About Susan Turner

Susan Turner is a full time artist with a Bachelor of Science and a Master’s Degree in Elementary Edu. and a minor in Art. Her teaching background includes 26 years in elementary school, where art was incorporated, almost daily, into the curriculum.

She has taught Floor Cloth and Decorative Arts workshops at the Fine Arts Center, in Tullahoma, Tennessee, Mountain Works Gallery in Monteagle, TN, Trousdale Studio in Decatur AL, Artsfest in Grafton, Australia and from her studio, Brand New Day, in New Market, Alabama. She has given private painting and drawing lessons as well as teaching after school art classes at Walnut Grove Elementary in New Market. She has painted over 125 commissioned floor cloths and wall hangings and painted over 300 original designs.She exhibits her work in art shows and galleries in the Southeast. They include Panoply, Huntsville, Alabama, Fine Arts Festival, Tullahoma, Tennessee, Tennessee Association of Craft Artists Full Cast Exhibition at the University of Sewanee, TN, Webb School Fall Art Show, Bell Buckle, TN, the Centennial Holiday Art Show in Franklin, TN, Bluff Park Art Show in Birmingham, Alabama, Arts Alive in Florence, AL, the Bloomin’ Arts Festival in Cullman, AL, Art on the Lake in Guntersville, AL, as well as others.

She has received media coverage from the Daily Herald of Columbia, TN, Shelbyville-Times Gazette, Shelbyville, TN, Huntsville Times, Huntsville, AL, The Gleam of Guntersville, AL and Bliss Magazine, Florence, AL. She has served on the Tennessee Arts Commission to award grants to artists in Southern Tennessee. She is the owner of Brand New Day Art Studio located on her great grandparent’s farm in New Market, Alabama.