Susan Harbage-Page Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Susan Harbage-Page
Susan Harbage Page: Mapping Borders, Bearing Witness Born in Greenville, Ohio, in 1959, Susan Harbage Page’s artistic journey has been profoundly shaped by a lifelong engagement with liminal spaces – the edges of nations, the thresholds between cultures, and the quiet territories within personal experience. From her early childhood spent navigating the diverse landscapes of North Carolina, she developed an acute awareness of displaceme
nt, migration, and the complex interplay of identity. This foundational understanding informs her current work, which powerfully interrogates issues of race, gender, immigration, and the very nature of archives – both physical and conceptual. Page’s formal artistic training provided a robust framework for her explorations. She began with a strong grounding in music, earning Bachelor of Music (B.M.) and Master of Music (M.M.) degrees i…
