Susan Benarcik is a sculptor and surface designer based in Wilmington, DE. Her work has been exhibited across the country in private collections, sculpture parks and museums such as the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, and the DCCA. The artist is the recipient of a 2009 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, and the 2006 E. Avery Draper Award for Outstanding Craft Exhibition at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art Wilmington, DE.

The artist’s concern for the environment is made evident as she takes elemental forms of the natural world into her studio and carefully transforms them by stacking, stringing, layering, knotting, and weaving them into contemplative sculpture for public and private spaces. These interior and exterior compositions become part of our daily cognitive experience, and bring equilibrium to our senses

The artist has a Master’s degree in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art with highest distinction from Rosemont College. Benarcik was an apprentice at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and most recently a CFEVA fellow. She continues to design and install sculptural compositions while teaching creativity workshops in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New York. Works can be found on line at inliquid.org, and on the artist’s website; susanbenarcik.com