seated scout on rocks, cactus near base, 25" tall plus custom wood base with rotating mechanism, well listed artist....Biography from the Archives of askART Spending her childhood in southern California, Susan Kliewer showed early art talent which was encouraged by her family. For eight years, she prepared sculpture for bronze casting in a foundry for well-known Arizona sculptors John Hampton, Joe Beeler, and Buck McCain. In 1988, she decided to do her own sculpting, and in 1991 won the People's Choice Award at the juried National Sculpture Walk in Sedona, Arizona. A key mentor has been Ken Ottinger at the Sedona Art Center, and she also took anatomy classes at Northern Arizona State University. Her subjects are Navajo people, many whom have become close friends.Biography from Mark Sublette Medicine Man GallerySusan Kliewer, a native of California, has lived in Arizona for nearly 30 years, five of them at Marble Canyon Trading Post in a remote area of Northern Arizona near the Colorado River.Dreams of horses, deserts, canyons, rivers and sunsets have been her constant companions since she was a child. A painter since the age of 10, she turned to sculpting in 1987 after working in an art casting foundry for 10 years.Susan won a competition to create a monument of Sedona Schnebly. The ten-foot tall bronze figure was installed in front of the Sedona Library in 1994. Her life-size fountain portraying the Sinagua people and a fountain of a Hopi Water Maiden are also to be found in Sedona."My work," she says, "aims to show the common thread that underlies all human experience, and which I hope brings us to a greater understanding between all peoples."She often uses her Navajo friends and grandchildren as models to capture that special intimacy which is the hallmark of her work. Her depiction of the ways of Native Americans in everyday life, from the past as well as the present, has attracted major collectors from al over the world.Awards / Collections1990 - Enlarged and sculpted Borglum's "Cowboy at Rest" monument for the city of Prescott, Arizona.1991 - Won People's Choice Award for Sedona Sculpture Walk. Sculpture: "Navajo Sport."1993 - Juror's Award, Sedona Sculpture Walk for sculpture "The Gift."1992-1994 - Sculpted "Sedona Schnebly" for City of Sedona, a competition sponsored by the Red Rock Arts Council. "Sedona Schnebly" stands 10 feet high, and is installed in front of the Sedona Library.2001 - Won the Olaf Wieghorst Award at the 32nd annual Contemporary Western Art Show and Sale, held at the Mountain Oyster Club in Tucson, Arizona for sculpture "Fancy Shawl Dancer."2007 - Governor's Choice Award, Cowgirl Up! Art from the Other Half of the West, Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg, AZ