Suzie Ferras was born in San Francisco, CA and grew up engulfed by San Francisco’s unique creative energy and culture. She has been a creative artist since early childhood, and focused in the fine arts and the sciences academically throughout high school and college.

With a background in drawing, illustration, painting and sculpture, Suzie Ferras has been working in the arts for over 11 years as a fine artist, illustrator, arts educator, curator and community organizer. She is the head illustrator for the San Francisco based production company, Studio Bee, and her illustration work can be seen featured in educational broadcast shorts on Sesame Street.

Suzie is passionate about volunteering her time & sharing her craft with the community. She works in the San Francisco Unified School District as an arts educator and integrative art teacher, striving to make the arts more accessible to local children and teens in her community. She has developed art education programs that integrate art into standard class curriculum (Science, History, English, Mathematics) for students that would otherwise get little to no art in school and provides local creative kids additional support in the arts that is so needed. She works with Burlingame’s fine art studio, Art Attack! as an educator, art director and program developer for their summer camp and after school programs. Suzie is a dedicated teacher and mentor to her students.

Suzie has been one of many championing the live art movement in the San Francisco Bay Area, doing live art to live music regularly in and around San Francisco, collaborating with some of the Bay Areas finest local musicians. In 2008, she founded the art & music collective, Local 365, to facilitate collaboration and cohesion within local creative culture, while making the fine arts more accessible and tangible to local audiences.

SUZIE HAS EXHIBITED &/OR DONE LIVE ART WITH: The de Young Museum, The New York Stock Exchange, Palace of Fine Arts, SFJAZZ, Galería de la Raza, 111 Minna Gallery, Space Gallery, Yoshi’s SF, The Jazz School, The Exploratorium, The Red Poppy Art House, Sesame Street, Fat Cat NYC, Green Party SF Campaign Headquarters 2008, Power to the Peaceful Festival, Haight Street Fair, Jazz at Pearl’s, Coda, Anna’s Jazz Island, Madrone Art Bar, Balazo 18 Gallery, Cafe Revolution, Art SF, The Condor, The Royale, Grant & Green, Bruno’s, Cafe Du Nord, Club Deluxe, 1015 Folsom, Club 6, Socha, Makeout Room, Art Attack!, Pacifica Fog Fest, New Door, MAPP.

SUZIE HAS WORKED WITH MANY FABULOUS MUSICIANS INCLUDING: The Jazz Mafia, Marcus Shelby, Jaz Sawyer & Pursuance Records, Mochipet & Daly City Records, Airto Moreira, Roy Hargrove, Faye Carole, Lavay Smith, Classical Revolution, Spaceheater, Felonious, 8 Legged Monster, High Society & Horace-Scope, Mitch Marcus, Supertaster, The Park, Mike Boo, Teeko & 4OneFunk, Cikee, Lady Fingaz, Mophono, E-Da-Boss, Dublin, DJ Aspect, Mike Olmos, Kasey Knudsen, The Genie, Seneca, 40 Love, Ren The Archeologist, and many others