Susan Elcox Biography

Susan learned to hook in the late 1980's. She was hooked by the ability to be creative with fiber without precise directions on how to develop pieces. One's artistic side is allowed to develop and she encourages that creativity in her students of today.

After developing a variety of pieces in different genres of hooking (pictorials, florals, geometrics, orientals and so on) Susan started teaching hooking as well as encouraging it through hosting of workshops. Susan is a certified McGown Rug Hooking Teacher and has also studied teaching under the Association of Traditional Hooking Artists of which she is a member. Click the link to "Classes" and you will find the latest listings where she is teaching. Private instruction is available as well at any time upon pre-arrangement.

Today, Susan's greatest passion is developing hooked pictures that at first fool the viewer into thinking they are painted. Once they take a closer look, and discover that it is fiber! She has shown a few of her pieces in galleries and wishes to do more of that in the future as well as participating in more art contests. In 2006, Susan's piece "Idaho State Capitol at Dusk" was selected out of over 200 pieces from around the country for a juried show that ended up showing 53 pieces in the Art Source Gallery in Boise, ID. In that same year she was selected to be one of 8 Idaho artists whose work divided the chapters in the Idaho State Controller's Report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006. 600 hardcopies and 135 CD-ROM's were distributed of this report both within and outside of Idaho. Appearing inside this report was "Idaho State Capitol at Dusk" as well as "In Grandmother's Garden", along with her biography.