As a child, in New York, Susan Moore was always drawing. She got her first art degree from Queens College in painting. She then moved on to the New York Studio School. Along the way she picked up beadwork. One day, while reading a magazine with beadwork in it, she read about how to make glass beads. Susan began making glass beads and eventually started teaching bead making. During this time she got into fusing. Fusing is where two base layers of glass are put together in a kiln and once they reach the full fusing temperature, they melt together and become one. Susan then started teaching fusing. Her favorite parts about working with glass are the colors, the transparency of the glass, and the fat that glass is so solid and lasts a very long time. That is why she calls her pieces future artifacts.
      Susan wasn’t in New York all this time. She married a military man and for a while they lived on Fort Benning, Georgia, but neither of them really liked the heat. They then moved to Texas where they lived near his parents for a couple of years. They didn’t like the heat there either. Wanting to go to a new place, they moved to Alaska in 1995. Susan’s favorite part about Alaska is that it is beautiful, quiet, and open. She really likes that it is more open than other places.
      Susan creates beautiful glass plates and dishes. Many are inspired by the beauty of Alaska that is all around her. Once you’ve been to Alaska, you can see why someone would move there and end up staying.