Press - External Links 

The juried live exhibit opened in September 2024, and the virtual exhibition is online until the end of August 2025.

2024 WE’RE BACK!

Successes in Vanishing Circles - Live juried exhibition was September to November 2024.


The virtual tour is online. Visit the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Art Institute website.

Launch event for the 2024 annual juried exhibition - includes [rojected image of Neilson's Forest Gate painting. Link also to the artist page from the Lakehead Arts Integrated Research online exhibit HERE

2024- Excerpt from - A Publication of the Okanagan Institute, Editors - Karen Close and Laura Foster

2023 - Excerpt from - A Publication of the Okanagan Institute, Editors - Karen Close and Laura Foster

The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Art Institute mission is 

“Conservation Through Art Education” 

— art related to the appreciation of our natural environment. 


Neilson was artist in residence in a casita on the museum grounds from May 1 - 31, 2023


Residency Information Link

Artists for Conservation - External link to Neilson's personal page as a signature member, participating in annual exhibitions since 2020.

May 2021 Conservation Artist

April 2021 Artist Feature "The Golden Touch" by Sue Skinner, Kelowna, B.C.

Art & Nature Club Introduction Blog 2020

May 2020 - Article by Laura Lyall and Melanie Price

Creative painting process tutorial video. KIRA alumni contributions from home studios. made during 2020 quarantine.

Neilson was an artist in residence for the month of June 2019

Connect on Instagram @susanneilson.art