With a background in drawing, illustration, painting and sculpture, Suzie Ferras has been working professionally in the arts for over 11 years as a fine artist, live artist, illustrator, arts educator, curator and event organizer. 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 visible and accessible to local audiences. She has exhibited art and/or has done live art with numerous venues locally and abroad, including The de Young Museum, The New York Stock Exchange, Sesame Street (as aired on PBS),The Palace of Fine Arts,  SFJAZZ, The San Francisco Jazz Heritage Museum and Yoshi’s SF.