Susie Brandt is based in Rockland, Maine and in the Southern Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. During much of the 90’s, she made large scale installation works with her artist/sister, Betsy Brandt and she continues to collaborate with others. Most recent projects involve communal raffle quilts and postcards. Brandt has curated and co-curated exhibitions of other artists including Warren Seelig, Lenore Tawney, Sandra Brownlee, and Rowland Ricketts.

Brandt’s work has been included in solo exhibitions at the University of Maryland, the International Fiber Art Fair at the Hangaram Art Museum in Seoul, Korea, the Grizzly Grizzly Gallery in Philadelphia, Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, NY and Project 1628, Baltimore, MD, Five Stumps was shown at The Delaware Center for Contemporary Art in Wilmington. Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA, the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts in Cedarburg, WI, Cardinal Space Gallery in Baltimore, MD, the Lewis Gallery, Portland Public Library in Portland, ME, Texas Tech University in Lubbock, and 33 Arts Center in Baltimore.

Her art is in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, and the Albany Institute of History and Art, among others. Brandt is the recipient of awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council and Creative Capital. She holds a BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts) and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) emeritus professor.

For two years, over the course of the pandemic, she worked remotely with 75 others to stitch 14 quilts to raffle for various causes. Many of those quilts comprised the exhibition Quilting in the Age of the Pandemic at Lake George Arts Project in Lake George, NY (2022) and Praxis Gallery in Cleveland, OH (2023) before they were raffled.