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About Suzanne

Baltimore County  

Suzanne Coley is a 2023-2025 Folger Institute Fellow and a 2023-2024 Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Fellow. Her main artistic fields are printmaking, poetry, embroidery, and book arts. Suzanne Coley is the artist credited with pioneering the style of "couture textile books," which combines precise design with bold experimentation by incorporating couture sewing techniques into bookmaking, often using unique fabrics and embroidery to create layered, artistic volumes.… more

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Selected Artworks 2002 - 2023

For more than twenty years, I've been creating art that seeks to bring healing and change by examining what it means to be human.   My original poetry accompanied with paintings and innovative printmaking techniques have allowed me to explore human emotions of our time, and to capture human imperfections and strengths.




  • Look In Thy Glass
    Look In Thy Glass
    Mixed media fiber arts, 6.5" x 9", 2019 - page from handmade textile book Look In Thy Glass
  • 365 Painted Songs
    365 Painted Songs
    Painted Songs: In 2015, I created a book a day. This is an image of the books from January 2015. ** All books measure 8.75 x 11.75 x .5 inches, have at least 20 pages, and no two are the same.
  • Dreams
    Dreams
    mixed media fiber arts, 22 x 25 x 1 inches, 2017
  • Dreams
    Dreams
    mixed media fiber arts (book), 14 x 11 x .5 inches (closed), 2017
  • Mouth
    Mouth
    mixed media fiber arts,22 x 25 x 1 inches, 2017
  • Mouth
    Mouth
    mixed media fiber arts (book), 22 x 25 x 1 inches (opened), 2017
  • Hope
    Hope
    mixed media unique book with matching clamshell box, 15 x 13 x 1 inches, 2016-2017
  • Once Upon a Time
    Once Upon a Time
    mixed media fiber arts (book), 8.75 x 11.75 x .5 inches, 2015
  • Supersonic Realities
    Supersonic Realities
    mixed media fiber arts, 8.75 x 11.75 x .5 inches, 2015
  • Cygnets
    Cygnets
    Handmade Textile book page, 2017
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