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Sue Allen has been designing and printing for many years. Her cards and original limited-edition screenprints are distinctive and colorful, inspired by tradition, nature and imagination. Since receiving a Bachelor of Architecture degree from The Cooper Union in New York City, printmaking has been her main focus and livelihood. Artistic directions range from nature and organic order to abstraction and geometry, and veers repeatedly toward the Japanese aesthetic and beauty. Recent studies in the book arts has led to a new passion, one that brings her back to a design and construction format.

Sue combines her two main mediums in a recent project—SUITE SIXTEEN, a series of 16 screenprints of lanterns in the Portland Japanese Garden, 4 in each season, contained in 4 byobu folding screens and housed in a shihu chitsu Japanese four-sided case. Each of the screenprints is available separately, but the beautiful boxed set is in a limited-edition of 10.

Finished in 2007 –   AROUND MOUNT HOOD: 12 MONTHS - 12 DIRECTIONS, is her series of 12 screenprints showing the sides and seasons of Mount Hood. The inaugural exhibit at the Mount Hood Cultural Center and Museum in Government Camp began in 2006, and it has been on exhibit since, in the Portland area and beyond. For this project, she also received a grant from the Clackamas County Cultural Coalition and the Oregon Cultural Trust.

Sue, and her twin sister Carol, grew up in Queens, New York and spent happy childhood summers at camp in New Hampshire. After graduating from college, she worked in New York City and Stowe, Vermont before moving to Oregon in 1975. She has lived in Brightwood, in the foothills of Mount Hood, since 1981, where she enjoys nature in all her seasons, and can be creative and productive. Sue's work is shown in many shops and galleries in Oregon and beyond, and she exhibits extensively and has won many awards.

In addition to her studio artwork, Sue has worked part-time since 2005 for the Clackamas County Arts Alliance as their Exhibit Coordinator/ Art Preparator. Her main duties are to coordinate, design and hang art exhibits in public spaces within the county. There are four galleries in the Public Services Building in Oregon City, a mezzanine gallery at the Sunnybrook Service Center in Clackamas, a couple of corridor galleries at Providence Milwaukie Hospital in Milwaukie, among others.

And, every Wednesday morning at the Hoodland Senior Center in Zig Zag, Sue teaches a low-key yoga class. Yoga has been in her life since 1970, when she took her first class in New York City. Over the years she has studied with many teachers and only came to teach herself a few years ago. She loves sharing with others what she enjoys so much.

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