Susan Futterman
Biography
Susan Futterman has long participated in the Pasadena Arts and Crafts
community with both Pasadena Heritage and the Gamble House. Several
years ago she became captivated with the work of Pasadena printmaker
Frances Gearhart. That led to her co-curating the exhibition, Behold the
Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart, and editing the catalogue
by the same name. While researching Gearhart, she discovered an
unfinished, unpublished children’s book, Let’s Play by the Gearharts, which
she brought to life and light through The Book Club of California.
In summer of 2009 she received a Haynes Foundation Research Grant to explore the
women of the Arroyo Culture. Andre Chaves and Susan published their own
edition of The Yellow Wallpaper by Frances Perkins Gilman.
For American Bungalow she has written three articles: “Pioneer
Printmakers: Four Women Visionaries of the American Arts and Crafts
Era”, “Kindred Spirts: Friendships forged around Passions for Arts and
Crafts Ideals,” “Gustave Bauman’s America.” While living in Italy, her travels became the
basis of the Style 1900 article“The Pursuit of Liberty: In Search of Italy’s Art Nouveau.”
She curated a second curated ground breaking exhibit at Pasadena Museum of
California encompassing all the California work of Gustave Bauman with
the accompanying brochure “Gustave Bauman in California.”
Currently she is working another Pasadena artist Harold
Lukens Doolittle (1883-1974) who specialized in aquatints and
etchings to capture the California landscape. She has been honored
to speak at the Grove Park Arts and Crafts Conference on two
occasions and has received a Grove Park research grants.