan writes prose and poetry.  Her writing has appeared in publications such as Calyx, Thema, Healing Muse, Mars Hill Review, and Pontoon: An Anthology of Washington State Poets, as well as the anthology Milk Fever which also featured her artwork on the cover.  Her latest work, “Scarab Hiding,” a chapbook by Susan, explores living, dying, and the taboo called grief (Finishing Line Press 2006).