About Suzanne
Suzanne M. Packer exhibited her first work in the San Francisco Museum of Art when she was five years old. Her work has since been exhibited and collected from New England to California, Greece, and Pakistan. It is in many private and corporate collections, including the Cahoon Museum of American Art, the Cape Cod Museum of Art, and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.
Packer became the founding Director of the Cape Cod Museum of Art in 1983, after living in Mexico City, Mexico and London, England. Years living abroad had a significant influence on her painting. Her formal training includes the Rhode Island School of Design, the Art Students League of New York City, and the Fine Arts Work Center of Provincetown. During the Cape Cod years she has maintained studio spaces at the Brewster Street Studios, Provincetown, MA, the A Street Studios and the Fenway Studios, both Boston, MA and the Owl Studios at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod. Now her unruly Bass River gardens and the ever-changing waters of Cape Cod find their way into her work at her Horse Way Studio.
2018 was the year that Packer received the Muse Artist Award, presented by the Cape Cod Museum of Art, for “outstanding contributions to the Cape Cod Museum of Art and to the community”. With this award came Cape Waters Abstracted, a solo exhibition of her paintings held at the museum. Other one-person exhibitions over the years have included the Cahoon Museum of American Art in 1997, the Sparrow House Museum in 1999, and Spanning The Years: A. S. Packer & Suzanne M. Packer at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in 2007. The exhibition included paintings and illustrations by her father and mentor, the noted New York illustrator, A. S. Pacer. Solo exhibitions include the Cape Cod Chat House Galleries, 2013 through 2016 and currently at the Cross Rip Gallery since 2017.
Selected juried shows include: The League At The Cape, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA, 1993, jurors, Marisol, Michael Goldberg, Will Barnet and Francis Cunningham, National Open Painting, The Providence Art Club, Providence, RI, 2002 and 2010, juror, Gretchen Dow Simpson, Radius, DWRI Letterpress Gallery, Providence, RI, 2013, juror, Bunny Harvey, Botanicals Reinterpreted, Dillon Gallery, Cohasset, MA, 2018, juror Mary Moquin, The Works National, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, 2019, juror Jackie Reeves, The Leo Diehl Show, Creative Arts Center, 2002 and 2009, Happy Place, Cape Cod Museum of Art 2023 and Cape to Cape, Rocky Neck Art Colony, Gloucester, MA, 2023. Since her days at RISD she has studied with Sal Del Deo, Anna Poor, Bert Yarbrough, Pricilla Sibley, Selina Trieff & her father, A. S. Packer.
"Suzanne M. Packer takes it further by amping up the scale and introducing aromatic persuasion with a floral palette balanced by cool watery blues. Known more for her colorful still lifes, figures and plein-air paintings as part of the "21 in Truro" collective, Packer makes her comfortable transition to abstraction seem like a natural progression from the sources of her coveted flower garden and the Cape's waterways."
Andre Van Der Wende, Cape Cod Times, Cape Week,
March 16, 2012
"The Note is a splendid, possibly great still life, not least because of superb, if subtle, use of plane and recession, almost unknown in still life painting."
Frank Getlein, Art Critic & Curator, 1997
In addition to painting, Suzanne devotes a significant amount of time to mentoring other artists and to community projects. She was a founder and co-chair of Women Creating, a multi-media exhibition celebrating the creative women of Cape Cod. She served on the staff of the Chatham Creative Arts Center as coordinator of the Festival of the Arts, a three-day, nationally juried arts and crafts festival. She served nine years on the Board of the Cultural Center of Cape Cod. Since its inception in 1999, she has been a member of the group of artists known as Twenty-One In Truro. She is Past President, Cape Cod Branch of the National League of American Pen Women, a member of The Printmakers of Cape Cod and an Honorary Trustee at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. Suzanne gives classes, demonstrations and workshops at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, and The Cape Cod Museum of Art.
Another medium has been added to Packer's creativity, the White-Line Woodblock Print, AKA the Provincetown Print. Her first show of the prints was in 2013 at the Chat House Gallery. In 2016 she curated, “Crossing the Line: Innovators of the White-Line Print” at the Cape Cod Museum of Art.
“Very lovely and technically superb white-line woodcuts. The Provincetown print tradition lives on."
Abigail Rorer, Juror, “Impressions, Prints”
Cultural Center of Cape Cod, March 2014
One Person Exhibitions
2022 Cross Rip Gallery, Harwichport, MA, Come Together, Packer, Luppi and Nelson
2021 Cross Rip Gallery, Harwichport, MA, Suzanne & Dick
2020 Falmouth Art Center, Falmouth, MA, Constants/Changes, Suzanne M. Packer
2019 Blue Room Gallery, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Cape Waters Abstracted II
2018 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Cape Waters Abstracted
2016 Balcony Gallery, Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis, MA, Abstracted Landscapes of Cape Cod
2010 - 2015 Sarah Jessica Fine Arts, Provincetown, MA, Abstract & Landscape Oil Paintings
2015 Chat House Gallery, Dennis, MA, Influences
2015 Chat House Gallery, Dennis, MA.The Back Story
2014 Blue Room Gallery, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Cape Cod Colors
2014 Chat House Gallery, Dennis, MA, Light Defines
2013 The Galleries at The Chat House, Dennis, MA, Layers of Color, Oil Paintings & White Line Woodblock Prints
2013 Blue Room Gallery at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Paper Works & Paintings
2010 The Vault Gallery, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Unruly Flowers
2009 The Framing Gallery, Hawthorne, NY, Flower Riot
2007 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Spanning The Years, A. S. Packer & Suzanne M. Packer
2007 The Vault, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA
2006 Bellezza Day Spa Gallery, Falmouth, MA, Paintings by Suzanne
2002 - 2004 Star Gallery, Orleans, MA, Landscapes and Figures
2003 Gallery 31, Orleans, MA
1993, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2004 Old Selectmen’s Building Gallery, Barnstable, MA
2002 - 2012 Gallery 333, Falmouth, MA
2002 Star Gallery, Orleans, MA, Fantasies In Oil and Clay with Liam Skye
2002 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Open Studios
2002 Gallery 333, Falmouth, MA, Fantasy Still Life
2001 Dennis Public Library, Dennis, MA, Wall Of Wonders
1999 Sparrow House Museum, Plymouth, MA, Suzanne’s Work
1999 Rehab Hospital Cape & Islands, Sandwich, MA, Paintings
1996 - 1999 Market Barn Gallery, Falmouth, MA, Suzanne’s Paintings
1998 Brewster Ladies Library, Brewster, MA, Lush Environments
1997 Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, Flourishing
1997 Wellfleet Library, Paintings
1997 Cape Cod Conservatory, Barnstable, MA, An Overview
1996 Cape Cod 5 Cents Saving Bank, Wellfleet, MA, Suzanne's Works
1996 Old Selectmen’s Building, Oil Paintings & Prints
1995 Collections Gallery, Provincetown, MA, First Landscapes and New Still Life’s
1995 Falmouth Hospital, Falmouth, MA, Sunflowers and More
1994 C3TV Gallery, South Yarmouth, MA, A Part of Me, A Part of You
1993 Myers Furniture, Hyannis, MA, First Night
1993 Old Selectmen’s Building, West Barnstable, Recent Works
Invitational & Juried Exhibitions
2023 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, In Tandem, National Juried
2023 Rocky Neck Art Colony, Gloucester, MA, Cape to Cape
2023 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Happy Place, National Juried, Peter Kalill, Juror
2023 204 Gallery, Harwich, MA, Cross Rip Gallery at 204
2023 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Members Juried
2022 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Wrap It Up
2022 Cross Rip Gallery, Harwichport, MA, Small & Large
2022 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Members
2022 Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, Piece By Piece
2022 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Transparent Translucent Opaque, Layered Meanings
2022 Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, In A Mood, Winter Art 2022
2022 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Members Juried
2021 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Visions/Revisions, 21 In Truro
2021 Cross Rip Gallery, Harwich, MA, Group Showings, April - Dec
2021 Falmouth Art Center, Falmouth, MA, BLUE, 21In Truro
2021 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Changing Tide, Members Juried
2020 Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Members Juried
2020 Provincetown Art Association & Museum, 12 x 12
2020 Cross Rip Gallery, Harwich, MA, Feature Artist, April - Dec
2020 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Recent Gifts
2020 Cross Rip Gallery, Harwich, MA, Group Showings, June - Dec
2020 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Members Juried
2019 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Pen Women, Two Day Sale
2019 Castle Hill, Truro, MA, 21 In Truro Pop Up Show
2019 Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, Responding to the Collection/21In Truro
2019 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, National Juried, The Works
2019 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Abstract II
2019 Cross Rip Gallery, Harwich, MA, Force of Nature
2019 Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Members Juried
2019 Provincetown Art Association & Museum, 12 x 12
2019 Cross Rip Gallery Harwich, MA, Exhibitions, April through December
2019 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Denis, MA, Docents Choice
2019 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Members Juried
2018 Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI, 21 + 19
2018 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Members Juried, Light In A Dark Season
2018 Cross Rip Gallery, Harwich, MA, Seven Exhibitions, April through December
2018 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Juried, Art & Science - More Alike than Different
2018 Audrey Interiors, Harwich, MA, Incorporate Original Art
2018 Marion Craine Gallery, Snow Library, Orleans, MA, Pen Women
2018 Dillon Gallery, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, juried, Botanicals Reinterpreted
2018 Viaduct Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa, juried, 49th Biennial Art Competition by the National League of American Pen Women
2018 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, juried, Cape Cod Interpretations
2018 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, juried, Anywhere But Here
2018 Cross Rip Gallery, Harwich, MA
2018 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Larger Than Life, Smaller Than Life
2009 - 2018 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Members
1993 - 2018 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Members
2017 - 2018 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Grateful For Gifts to the Permanent Collection
2017 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Bob Spohn Collection Gift to the Museum
2017 Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA, Benefit Auction
2017 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Impromptu III
2017 Cross Rip Gallery, Harwich Port, MA, Packer White-Lines and Oil with Demo
2017 Cross Rip Gallery, Harwich Port, MA, Packer & Blume, White-Line and Oils
2017 Cross Rip Gallery, Harwich Port, MA, Color, Color Everywhere
2017 Cross Rip Gallery, Harwich Port, MA, Figures & Faces
2017 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Summer of Love Auction
2017 Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA, Twenty-One In Truro, Love of Place
2017 Cross Rip Gallery, Harwich Port, MA, Abstract & Figurative Art
2017 Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, Piece x Piece III
2017 Osterville Village Library, Osterville, MA, The Printmakers of Cape Cod, Contemporary Printmaking, Creative Innovations
2017 Cross Rip Gallery, Harwich Port, MA, April Showers Brought May Flowers
2016 - 2017 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Crossing the Line: Innovators of the White Line Print
2016 - 2017 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Looking Ahead: Inaugural Member’s Exhibition
2016 The Printmakers of Cape Cod, Creative Arts Center, Chatham, MA
2016 Revelry, Art Marathon, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA
2016 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, 12 x 12
2016 Woodruff’s Art Center, Mashpee, MA, Creatively Small Art For All
2016 Creative Arts Center, Chatham, MA, Twenty-One In Truro: Elements: 21 Interpretations
2016 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Members' Juried
2016 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, SouthYarmouth, MA, Owl Club Studio Artists
2016 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, 6th Annual Member’s Exhibition
2016 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Printmakers of Cape Cod
2015 - 2016 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Members Open Small Works
2015 Rice Gallery, Mashpee, MA, New Works & New Artists
2015 Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, They Saw: Piece By Piece, II
2015 Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, Before & After, Exhibition and Panel
2015 Sandwich Arts Alliance, Sandwich, MA, Arts in Action
2015 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Collection in Context: Women Creating
2014 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Members Juried: PAAM 100: Part I
2014 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Recent Gifts to the Collection: Part III
2014 Creative Arts Center, Chatham, MA, Second Annual September Invitational, From the Bridge to Race Point
2014 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Members Juried: PAAM 100 Years, Part II
2014 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, 100 Years, Part 3, 21 In Truro Box Project
2014 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, All About sEVEn
2014 New Church Preservation Gallery, Yarmouth Port, MA, 100 x 100
2014 - 2015 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Members
1993 - 2018 Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA, Members and Juried Shows
2014 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Impressions, White-Line Woodblock
2013 Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, Innovation and Color: The Reinterpretation of the Woodcut
2013 - 2014 Rice Gallery, Mashpee Commons, MA, Grand Opening, Oils and White-Line Woodblocks
2013 Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, Piece By Piece, I
2013 Prints and the Potter Art Gallery, Worcester, MA, Paint and Switch
2013 Luminatti Gallery, Dennis, MA, Opening Gala
2013 Thornton Burgess, Green Briar Nature Center, Sandwich, MA, Pen Women of Cape Cod
2005 Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA, 12 x 12 Auction
2013 Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA, America the Beautiful
2013 SRD Gallery, Dennis, MA, 21 Reflections by 21 In Truro
2013 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Priceless: Works That Artists Wouldn’t Sell
2013 SRD Gallery, Dennis, MA, Vessels
2013 DWRI Letterpress Gallery, Providence, RI, Radius
2013 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Preliminarie
2013 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, From the Permanent Collection
2012 Sarah Jessica Fine Arts Gallery, Provincetown, MA, Abstract Paintings by Suzanne Packer
2012 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Giving 100 Percent
2012 The New Church Preservation Gallery, Yarmouthport, MA, LandEscapes
2012 Westfield State University, Westfield, MA, Twenty-One in Truro Cape Cod Visions
2012 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Picture Window
2012 SRD Gallery, Dennis, MA, Fine Arts Invitational
2012 Gallery 333, North Falmouth, MA, 25th Anniversary Exhibitions
2012 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Celebrating the Arts
2012 Elizabeth Rowley Gallery, Orleans, MA, Alumni
2012 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, From the Permanent Collection
2012 Chat House Gallery, Dennis, MA, To See or Not To See: Abstract Art Exhibit
2012 Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, Bridges: Expanding the Image, 21 In Truro
2012 Gallery 333, Falmouth, MA, 25th Anniversary Exhibition
2012 Guyer Barn, Hyannis, MA, Morning Muse
2012 Chat House Gallery, Dennis, MA, Barley Spring: The Contemporary Nude
2012 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Members Portraits
2009 - 2017 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Members
2011 Cape Cod Chat House Gallery, Dennis, MA, Abstract Paintings
2011 Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, Outermost Embrace, 21 In Truro
2011 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, America The Beautiful, Fiber & Paint
2011 Duffy Center, Hyannis, MA, Teacher Paintings
2011 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Celebrating Flowers
2011 Yarmouth Town Hall, Yarmouth, MA, Paintings
2010 Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, America The Beautiful
2010 Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA, Glories of the Garden
2004, 2009, 2010 Creative Arts Center, Chatham, MA, All Cape
2010 State House, Boston, MA, America The Beautiful, Fiber & Paint
2010 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Between Sea & Sky
2010 Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, Through Windows
2010 Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA, Black & White
2010 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Permanent Collection Exhibition
2010 Providence Art Club, Providence, RI, National Open Painting
2010 Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, First Things First
2010 Falmouth Art Guild, Falmouth, MA, Color of Snow
2002 - 2010 Highland House Museum, Truro, MA, Twenty-One In Truro
2007 - 2014,Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Celebrating The Arts
2009 - 2011 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Mutual Muse II & III
2009 Brickbottom Gallery, Sommerville, MA, The Natural World
2009 Brewster Ladies Library, Brewster, MA, Fiber & Paint
2009, 2010 Castle Hill, Truro, MA, Members Exhibition
2009 Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, Nature's Canvas
2009 Highland House Museum, Truro, MA, Twenty-One In Truro: Truro / Truro
2009 Creative Arts Center, Chatham, MA, Leo Diehl Show
2008 Kobalt Gallery, Provincetown, MA, Special Women's Week Exhibit
2008 Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA, 2nd Annual Gala Featuring the Twenty-One In Truro
2008 Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA, What is BIG?
2008 Castle Hill, Truro Center For the Arts, Truro, MA, Small Works
2008 Castle Hill, Truro Center For the Arts, Truro, MA, New Instructors
2008 Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA, Art of the Garden
2008 Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, A Feast For the Eyes
2008 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Human Figures from the Permanent Collection
2007 Blue Mountain Gallery, New York City, Cape Cod At Blue Mountain
2006 - 2007 Osterville Fine Art and Design Gallery
2007 Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA, Visions & Voices of the Outer Cape, Twenty-One In Truro Artists and Outer Cape Poets
2007 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Members Juried
2007 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Gala Opening
2007 Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA, Snow Scenes
2007 Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA, Little Treasurers, Big Pleasures
2005 - 2007 Osterville Fine Art and Design, Osterville, MA, Selection of Works
2006 Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA, Grand Opening
2006 Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA, Spring Jury
2005 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Twenty-One In Truro
2005 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Members Juried Portraits
1993 - 2018 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Members Open
2005 Fine Arts Works Center, Provincetown, MA, Drawings
2005 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, Fresh Art
2004 Cotuit Center For The Arts, Cotuit, MA, December
2004 Higgins Gallery, Cape Cod Community College, Star Gazing
2004 Creative Arts Center, Chatham, MA, All Cape Show
2004 Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA, Intimations
2004 Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA, As It Was In The Beginning: The Art of The Nude
2003 - 2004 Gallery 31, Orleans, MA, Selected Works
2003 Old Selectmen’s Building, West Barnstable, MA, Sense Of Place
2003 Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, Snow Birds
2003 - 2004 Ruth Hogan Gallery, Orleans, MA, Twenty-One In Truro
2003 - 2005 Star Gallery, Orleans, MA, Mini Masterpieces and Cosmic Women
2002 Providence Art Club, Providence, RI, National Open Paintings, Juror, Gretchen Dow Simpson
2002 Creative Arts Center, Chatham, MA, Leo Diehl Show
2002 Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA, RISD Alumni, inch x inch
2002 Old Selectman’s Building Gallery, Barnstable, MA, Twenty-One In Truro
2002 Highland House Museum, Truro, MA, Twenty-One In Truro
2002 Creative Arts Center, Chatham, MA, All Cape Art Show
2002 Creative Arts Center, Chatham, MA, Twenty-One In Truro New Paintings
2002 Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA, Originators of Women Creating
2002 Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave
2001 Creative Arts Center, Chatham, MA, Leo Diehl Exhibition
2001 Snow Library, Orleans, MA, Twenty-One In Truro, Back From Corn Hill, I
2001 Old Selectmen’s Building, West Barnstable, MA, Twenty-One In Truro, Back From Corn Hill, II
2001 Hyperbole Gallery, Newburyport, MA, Twenty-One In Truro
2001 Rehabilitation Center, Cape Cod & the Island, Sandwich, MA, Reclamation of the Wild Child
2001 Trinity Communications, Boston, MA, RISD Alumni
2001 Star Gallery, Orleans, MA, Wild Child I
2001 Cataument Arts Center, Cataument, MA, The Laundry Show
2001 Higgins Gallery, Cape Cod Community College, Barnstable, MA, A Body of Work
2001 Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA, Annual Auction
2001 Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Figuratively Speaking
2001 Provincetown Art Association & Museum, No Theme
2001 Rehabilitation Hospital of Cape and Islands, Sandwich, MA, Dreams and Myths
2000 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Juried Alumni Holiday Art Sale
2000 Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, Women Creating
2000 Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, Twenty-One In Truro
2000 Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA, Annual Auction
2000 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Wind and Wave
2000 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Abstraction
2000 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Portraits
1999 - 2000 Jan Collins Selman Fine Art, Falmouth, MA, Meet The Artists
1999 Cataumet Arts Center, Cataumet, MA, Cape Cod Ghost Ranch Painters
1999 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Patterns, John Grillo, Juror
1999 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Members Open
1999 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Collections Living Artists
1999 Brewster Ladies Library, Brewster, MA, Visual Artists Cooperative
1999 Rehab Hospital Cape Cod & Islands, Auction Artist
1999 Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, Women Creating
1999 Mashpee Commons, Mashpee, MA, Artists At The Mall
1999 C3TV, South Yarmouth, MA, Cape Cod Women’s Organization
1998 - 1999 Gallery By The Sea, Plymouth, MA
1998 - 2008 Cahoon Museum of American Art, Brush Off
1998 - 1999 Elizabeth Rowley Gallery, Dennis, MA
1998 Art Serve Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Postcards On The Edge
1998 Faxon Center Gallery, Falmouth, MA, Color: Up Close & Faraway
1998 - 1999 American Association of University Women, Kingsway, Yarmouthport, MA, Art In Spring
1998 Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, Pocket-Sized Pictures
1998 Art Serve Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Postcards on the Edge
1998 Willowbend Golf Club, Osterville, MA, Brandies University, Cape Cod Chapter
1998 Barnes & Noble, Hyannis, MA, Window Artist
1998 Faxon Center Gallery,Falmouth Hospital, Falmouth, MA, Color: up close, far away
1998 C3TV, South Yarmouth, MA, Yarmouth Cultural Council
1998 Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, Women Creating
1998 Cataumet Art Center, Cataumet, MA, The Artist’s Forest
1998 Creative Arts Center, Chatham, MA, Visual Artists Cooperative
1998 Old Selectmen’s Building Gallery, Barnstable, MA, New Works, Visual Artists Cooperative
1998 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 6th Grade Selects
1998 Fenway Studios, Boston, MA, Holiday Open House
1997 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Juried Drawings
1997, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA, Secret Gardens
1997 Cummaquid Fine Arts, Cummaquid, MA, Small Works
1997 Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Brewster, MA, The Figure In Art
1997 Mashpee Commons, Mashpee, MA, Women Creating
1997 The Market Barn Gallery, Falmouth, MA, Shadows and Reflections
1997 Swansborough Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, Visual Artists Cooperative
1997 Cape Cod Conservatory, Barnstable, MA, Winter Work, Visual Artists Cooperative
1997 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, The Province Lands
1997 C3TV, South Yarmouth, MA, Summer Splendors, Visual Artist Cooperative
1997 Brain Center, New Seabury, MA, The Creative Process of Artistic Expression
1997 Mashpe Commons, Mashpe, MA, Women Creating
1996 - 2003 Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA Brush Off
1996, 1997, 1998 Falmouth Artists Guild, Falmouth, MA, Winter Open, Summer
1996 Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA, Recent Gifts To The Collection
1996 Snow Library,Orleans, MA, Visual Artists Cooperative
1996 Mashpee Commons, Mashpee, MA, Art-in-the Marketplace
1996 Cataumet Arts Center, Cataumet, MA, Fall Show, Visual Artist Cooperative
1996 Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA, Figures
1996 Guyer Barn Gallery, Hyannis, MA, Suzanne Packer and Linda Young
1996 Falmouth Artist’s Guild, Fallmouth, MA, Summer
1996 The Market Barn Gallery, Falmouth, MA, The Artists
1996 Guyer Barn Gallery, Hyannis, MA, Tenth Anniversary
1996 Guyer Barn Gallery, Hyannis, MA, Mashpee Ties
1996 Channel 2, Boston, MA, Channel 2 Collection
1995 - 1996 Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Brewster, MA, Small Works
1995 - 1996 Truro Historical Society, Truro, MA, Move The Light House
1995 - 1997 Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, Great Brush Off
1995 - 1997 Gallery at C3TV, South Yarmouth, MA, Women Creating, Juried
1995 Old Selectmen’s Gallery, Nature In Canvas and Stone
1995 Gallery at C3TV, South Yarmouth, MA, Yarmouth Artists by Yarmouth Cultural Council
1994 Old Selectmen’s Gallery, Three Realities
1994 Yarmouth Port Barn, 3rd Annual Art In The Barn
1994 Orleans Town Hall Gallery, Orleans, MA, Festival of the Arts
1994 Channel Two Collection, Cambridge, MA
1994 Guyer Barn, Hyannis, MA, Flowers
1993 Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA, The League at the Cape, jurors,
Marisol, Michael Goldberg, Will Barnet, and Francis Cunningham
1993 Barnstable, MA, Tales of Cape Cod
1993 Cummaquid Fine Arts, Cummaquid, MA, Nudes By Invitation
1993 Town Hall Art Gallery, Orleans, MA, Love, Myth, Fantasy
1993 Town Hall Art Gallery, Orleans, MA, Cape Scapes
1993 Town Hall Art Gallery, Orleans, MA, One Old - One New
1992 Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, MA, Constructions
1977 Marblehead Art Association, Marblehead, MA, Group
Demonstrations, Lectures, Teaching, Curating
2021 Curator, Visions/Revisions, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2020 Curator, NLAPW at Marion Craine Gallery, Orleans, MA
2019 Juror, Falmouth Art Center, Falmouth, MA, Abstract Works
2019 Participating Artist, On The Edge, Documentary Produced by Eli Woods
2019 White-Line Woodblock Demo, Mastering Your Mark, Double Tree Inn, Hyannis, MA
2019 White-Line Woodblock Workshop, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA
2019 Juror, Cape Cod Art Center, Opposites Attract, Barnstable, MA
2018 Juror, Yarmouth Art Guild at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South, Yarmouth, MA
2018 Gallery talk for Cape Waters Abstracted, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2018 Gallery talk for National League of American Pen Women, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2018 White-Line Woodblock Demo, Cape Cod Museum Of Art, Dennis, MA
2017 Juror, Fall Members, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
2017 Panel Member, Twenty-One In Truro, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
2017 White-Line Woodblock Demo, Cross Rip Gallery, Harwich Port, MA
2016 - 2017 Curated by Suzanne M. Packer, Crossing the Line: Innovators of the White-Line Print, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2016 Curated by Suzanne M. Packer, Honoring Our Past - The Evolution of the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Celebrating 35 Years, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2016 White-Line Woodblock Printing Workshop, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2016 White-Line Woodblock Printing Workshop, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA
2016 Color Composition with Oil Painting Class, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2016 Composition, Color, Contrasts, Classes, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA
2016 Summer Painting, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA
2015 White-Line Woodblock Two-Day Workshop, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2015 Importance of Shape & Color, Artist Talk, Chat House Gallery, Dennis, MA
2015 Arts in Action, Demo, Sandwich Arts Alliance, Sandwich, MA
2015 Suzanne M. Packer: Color Composition with Oil Painting, Cape Cod Museum of Art,
2015 A Conversation With Great Brush Off Founders, Cahoon Museum of American Art
2015 Oil Painting Three-Day Workshop, Cultural Center of Cape Cod
2015 Color and Composition Classes, Cultural Center of Cape Cod
2014 Oil Painting Three-Day Workshop, Cultural Center of Cape Cod
2014 All About sEVEn Gallery Group Talk, Cape Cod Museum of Art
2014 White-Line Woodblock Two-Day Workshop, Cape Cod Art Association
2014 Light Defines, Artist Talk, Chat House Gallery, Dennis, MA
2014 White-Line Woodblock Demo, Cultural Center of Cape Cod
2014 White-Line Woodblock Demo, Cahoon Museum of American Art
2013 White-Line Woodblock Demo, Rice Gallery, Mashpee Commons
2013 White-Line Woodblock Demo, Chat House Gallery
2013 Color and Composition, Two-Day Workshop, Cultural Center of Cape Cod
2012 - 2017 Juror for Seimens Art Scholarship, South Yarmouth Library,South Yarmouth, MA
2012 Draw, Paint, Collage: Three Special Sessions with Suzanne Packer, Cultural Center of Cape Cod
2011 Painting Demo, Yarmouth Art Guild
2011 Color and Still Life, Five Day Workshop, Truro Center For The Arts at Castle Hill
2010 Creative Collaborative Conference, Hyannis, MA, Twenty-One In Truro
2010 Painting Demo, Cultural Center of Cape Cod
2010 Painting Demo, Yarmouth Art Guild
2009 - 2014 Color & Composition, Six Week Courses on-going basis, Cultural Center of Cape Cod
2009 Color Your Summer, Six Week Course, Cultural Center of Cape Cod
2009 Color and Still Life, Five Day Workshop, Truro Center For The Arts at Castle Hill
2009 Painting With Oils, One Week Course, Kingston House, Bermuda
2009 Brighten Up Your Winter, Two Still Life Painting Workshops, The Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA
2008 Gallery Talk, Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA
2008 Oil Painting Demo, Yarmouth Art Guild
2007 Gallery Talks for Spanning the Years, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Sept, Nov
2007 Gallery Talks for Visions and Voices of the Outer Cape, Provincetown Art Association & Museum
2006 Secret Garden Tour, The Cape Cod Museum of Arts
2005 Secret Garden Tour, The Cape Cod Museum of Arts
2004 Brown Bag Talk, Higgins Gallery, Cape Cod Community College, Barnstable, MA
2004 Gallery Talk, Intimations, Cape Museum of Fine Arts
2004 - 2005 Still Life Oil Painting, The Atelier Program, Cultural Center of Cape Cod
2004, 2008 Still Life Painting, Demo, Yarmouth Art Guild, Yarmouth, MA
2003 Painting The Still Life, Demo, Newton Art Association, Newton, MA
2003 Painting In Greece, Lecture, Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA
2003 How To Be An Artist, Talk, Elementary School, Pensacola, FL
2003 Life and Art, Illustrated Lecture, Seimens Lecture Series, South Yarmouth Library
1999 Installer for Photographic Exhibition, Marine Biological Library, Woods Hole, MA
1999 Art in Spring, American Association of University Women, Yarmouthport, MA
1998 - 2000 Yarmouth Library Art Advisory Panel, South Yarmouth, MA
1998 Listening to the Muse: Career Transitions, Panel, Cape Cod Women’s Organization
1998 Art in Spring, American Association of University Women, Yarmouthport, MA
1998 Oil Demos, Elizabeth Rowley Gallery, Dennis, MA
1998 Oil Demo, Gallery By-The-Sea, Plymouth, MA
1998 Still Life Demo, Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA
1997 Chefs’ Sampler, Housing Assistance, Hyannis
1997 Flourishing Gallery Talk, Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA
1997 Secret Garden Tour, The Cape Cod Museum of Arts
1996 - 2010 Brush Off, Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA
1995 Co-Curator with Linda S. Young, Women Creating, Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA
1995 The Great Lighthouse Moving Paint Off, Truro, MA
1991 Panel Member, Sense of Place, Cape Cod Commission, Hyannis, MA
1990 Juror, Members, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
On-going Private Painting Lessons, Contact Suzanne M. Packer
Awards
2019 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Outstanding Dedication & Commitment to Cape Cod Museum of Art
2018 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Muse Artist Award, 2018
2018 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, The CCMoA Muse Artist Award
2016 Cape Cod Museum of Art, 35 Years of Preserving and Presenting Cape Cod's Creative Culture Award
2015 Cape Cod Museum of Art, In Recognition of Outstanding Dedication & Commitment to Cape Cod Museum of Art Award
2014 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Impressions, Jurors' Choice
Creative Arts Center, All Cape Show, oil, Blue Bureau XII, 2nd place
Creative Arts Center, All Cape Show, oil, Happy Day, 2nd place
Cape Cod Women’s Organization, Study at Bennington College, VT, Scholarship Award
Cape Cod Women’s Organization, Study at Ghost Ranch, NM, Scholarship Award
1997 Cape Cod Women's Organization, In Recognition of Outstanding Volunteer Service
1996 Barnstable and Yarmouth Cultural Council, A Series of Hand Painted Prints, Grant Award
1993 Barnstable and Yarmouth Cultural Councils, A Part of Me, A Part of You, Grant Award
1955 Steffi Nosson Scholarship, Art Study at RISD, Scholarship Award
Education
2022 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Figure Friday with Susan Overstreet
2019 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Robert Henry
2016 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Vicki Tomayko
2007 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, Selina Trieff, Burt Yarborough
1997 Bennington College, Bennington, VT, Ron Rizzo
1996 Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, NM
1992 - 1995 Castle Hill, Truro, MA, Sal Del Deo, Joan Hopkins, Carol Odell, Anna Poor
1993 - 1997 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Sal Del Deo
1992 - 2005 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Life Drawing
1992 - 1994 Creative Arts Center, Chatham, MA, Life Drawing
1968 Hingham, MA, Pricilla Sibley
1955 - 1959 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1953 Art Students League, New York, NY
New York, A. S. Packer
Studio Spaces
1993 - 2023 Horse Way Studio, Bass River, MA
2015 - 2016 Owl Club Studio at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA
2012 Susan Danton Studio, Dennis, MA
1997 - 1998 Fenway Studios, Boston, MA
1994 - 1995 Fort Point Channel Studio, Boston, MA
1992 - 1993 Brewster Street Studios, Provincetown, MA
1992 Mid-Iron Drive, South Yarmouth, MA
1981 - 1983 Palacio de Versailles, Mexico City, Mexico
Corporate and Museum Permanent Collections
Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, “The Note”, oil; and “Rainy Day”, oil
Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis, MA, “Four Panel Screen, Flowers and Shells”, oil
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, “River Rising”, oil; “Red Sails w / Tulips”, white-line woodblock print; “Tulips By the Bay”, oil; and “Twenty-One In Truro Box Painting”, oil
Doreen Grace Brain Center, Mashpee, MA
Falmouth Hospital, Falmouth, MA,”Sunflowers”, oil
Forrester Research, Cambridge, MA, “Memories of Mexico I”, oil; “Memories of Mexico II”, oil
King-Miles Art Restoration, Providence, RI, “Still Life with Tin Pail”, oil
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, “Artist’s Geraniums”, oil and “Provincetown Tradition II, Box Project”, oil
Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape and Islands, Sandwich, MA, “Still Life”, oil
Robert Spohn Collection at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, “Cape Waters”, oil
Selection of Private Collections
Ann Bengston Collection, Washington, D. C.
Maria Constantinidis Collection, Greece
Alice King Miles Antiques and Art, RI
Gregory Pappas Collection, Pakistan & Washington, D. C.
Sparrow Collection of Contemporary Cape Cod Art, MA
Westmoreland Conservation of Fine Art, CA & MA
Xiques Collection of American and French Art, CA & NC
Community Service
2017 - 2023 Honorary Trustee, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2014 - 2023 Volunteer Archivist, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2010 - 2014 President, National League of American Pen Women, Cape Cod Branch
2008 - 2020 Board Member, National League of American Pen Women, Cape Cod Branch
2007 - 2021 Advisor for the Student Outreach Fund, Cape Cod Foundation, Cape Cod, MA
2000 - 2007 Board Member, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA
1999 Committee Member, Rehabilitation Hospital Cape & Islands Auction, Sandwich, MA
1999 Pops In The Park, Orleans, MA, Auction Painting
1999 United Way, Cape Cod, Auction Painting
1998 - 1999 Hearts for Arts Auction Painting
1998 - 1999 Steering Committee, Women Creating, Cape Wide
1998 Cahoon Museum of American Art, Raffle Painting
1998 Brewster Ladies Library Auction Painting
1994 - 1997 Co-Chair Women Creating, A Multi-Media Exhibition Celebrating The Creative Women of Cape Cod
1993 - 1997 Appointed Member of the Yarmouth Cultural Council
1993 - 1997 Board Member, Cape Cod Women’s Organization
1991 - 1992 Steering Committee, First Night Cape Cod
1991 Panel Member, Sense of Place, Cape Cod Commission
1987 Organized Alumni Club, Rhode Island School of Design, Cape Cod Branch
1986 - 1987 Advisory Board of Directors, Sentry Federal Savings Bank
1983 - 1987 Guide, Fort Point Channel Open Studios, Boston, MA
1984 - 1985 Trustee, Cape Museum of Fine Arts
1979 - 1980 Membership Chairperson, American School PTO, Mexico City, Mexico
1979 - 1980 Co-Chaired, International Family, Coping with Change, Mexico City, Mexico
1987 - 1980 Coordinator, Feria del Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
1979 - 1980, Docent, Jaquine Saenz Pre-Columbian Art Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
1972 - 1975 Vice-President, Plymouth River School PTO, Hingham, MA
Gallery Representation
2018 - 2023 Museum Shop Gallery, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2017 - 2023 Cross Rip Gallery, Harwichport, MA
2012 - 2018 The Artisans' Gallery, South Yarmouth, MA
2015 - 2016 Owl Club Studios at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod
2012 - 2016 Rice Gallery, Mashpee Commons, MA
2012 - 2015 Chat House Gallery, Dennis, MA
2012 - 2015 Sarah Jessica Fine Arts, Provincetown, MA
2013 Luminatti Gallery, Dennis, MA
2012 - 2013 SRD Gallery, Dennis, MA
2003 Gallery 31, Orleans, MA
2002 - 2012 Gallery 333, Falmouth, MA
2002 Mulberry Gallery, Vero Beach, FL
2002 - 2004 Star Gallery, Orleans, MA
1999 - 2000 Jan Selman Gallery, Falmouth, MA
1998 - 1999 Elizabeth Rowley Gallery, Dennis, MA
1998 - 1999 Gallery By The Bay, Plymouth, MA
1998 Diana Levine Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1996 - 1999 Market Barn Gallery, Falmouth, MA
1995 Collections Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1993 New Artists Gallery, South Yarmouth, MA
Memberships / Professional Organizations
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
Boston Visual Artists Union, 1974-75
Brickbottom Artists Association, Somerville, MA
Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA
Cape Cod Art Association, Artist Member, Barnstable, MA
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Life, Dennis, MA 1984 - 2023
Cape Cod Women’s Organization, Cape-Wide
Castle Hill Center For the Arts, Truro, MA
Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA
Creative Arts Center of Chatham, Chatham, MA
Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Founding Trustee and Parliament of Owls, South Yarmouth, MA 2000 - 2023
Duxbury Art Complex, Duxbury, MA
Falmouth Art Guild, Artist Member, Falmouth, MA
Fuller Art Museum, Brockton, MA
Morning Muse, Dennis, MA
National League of American Pen Women, member, 2007 - 2020
National League of American Pen Women, Past President, Cape Cod Branch
National League of American Pen Women Artists
Payment Performing Arts Center, Board Member, Truro, MA 2003
Printmakers of Cape Cod, Cape-Wide, 2016 - 2023
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Artist Member, 1985 - 2023
Rhode Island School of Design,Jesse + Helen Rowe Metcalf Society, Providence, RI
Shenendehowa Lunch Bunch, Honorary
Twenty-One In Truro, Cape-Wide, 1999 - 2023
Visual Artists Cooperative, Cape-Wide, 1992-95
Women’s Caucus For The Arts, Boston, MA
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Cape Cod Branch
Professional
1992 - 2023 Fine Art Artist, Horse Way Studio, Bass River, MA
2001 - 2005 Coordinator, Festival of the Arts, Chatham, MA
1985 - 1992 Director, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA
1983 - 1986 Graphic Designer, South Yarmouth, MA
1983 - 1984 Sales Manger, Kennedy Studios, Hyannis, MA & Boston, MA
1975 - 1976 Art Director (FAST.), Bridgeport, CT
1968 - 1982 Fine Art Artist, Hingham, MA, Westport, CT, Marblehead, MA, Mexico City, Mexico, London, England
1968 - 1975 Partner, Bare Cove Galler, Hingham, MA
Selected Articles & Publications
New Views, 6 ideas for adding art to your January
KATHY SCRIZZI DRISCOLL, Cape Cod Times, January 14, 2022
The Collection of Ann F. Bengtson
SUZANNE M. PACKER, Wall Text, Cape Cod Museum of Art, 2021-2022
Open Studio with Jared Bowen, Visions/Revisions
WGBH, TV, Boston, MA, 2021
Falmouth Art Center Showing New works By Suzanne Packer
The Falmouth Enterprise, January 3, 2020
Artist, Teacher, Muse: Packer Paints, Bonds Cape Cod’s Heartbeat
LEE ROSCO, ArtScope, May/June, 2019
This piece titled “On The Edge, Documentary Video for 21 In Truro
Eli Woods and Kate Nelson, 2019
Water, Women and A Sense of Place
DEB BOUCHER STETSON, Barnstable Patriot, August 11, 2018, The Register, August 30, 2018
How To Make a White-Line Woodblock Print
Register, January 11, 2018
New Board Members
SEAN F. DRISCOLLl, Cape Cod Times, November 9, 2017
Women Artists Bring Cape to Attleboro
KEN ROSS, Sun Chronicle, Attleboro, MA, April 6, 2017
Blurring the Lines
CONOR POWER-SMITH, Cape Experience, The Register, April 21,2016
Women Creating, Women’s History Month
DEBI BOUCHER STETSON, Cape Experience, January 2015
In Celebration of Women
ANN LUONGO, Cape Cod Magazine, February 2015
Cape Cod Poetry Review, Cover Art by Suzanne M. Packer
JOHN BONANNI, GEMMA LEGHORN, ML. WOLTERS, 2015
Legendary Locals of Yarmouth, Book
JOHN A. BASILE, 2014
All About sEVEn art exhibit: Pick of the week
Cape Week, Cape Cod Times, February, 2014
All About sEVEn
JACQUELYN MYSLIWIEC, Cape Cod Magazine, January - February 2014
Her Latest Foray
AISLING WILLIAMS, Cape Cod Magazine, November/December 2014
Cape’s Hallmark Art Form On Display
CONOR POWERS-SMITH, The Register, November 2013
Cape Cod’s Packer Demonstrates Woodblock Print Process
The Pen Woman Magazine, Summer 2013
He Saw, She Saw, We Saw, They Saw
Cape Week, Cape Cod Times, September 5, 2013
Innovation and Color: The Reinterpretation of the Woodcut
SPYGLASS, Fall 2013
Masterwork Mystery: Collaboration by 96 artists to be revealed in Cotuit
DONNA TUNNEY,Cape Experience, The Cape Codder, August 30, 2013
Cape Cod Chat House's first art exhibit of 2013
Voice of the Arts, AFCC, March 14, 2013
Bridges: Expanding the Image
21 In Truro Catalogue: The Duxbury Art Complex Museum, August 26 - November 11, 2012
Smart Art: To See or Not to See - abstract art at Chat House
ANDRE VAN DER WENDE, Cape Week, Cape Cod Times, March 16-22, 2012
The View Goes On Forever, Cape Waters XI
The Pen Woman Magazine, Spring 2011
“Twenty-One In Truro” Collection of Paintings at Cape Cod Museum of Art’s Annual Auction
Cape Arts Review, 2011
The Art of Suzanne M. Packer: Capturing the Color, Light and Movement of Cape Cod
NICOLA BURNELL, Cape Women Online, Winter 2010
100th Anniversary of “America the Beautiful”
Cape Arts Review, 2010
America The Beautiful, A Collaboration Between Painters and Fiber Artists
SHAWN NELSON, Exhibition Catalogue
My Art, My Space, My Love,
KIM BENSON & JAY ELLIOTT, photographer, Cape Cod Magazine, March 2009
21 In Truro, Highfield Hall Catalogue
Highfield Hall Publication, 2008
Visions and Voices of the Outer Cape, Provincetown Art Association & Museum
21 In Truro Publication, 2007
Spanning The Years, A. S. Packer & Suzanne M. Packer,
GILLIAN DRAKE, Cape Arts Review, 2007
Dennis Museum Features For First Time Together, Works by Suzanne Packer & A. S. Packer
The Enterprise, August 31, 2007
Art Talk, Provincetown Arts, 2007/08
SUZANNE M. PACKER
The Early Years Of The Cape Cod Museum of Art, Memoir
SUZANNE M. PACKER, Cape Arts Review, 2006
21 Artists In Truro,
STEPHANIE FOSTER, Cape Cod Chronicle, 2005
CMFA exhibit offers proof of evolution
BRITT BEEDENBENDER, Barnstable Patriot, Nov 4, 2005
21 In Truro
AMY DUFAULT, Cape Cod Life Magazine, October 2005
21 In Truro, Cape Cod Museum of Art Catalogue
21 IN TRURO Publication, 2005
A Home For Art By Any Other Name
STEPHANIE FOSTER, The Register, January 6, 2005
Star Gazing
The Main Sheet, September 14, 2004
Women Draw Inspiration From Truro Setting
ANDDRE VANDER WENDE, Smart Art, 2003
“21 In Truro” At Hogan Gallery
Cape Arts Review, 2003
21 In Truro
ELIZABETH WINSTON, Cape Cod Life, December 2002
Women’s Art Exhibitions: Celebration or Stigma?
REBECCA M. ALVIN, The Register,March 21, 2002,
Cape Codder, March 22, 2002
Cottage Industry
KATHI SCRIZZI DRISCOLL, Cape Cod Times, September 7, 2000
Twenty-One In Truro
DEBROAH J. CARR, Cape Women, Summer / Fall, 2000
Cottage Industry on Exhibit In Cotuit
DARYL SALENO, Night & Day, August 2000
Painting Picture Perfect Truro
LISA SHILO CHASE, Cape Cod Magazine, Fall 1999
Dune Struck
KATHI SCRIZZI, Cape Cod Times, November 8, 1999
Suzanne Packer, The Making of An Artist
DEBORAH J. CARR, Cape Women Magazine, Winter / Spring, 1999
Women Creating, Arts Festival
DEBORAH J. CARR, Cape Women Magazine, Winter / Spring, 1999
Holiday Show at Selman Fine Arts
WILLIAM J.ADELMAN, JR., The Enterprise, December 17, 1999
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, The Permanent Collection,
PAAM Publication, 1999
Changing Identity Isn’t Easy
HELEN GRAVES, Cape Cod Women, Spring 1998
Suzanne M. Packer, Works Inspired by the Cape & Islands
EDITORS, Cape Cod Life Magazine, Arts Annual, September 1997
Passion Shows
DEBORAH CARR, The Register, June 26, 1997
Women Creating
MAX WHEELER, Cape Cod Navigator, March - April,1997
The Two Collection 1994,
The WGBH Channel 2 Auction, Catalogue
Preserving Cape’s Artistic Legacy
JEFF MCLAUGHLIN, Boston Sunday Globe, 1994
Finding Utopia In Provincetown
E. J. GRAFF, The New York Times, Sunday, August 28, 1994
’59 Art Student Told ‘Sit in the Back’
STEPHANIE FOSTER, Cape Cod Women Magazine, Spring, 1993
Beyond Conventional Expectations: Wood/Fabric/Clay/Glass
GLADYS E. DZIEZIC, Cape Museum of Fine Arts Publication, June 1993
The League At The Cape
Provincetown Art Association & Museum Catalogue, PAAM Publication, 1993
The Art of Bringing a Dream to Fruition
KATHI SCRIZZI DRISCOLL,Cape Cod Times, Saturday, April 11, 1992
The Drawings of Edward Hopper, Acknowledgments
SUZANNE M. PACKER, Cape Museum of Fine Arts Catalogue, 1991
Home, Sweet Home
JOHANNA CROSBY, Cape Cod Times, Saturday, July 14, 1990
Preserving Cape’s Artistic Legacy
JEFF MCLAUGHLIN, Boston Globe, Sunday, 1990?
Wet Works' Wins
EDITORIAL, Opinion, Cape Cod Times, Wednesday, October 5, 1988
Arnold Geissbuhler, Retrospective
FIELDING DUPUY, Acknowledgment,Cape Museum of Fine Arts Catalogue, March 1987
Art Museum To Hold Exhibit In Garden
CINDY NICKERSON, Time Out, Sunday, July 28, 1985
Museum offers "steller day" for art on Cape Cod
MICHAEL MARLOW, Cape Cod Times, Monday, August,1985
New Officers And New space For CMFA
News Reviews, The Review: Cape Cod’s Arts & Antiques Magazine, Premier Issue, November/December 1985
Published Quotes
“According to information from former museum director Suzanne Packer that is displayed with the artwork, Bengtson acquainted herself with the Cape after moving here in the early ’80s by attending estate sales, attending art openings and visiting studios. At one time, her collection of local art filled her house and garage, Packer said, and she created shows in a variety of local buildings, including one of William H. Llittlefield paintings at the CCMOA.”
KATHIE SCRIZZI DRISCOLI, The Collection of Ann F. Bengtson, Patron of the Arts, Cape Cod Times/Cape Week, January 14, 2022
”The vivid, unexpected shapes and colors, which essentialize the energy, essence and spirit of place, create an almost telepathic response: without seeing a realistic rendering, viewers seem to know exactly where her subject is, for there is a universality not dependent on knowing the specific places she explores in paint. Her paintings stay in your mind after viewing, changing their perception.”
LEE ROSCOE, Art Scope, May/June 2019
"Packer's still-life works use color and pattern to draw the viewer into, through and around the painting."
ANN LUONGO, Cape Cod Magazine, Jan/Feb 2015
“I believe this may be Suzanne Packer’s best exhibition yet. To be specific, “Sand & Water”, is of a very common subject: the dunes of Cape, but Suzanne did not create a common work. It has in it underpinnings the feel of the great American regional painters from the 1940’s - the touch and layout of George Bellows with the palette of Georgia O’Keeffe…
“Water Runs Through” …striking bands of color staccato across the canvas…abstract or landscape”…
HEATHER BLUME, artist and Certified Art Appraiser, 2015
"Very lovely and technically superb white-line woodcuts. The Provincetown print tradition lives on."
ABIGAIL RORER, Juror,”Impressions, Prints”, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, March, 2014
“Several of the artists featured in the exhibit have also given talks about the white-line style, including Yarmouth’s Suzanne Packer. An established artist in other media, Packer represents the continuation of the white-line school, having recently taken up the technique.”
CONOR POWERS-SMITH, Cape’s Hallmark Art Form on Display, The Register, November 7, 2013
"Dear Musers,
We're back at the Dennis Memorial Library this week, but what a great meeting we had last week, welcoming spring with Suzanne Packer's amazing body of work on exhibit throughout The Chat House. Her talk about her work was revealing and inspirational. Do yourself a favor and see it there! See some photos on our FB page."
RORY MARCUS, Morning Muse email, March 24, 2013
"There are works from artists including Harry Holl, Suzanne Packer, Robert Vickery, Clare Leighton, Alexander Calder, Selina Trieff and many more.”
Barnstable Patriot , Standing Strong, September 10, 2012
"Suzanne M. Packer takes it further by amping up the scale and introducing aromatic persuasion with a floral palette balanced by cool watery blues. Known more for her colorful still lifes, figures and plein-air paintings as part of the "21 in Truro" collective, Packer makes her comfortable transition to abstraction seem like a natural progression from the sources of her coveted flower garden and the Cape's waterways."
ANDRE VAN DER WENDE, Cape Cod Times, Cape Week, March 16, 2012
“Suzanne Packer, who also served as the museum’s first director, created a work titled ” Dune Women" subtle interpretation of the female form that took many viewers by surprise.”
KAREN JEFFREY, Cape Cod Times, April 10, 2006
“Her oil paintings are inspired by time spent in Mexico and by the gardens and waters that surround her Bass River studio.”
ARLEEN HECHT, Falmouth Enterprise, July 29, 2005
“Expanding a collection is quite a challenge for a small museum…to acquire and exhibit works that show the influence of Cape Cod on American art, said executive director of the Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Elizabeth Ives Hunter…. Among the museum’s newly acquired work …a painting by Suzanne Packer…”
TIM WOOD, A-Plus, October, 2003
“But the more poignant paintings in Land of the Free, Home of the Brave are those reaffirming our sense of place, the small comforts of home and the familiar: the traditions we so love, like Suzanne Packer’s homespun, eloquent still life.”
CAROL K. DUMAS, Cape Codder, Febebruary 7, 2002
“Suzanne Packer has several new still life paintings in the exhibit. I was most impressed with “Still Life with Plums.”…. The bravura rendering of these objects and the fresh style make this an endearing composition.”
WILLIAM J. ADELMAN, JR., Falmouth Enterprise, December 2001
“Cottage Shadows, in 21 In Truro at the Cahoon Museum of American Art, Suzanne Packer’s impressionist oil on canvas, she took out the landscaping to emphasize the light. The work does show shadows, but more important is the uncanny iridescent light at the roofline. Many artists have talked about that silvery light that is so different in Truro and in Provincetown.
DARYL SALERNO, Cape Cod Community Papers, August 2000
“To say that Suzanne M. Packer paints “still life” would be misleading at best. Bold colors, feisty brush strokes, unusual angles and fabric that nearly ripple off the canvas, entice us into each lush, organic environment. There is hardly a “still” object in a fistful of flowers or a table laden with fruit, vegetables and an old pitcher. Each object seems to have a movement, a rhythm of its' own created by confident lines that vibrate with color.”
LOIS ATHERTON, Director, Sparrow House Museum, September 7, 1999
“If Van Gogh had a happier life he would have painted like you.”
MELISSA SOUTHWORTH, 1998
“Once your work was put up, the gallery was transformed into an explosion of positive color and feeling. The common strand that everybody is stating is what a joyful mood the paintings create. I’m honored as the director of the Market Barn Gallery to have your show.”
KEN CARSON, Director Market Barn Gallery, July 17, 1998
“The Note is a splendid, possibly great still life, not least because of superb, if subtle, use of plane and recession, almost unknown in still life painting.”
FRANK GETLEIN, Art Critic & Curator, 1997
“Flourishing: Paintings by Suzanne M. Packer is her ninth solo exhibition and it is one of great strength, maturity and exuberance…Flourishing was the only possible title.”
DEBORAH CARR, Cape Codder, June 26, 1997
“I was drawn into Suzanne’s lush environments of sinuous lines and fluid, brilliant color. Her paintings virtually drip with confidence and freedom.”
MAUREEN TWOHIG, Director Cahoon Museum of American Art, 1997
“Suzanne M. Packer’s oils are impressions done in a palette of muted colors. Her View From Uncle Tim’s features rapid brush strokes, close values, and a neat composition.”
WILLIAM J. ADELMAN, JR., The Falmouth Enterprise, Oct.1, 1996
“Summer Repast, is possibly the most effectively realized work… The painting is all color, light, and movement, and painted with the verve and spontaneity of an early Henri Matisse… or Pierre Bonnard…Little Pamet, …has to share top billing… This interesting and dynamic painting of swirling paint, contrasts of green, and striking composition at once reflects the Cape landscape and the artist’s vision.”
PETER L. KOENIG, Falmouth Enterprise, Nov.17, 1995
“Works which particularly struck my eye include a bright oil painting, Brewster Street Still Life, by Suzanne M. Packer.”
JOYCE EDINBERG, Cape Codder, February 28, 1995
“Some of the Cape’s most interesting artists are gathered in Women Creating… the curators, Suzanne M. Packer and Linda S. Young, are talented artists in their own rights.”
JANET BIRCHFIELD, Artistically Speaking, 99.9 WQRC, March 1995
“A Provincetown Art Association Class” Photo,
PAULA LERNER, New York Times, August 28, 1994
“Some of the names Cape art lovers will recognize in the juried part of the League at the Cape show are…Suzanne Packer…”
CINDY NICKERSON, Cape Cod Times, August 23, 1993
“La Marquesa, Mexico,…It’s a bold, life interpretation of a yucca plant, which she painted on site in the hills north of Mexico City.”
CINDY NICKERSON, Cape Cod Times, January 22, 1993