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Susan Budge is an American sculptor working in clay and bronze with influences from Biomorphism and Surrealism. Budge holds a BFA from Texas Tech University, MA from University of Houston Clear Lake, MFA from University of Texas at San Antonio.
Budge’s work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, the Fuller Craft Museum, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the San Angelo Museum of Art, the Art Museum at Northern Arizona State University, the Art Museum of South Texas, the New Orleans Museum of Art. Her work has been in hundreds of exhibitions and is in private collections in the United Kingdom, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Greece, the United States, and Mexico.
Budge has received numerous public commissions, residencies, and awards, including, Artist of the Year for the Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts in 2004, and finalist for Texas State Artist for the Texas Legislature and Texas Commission for the Arts in 2018.
Her teaching career began with Artist in Education Grants from the Texas Commission on the Arts in 1988. She was the Department Head of Ceramics at San Antonio College as a tenured professor. Prior to her 2015 retirement, she earned a NISOD excellence in teaching award and established an endowed ceramics scholarship fund. Budge maintains an active studio practice at her rural studio near Houston.
Budge’s work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, the Fuller Craft Museum, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the San Angelo Museum of Art, the Art Museum at Northern Arizona State University, the Art Museum of South Texas, the New Orleans Museum of Art. Her work has been in hundreds of exhibitions and is in private collections in the United Kingdom, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Greece, the United States, and Mexico.
Budge has received numerous public commissions, residencies, and awards, including, Artist of the Year for the Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts in 2004, and finalist for Texas State Artist for the Texas Legislature and Texas Commission for the Arts in 2018.
Her teaching career began with Artist in Education Grants from the Texas Commission on the Arts in 1988. She was the Department Head of Ceramics at San Antonio College as a tenured professor. Prior to her 2015 retirement, she earned a NISOD excellence in teaching award and established an endowed ceramics scholarship fund. Budge maintains an active studio practice at her rural studio near Houston.
Octavio Quintanilla is the author of the poetry collections, If I Go Missing (Slough Press, 2014), The Book of Wounded Sparrows (Texas Review Press, 2024), which has been longlisted for the National Book Award, and Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours, winner of the 2024 Ambroggio Prize given by the Academy of American Poets, forthcoming from the University of Arizona Press. Octavio is the founder and director of the literature & arts festival, VersoFrontera, publisher of Alabrava Press, and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio, TX. His Frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely, including in the Mexican Cultural Institute in San Antonio, El Paso Museum of Art, Presa House Gallery, and the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University.
“My work is often mixed-genre and multidisciplinary, exploring the dynamics of belonging/not belonging in U.S./Mexico (and elsewhere). I explore oppositional dynamics such as cultural loss/assimilation, memory/fragmentation, migration/homeland, and often through the lens of poetics: visual poetry, video poetry, found objects, and text. Through visual abstraction, I investigate and document what it means to navigate geographic, cultural, and linguistic loss (and reacquisition).”
“My work is often mixed-genre and multidisciplinary, exploring the dynamics of belonging/not belonging in U.S./Mexico (and elsewhere). I explore oppositional dynamics such as cultural loss/assimilation, memory/fragmentation, migration/homeland, and often through the lens of poetics: visual poetry, video poetry, found objects, and text. Through visual abstraction, I investigate and document what it means to navigate geographic, cultural, and linguistic loss (and reacquisition).”