BIO
Susan Joy Rippberger uses installation, video, and performance to explore ideas about gender, the transnational, inclusivity and home. Her practice is grounded in ethnographic research, social theory and spirituality. She has shown her work in the U.S., Mexico and Scotland in galleries, bookstore windows, and pop-up spaces that include parks, beaches, and street corners. Her playful approach to textiles, printed matter and electrical circuitry proposes a new way of seeing the everyday. Currently she is experimenting with printmaking as a narrative art form and social commentary, and with ceramics as an element in art psychotherapy.
Susan is also an HCPC registered Art Psychotherapist in private practice with a specialty in Nature-Based Art Psychotherapy. She offers creative and reflective therapeutic support rooted in connection, curiosity and care. Her therapeutic approach is collaborative, strengths-based, and deeply respectful of each person’s unique path. Through artmaking and/or engaging with art in nature, she supports clients in exploring their experiences, fostering wellbeing, and moving toward meaningful change. Susan has worked with children, teens and adults. Currently based in Scotland she offers inclusive, affirming art psychotherapy in person and online for English and Spanish speaking clients.