Susan Tobey White defines herself as artist and educator. Having taught elementary art for 15 years she has the ability to bring concepts to their simplest form gaining amazing results from her adult students. Her acrylic and watercolor workshops, which she teaches in Maine during the summer and travels giving workshops through the winter, are for beginning students as well as those with more experience. Her canvases of vibrant dancers inspire smiles and laughter. Scenes of impassioned dancers in crowded dance halls, swinging to their own rhythms summon nostalgic times and practically dance right off the canvas. From professional dancers to dancers at heart Susan’s work is continually praised for the feeling of well being it evokes. Her love of Maine and the area she lives is evident in her colorful landscapes, seascapes and paintings of people working and playing. In the fall of 2010 a new series of over large food and giant vegetables began as a direct result of illustrating The Homeport Cookbook which was released in 2011. She welcomes commissions of a variety of themes favoring paintings of children playing and adults dancing. She has designed the 2004 and 2007 North Atlantic Blues Festival Poster and the 2008-2012 Maine Celtic Festival Poster. In the summer of 2002 after having taught elementary art for 15 years, Susan opened High Street Studio & Gallery in a historic building of downtown Belfast where she had a seasonal gallery and taught painting workshops. She currently teaches from the Susan Tobey White Studio, 134 Church Street also in Belfast, Maine. In 2018 She began a new Series of Lobstering Women of Maine which was on display at The Penobscot Marine Museum in 2019. The series continues. Her work is in private collections throughout the United States, in Canada, Europe and Australia.  Susan received her BA in Art Education at Southern Connecticut State College. She and her husband moved to Maine from Northeastern Connecticut in 1975. They purchased 40 acres of land, built their own home and raised all their food. (even to the point of grinding flour and making butter) They lived in that home for 12 years where they raised their 3 children. When education and proximity to schools became more of a concern they moved to the coastal community of Belfast.