Education

B.F.A. (Art) 1980, M.F.A. (Painting) 1984, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Professional Employment

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, watercolor, art history, design, drawing and art elements, 1984-2016

Publications

Illustrated cover for Natural Bridge: A Journal for Contemporary Literature,
University of Missouri, Spring 2005
Illustrated cover for Refuge at DeSoto Bend, a book of poetry by Eamonn Wall, Salmon Publishing, 2004
Adagio II: Platte River, (featured as their poster) The Plains and Humanities Alliance of
University of Nebraska-Lincoln for “The Regionalism and Humanities National Conference,” 2003
Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie by Joni L. Kinsey, 1996
Cover painting, The Platte River, An Atlas of the Big Bend Region, 1993
1989 Calendar, Lincoln Arts Council
The Artist’s Magazine, August, 1988
Impact, The Art of Nebraska Women, 1988

Awards and Honors

Alumni Achievement Award in Art, Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2015
“Beet Factory: Fort Morgan,” Inaugural Exhibition at Clarinda Carnegie Art Museum,
Clarinda, Iowa, November 2014
“Nebraska Quietiem, on loan from Museum of Nebraska Art-Kearney:
to be featured at the US Consul General’s Residence, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2002-2005
Cash Award “Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri, 2003
Van Vechten-Lineberry Award, Taos National Honors Exhibit, 1999
Van Vechten-Lineberry Award for Best Mixed Media, The Taos National Exhibition of American Watercolor IV, Van Vechten-Lineberry Taos Art Museum, Taos, New Mexico, 1998
National Watercolor Society 72nd Annual Traveling Exhibition, 1993
The Muckenthaler Cultural Center Award, 70th Annual Exhibition, The National Watercolor Society, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, California, 1990
Nebraska Art Collection, The Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska, 1989
Watercolor U.S.A. Patron Purchase Award, 1989
Watercolor U.S.A. Springfield Art Museum Purchase Award and catalog cover, Springfield, Missouri, 1988 Mid-America Arts Alliance and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award in Painting, 1986 Watercolor U.S.A. National Traveling Exhibition, 1984-1986
Charter Member of Watercolor U.S.A. Honor Society
(Membership limited to awarded winners and jurors of Watercolor U.S.A.), 1985
First Place, Watercolor, Art Quest ’85, University Art Museum of California State University, Long Beach, California, 1985
“Nebraska Quietiem,” a watercolor was chosen by the Nebraska Law College for photo reproduction and distribution to the Alumni and Contributors, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1985
Vreeland Award, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1984
Patron Purchase Awards, Watercolor U.S.A., Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri, 1983 Cash Award, Watercolor U.S.A., Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri, 1982
Purchase Awards, Epply Competitive Art Exhibition, University of Nebraska-Omaha,
Omaha, Nebraska, 1982
Purchase Award, ANAC “Reflections 81,” Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska, 1981
Cooper Foundation Purchase Award, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1980
Faulkner Award, University of Nebraska Senior Show, Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1980

Solo Exhibits

Susan Puelz Solo Show, October 2027, Create 48, 2706 N. 48th, Lincoln, Nebraska
Susan Puelz Solo 2024, Anderson O’Brien Fine Art, 1502 Cumming St., Omaha, Nebraska, aobfineart.com Susan Puelz 2021 Studio Show Lincoln Nebraska, 2021
Susan PUELZ 2019 Studio Show Lincoln Nebraska, 2019
Kiechel Fine Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, April-May 2015
“Susan Puelz, Solo,” Kiechel Fine Art, Assurity Life Insurance Co. Lincoln, Nebraska, 2013
“Color My World 2012,” Lauritzen Gardens, Omaha, Nebraska, 2012
“Chasing Rainbows 2010,” Anderson O’Brien Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska, 2010
Great Plains Art Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2006
Solo Show featuring Susan Puelz, Anderson O’Brien Fine Art, Omaha, Nebraska 2006
Solo Show featuring Susan Puelz, Norfolk Arts Center, Norfolk, Nebraska, 2004
Solo Show featuring Susan Puelz, Security Financial Life Insurance Company, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2002 “Susan Puelz In Color,” Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2002
“Susan Puelz, Pathways,” Columbus Art Gallery, Columbus, Nebraska, 1996
“Anderson O’Brien Gallery Presents Susan Puelz,” Anderson O’Brien Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska, 1995 “Susan Puelz, Recent Paintings,” The Source Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, 1994, 2001
Walnut Street Gallery, Springfield, Missouri, 1993
“Susan Puelz: Recent Work,” Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, Michigan, 1992
“Susan Puelz: Images on Paper,” Marxhausen Gallery, Concordia College, Seward, Nebraska, 1991
“Midland Segments: Paintings by Susan Puelz,” Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1991
Fremont Art Association Gallery, Fremont, Nebraska, 1991
Wayne State College, Wayne, Nebraska, 1990
Vivian Kiechel Fine Arts, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1990
“Chasing Rainbows, The Watercolors of Susan Puelz,” The Museum of Nebraska Art,
Kearney, Nebraska, 1990
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, 1989
“Susan Puelz, Recent Paintings,” Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1986

National and Regional Competitive Juried Exhibits

2026 Watercolor USA Competitive exhibition, Spiva Center For The Arts, Joplin, Missouri, 2026 2003 Watercolor USA Competitive exhibition, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri, 2003 “Spacious Skys, Pastoral Places,” Exhibition features paintings, photographs at the
Great Plains Art Collection’s Christlieb, Gallery, University or Nebraska-Lincoln, 2001
1998 River Market Regional Exhibition, Kansas City Artist Coalition, Kansas City, Missouri, 1998
Taos National Exhibition of American Watercolor IV, Van Vechten-Lineberry
Taos Art Museum, Taos, New Mexico, 1998
“52nd Annual Juried Exhibition,” Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa, 1994
72nd Annual Exhibition, The National Watercolor Society, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, California, 1992
Watercolor U.S.A., Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri,
1982, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994
70th Annual Exhibition, The National Watercolor Society,
Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, California, 1990
“Pastels/Small Works Show,” Windham Art Gallery, Brattleboro, Vermont, Wolf Kahn Juror, 1990 49th Annual Juried Competition, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa, 1990
Kansas Watercolor Society 5-State Exhibition, Wichita, Kansas, 1989
Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition, Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado, 1986
“Positive Negative II,” Slocumb Gallery, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, Lisa Dennison, Assistant Curator of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Juror, 1986
Art Quest ‘85, Los Angeles, California, 1985
International Art Competition, Los Angeles, California, 1984
“Mid Four Annual Juried Art Exhibition,” Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, 1983

Group Invitational Exhibits

“Fifty Gifts for Fifty Years” Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2013
Watercolor USA Honor Society Invitational Exhibition, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri, 2012 Contemporary Women Masters of the MONA Collection, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska, 2012 “Spirit: A Celebration of Art in the Heartland 2010,” Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska, 2010
“Watercolor Honor Society Invitational Exhibition,” Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, 2009 The Preston Contemporary Art Center Opening Exhibit, Mesilla, New Mexico, July 2008
2008 Watercolor USA Honor Society 10th Invitational Exhibit,
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri, April 2008
2003 Watercolor USA Exhibition, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri, 2003
Susan Puelz, Thomas H. Majeski, Karen Kunc, Anderson
O’Brien Fine Art Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska, 2002
“Spacious Skys, Pastoral Places,” paintings and photographs,
The Great Plains Art Collection’s Christlieb Gallery, UNL, 2001
“Decades Exhibition,” Eisentrager/Howard Gallery, Richards Hall, UNL, 2001
“Wind and Water” Paintings by Susan Puelz, Karen Dienstbier, Karen Kunz, and Christina McPhee, Center for Great Plains Studies Art Collection, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1999
Taos National Watercolor Honors Exhibition (Honors artists who have won awards in previous Taos National Exhibitions of American Watercolor) Van Vechten-Lineberry Art Museum, Taos, New Mexico, 1999
“American Landscape” The Source Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, 1998
“1997 Watercolor U.S.A. Honor Society 6th Bicentennial Exhibition,”
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri, 1997
“Masters at Mona: The Decade Exhibition at the Museum of Nebraska Art,” Kearney, Nebraska, 1996
“Watercolor Painters Whose Subject is Landscape,” Walnut Street Gallery, Springfield, Missouri, 1996
“Watercolor U.S.A. Honor Society Fifth Biennial Exhibition,” Gatlinburg, Tennessee, 1995
“Living Artists of Nebraska,” Society of Polish Art Photographers, Warsaw, Poland, 1995
Part Time Faculty Exhibition, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1995
“Boxes: Artists Respond to the Object,” Department of Art & Art History,
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1994
“Nebraska Women in the Arts, A Selected Survey,” Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska, 1994
“Haymarket Art Gallery 25th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition,” Lincoln, Nebraska, 1994
“From The Beginning: The Story of the Nebraska Art Collection,”
Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska, 1994
“Three Women Artists,” The Source, Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, 1992
“100 Years of Nebraska Women Artists, 1890-1990,” Traveling Exhibition from Museum of Nebraska Art, Center For Great Plains Art Collection, Love Library,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1992
Watercolor U.S.A. Honor Society, Third Biennial Exhibition, Springfield, Missouri, 1991
“Susan Puelz and Karen Kunc,” Stocksdale Gallery of Art, William Jewel College, Liberty, Missouri, 1990 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Art Faculty Exhibition, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, 1989
“Prairie Landscapes,” an exhibition of Nebraska Landscape Artists, Spiva Art Center, Joplin, Missouri, 1989 “On Land, On Sea, & In the Air,” Joy Horwich Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 1989
“State of the Art-1989,” First Parkland College National Watercolor Exhibition, Champaign, Illinois, 1989
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Faculty Exchange Exhibition,
Lincolnshire College of Art, Lincolnshire, England, 1988
“Paintings in the Midwest,” (three Mid-American Arts Alliance winners)
Kansas City Artists’ Coalition, Kansas City, Missouri, 1987
“Mid America Images Exhibition,” Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas, 1987
“Nine from the Heartland,” 1708 E. Main Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, 1987
“Watercolor U.S.A. Honor Society Exhibition,” Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri, 1987
Faculty Exhibition, Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1985-present
University of Nebraska Art Faculty Touring Exhibition, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990
“Midwest Landscape as Subject and Symbol,” featuring Susan Puelz, Keith Jacobshagen, David Melby and Lynn Manos Hubor, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa, 1985

Related Professional Experience

MEDICI, Board Member and Chairman of the Artist Committee, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2008-2016 Visiting Artist, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 1998
Visiting Artist, Watercolor, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 1996
Visiting Artist, Bellevue College, Bellevue, Nebraska, 1993
Juror, “Unifest Art Competition,” Lincoln Arts Council, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1993
Visiting Artist, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, 1993
Visiting Artist, Concordia College, Seward, Nebraska, 1991
Member, Nebraska Arts Council, Arts-in-Education Grant Review Panel, Omaha, Nebraska, 1988-present Visiting Artists, Wayne State College, Wayne, Nebraska, 1990
Juror, “Art by Architects,” Nebraska Society of Architects, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1990
Visiting Artist, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, 1989
Faculty, Nebraska Scholars’ Institute, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1989
Guest Lecturer, Visiting Scholars Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Business Administration, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1987
Visiting Artist, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 1987
Guest Lecturer, Nebraska Wesleyan University Watercolor Workshop, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1985

Professional Gallery Representation

Anderson Obrien Fine Art, Omaha Design Center, 1502 Cumming St., Omaha, Nebraska

Selected Collections, Museums

The Museum of Nebraska Art
Springfield Missouri Art Museum
Great Plains Studies Art Collection, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Sheldon Art Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Selected Collections by Donation

“Collimation 2009,” donated by Ann and Frank Sidles to the Sheldon Art Museum permanent collection through the University of Nebraska Foundation.

Selected Collections, Corporate

AT&T CompanyAmerican Charter FederalBryan Memorial Hospital
BKD, LLpCliff’s Notes, Inc.Cooper Foundation
Deloitte Touche Co.First National Bank OmahaFirsTier Bank
Fremont National Bank & TrustFrost, Meyers, Guilfoyle & GoGreen Plains Ethanol HallmarkJeffrey, Hahn, Hemmerling & WadeKnudsen, Berkheimer, Richardson, & Endacott
Leo A. Daly CompanyLincoln General HospitalLincoln Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Clinic Nebraska Orthopedic AssociatesNoble Communications CompanyNorwest Bank
Omaha Chamber of CommerceThe Robert & Karen Duncan CollectionShearson Lehman Brothers, Inc. Southwestern Bell TelephoneVistar BankAmeritas Insurance
Assurity life InsuranceFarmers Mutual Insurance