Susan Mayhew

Adult Touring Docent skilled at retaining and presenting information on new exhibits and creating an interactive and engaging tour atmosphere for visitors of all ages.

Offering 12 years of positive performance in museum environments and extensive knowledge of museum collections ranging from Ancient Mayan sculpture to Modern works.

Focus in introducing emerging local Colorado Arts to show at the museum. Helped with arranging social times with with visiting artists

Welcoming and personable with a great eye for detail and commitment to excellence.

• Collaborated with team of 15 in the development of a new approach to engaging young people in Art.
• Worked with children from primary school to high school - introducing the various groups
• Achieved great success by effectively helping with upgrading local systems, for the team to introduce new tracking systems to Docents needing ways to account for credits earned from working with diverse visitor groups.

• NAACP of Boulder Colorado
• Team at St John's in Boulder to join with local to promote EDI practices

Painting:

• Starting in grammar school, I studied with a local artist in New York with my sister. I started with watercolors of our house and the rocks in Maine.
• As I entered high school, I was picked to study with a special group learning/practicing oil painting. The group was set up like a 19th art class: we visited museums in New York where we were allowed to sketch the Masters
• Later in High School, I became familiar with the vast number of women artists who became famous but had been ignored. I participated in a small show of acrylic painting after the work of the Ninth Street Group
• After college, I worked at the American Arts Gallery in Soho. There I learned so much from the owner of the gallery who was a well-known artist in his own right. There I worked on acrylics and cyanotype (an art form that is accessible to 'artists' from little children to professionals)

Recently I've been able to work with inner city children in Denver. Focusing on primary school children, I've been able to work with Spanish-speaking young visitors. Recently we went to the DAM's collection of works by Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo. As a black artist of note, Boafo's collection at the Denver Art Museum captured our interest right away, his paintings were done solely by finger painting. Our little group of 'artists' were anxious to get back to art class where they made beautiful art with fingers and water color paints.