2025 - March
Planting Trees & Producing Art
2024 - October
Monopoly Queens Edition Ready To Serve A New Generation
https://queensledger.com/2024/10/08/monopoly-queens-edition-ready-to-serve-a-new-generation/
2024 - April
Forest Hills Times
Partnering for A Greener Forest Hills and Rego Park
https://foresthillstimes.com/2024/04/19/partnering-for-a-greener-forest-hills-rego-park/
2022 - September
Queens Scene - Meet Astoria
The Queens Gazette's Monthly Arts and Entertainment Magazine
2022 - March
Made in Queens makers celebrate Women’s History Month
It’s a celebration of women’s contributions to history, culture and society. As they honor and celebrate Women’s History Month — while embracing its true meaning — these self-made, Made in Queens (MiQ) makers were eager to share what this special moment means to them.
https://qns.com/2022/03/made-in-queens-celebrate-womens-history-month-2022/
2022 - February
Arches Paper Online Gallery
February 18th (cont'd)
2021 - May
NYC Makers Market - Local Makers Market from Queens. Through the support of Chashama and Queens Economic Development Corporation (Made in Queens), offering Queens small businesses an opportunity to have a Manhattan Store Front Location to offer their unique products.
2017 - August
Elmhurst Sculpture Garden - "The idea for this collaborative community project came after visual artist Susan Varo approached founder and Executive Director Yvonne Shortt for the under-served area."
https://www.timesledger.com/stories/2017/31/sculpturegarden_2017_08_04_q.html
- By Tammy Scileppi
2015 - September
Corona-based artist Susan Varo created her “Art Lives Here” commission in the shape of a dog house.
http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2015/38/artinter_2015_09_18_q.html
- By Tammy Scileppi
2015 - May-July
Varo said most of what she paints “reflects a specific and special moment in time before it’s gone, and sometimes, it’s all about the beauty or the feeling from it.” And her inspiration comes from the people she meets, her travels, and images that evoke creativity.
http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2015/24/redpipe_2015_06_12_q.html
- By Tammy Scileppi
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2015 - September
Last Saturday, September 19th, the sliver of shaded, grassy turf that’s carved out by the intersection of Justice Ave and 56th Ave in Elmhurst, Queens, was a hotspot for local passerby. What appeared from afar to pedestrians, Queens Center Mall patrons, and the like as a seemingly out-of-place, brightly painted doghouse, was in fact emerging artist Susan Varo’s own unique contribution to the second annual Queens Art Intervention (QAI).
http://www.renegadedigitalsolutions.com/#!blog/coh1
- By Danielle Burnham
2015 - August-October
In fact, Varo is rapidly gaining recognition throughout Brooklyn, as well. Her series in oil of Michael Jackson portraits, on display at Sanctuary Gallery in Bed-Stuy through the Fall, has generated quite a bit of local interest, and has helped put the gallery on the map.
2015 - May-July
Varo is quickly emerging along the frontier of the Queens art scene. Recently, pieces from her series Patterns in Nature were featured at the Red Pipe Café, Forest Hills’ own beacon of entrepreneurship and local supporter of the arts. In Red Dapple, the figure’s mane and tail were depicted in red, to tie it together with other pieces in the series.
http://www.renegadedigitalsolutions.com/#!blog/coh1
- By Danielle Burnham
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Published Poetry
2008 to 2015
Weekly local newspaper (check online for links and commentary)
2008
Art, in theory, is a product of the cognitive fluidity of the mind. Individual interpretations are vast and art is sometime viewed as the re-creation of life. When one views art-paintings in this sense he or she is involuntary, instinctively and instantly involved in communication, as thought patterns increase to embrace such expression. For Susan Varo, owner of My Works of Art, LLC, painting has moved from the background and has taken place as part of her landscape
- James Lisbon
Center Planet
1984
School newspaper illustration
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