Susan Rogers is a sculptor artist, who grew up in Arlington, TX and is a graduate of North Texas State University. She later moved to Arizona in the early 90s and soon fell in love with the southwestern culture as the local landscape was characterized by warm tones, with a variety of textures, and earthy decors. Every place is special and has a different feel to it, and the energy in the air started to enlighten her artistic abilities and that when she decided to begin her journey as a sculptor artist using stained-glass, clay, metal work and mix media.

Her biggest inspiration came from the Native American Tribes, including Zuni, Apache, and Navajo that gave Susan the right exposure to their history, culture, ceremonies, artwork and ancient traditions which fired her love for making her own Kachinas, and eventually impelled her to create well detailed three-dimensional stained-glass figurines.

As per Susan “it is a unique process to perceive, just an idea of making a three- dimensional figures with stained glass. As soon as I see the patterns on the glass, I get different ideas running through my mind, where I visualize different characteristics and theme of the next figure. Every southwest figurine that I have made has a story to tell, and represent the spirit of nature like rain, crops, animals, ancestors and more”.