Susan passed away peacefully at home on Friday, December 16th.

Susan Helen Rozolaitis was born on December 29, 1947 in Auburn, Massachusetts. She attended Worcester State College. She graduated in 1969. She dedicated herself to creating the culture of her time as an advocate for social, racial and economic justice. For her, this is from her work in VISTA to fight poverty, to her political art, including her T-her shirt for children that says, “If you love me, don’t give me sugar.” has taken various forms. In the early 70’s she co-founded Worcester’s first food cooperative. Susan was an early proponent and distributor of botanical medicine, leading edible walks in the wild and identifying medicinal plants. I’ve been

In the early 1980s, Susan pursued her passion for learning anthroposophy, earning a degree in Waldorf education from the University of Antioch. She then completed her Master’s Degree in Special Education from Keene State University. She taught at her Waldorf School of Monadnock in Keene, New Hampshire. She then returned to Worcester, where she taught special education in Southbridge and other local school districts. She pointed out her VI civil rights violations when she saw them, regardless of their impact on her own career or her position in her teacher’s break room.

Always an artist and in need of change, Susan completed her MFA in Western Connecticut in 2007 and devoted herself to her painting. Inspired by her paintings and the charm of the Southwest, Susan moved to Arizona, where she taught on the Navajo Reservation, where she immersed herself deeply. In her own work and in the community, including the Lakota Waldorf School. A year later, she returned to Worcester, to her book collection, gardens, and her beloved home in the Crown Hill neighborhood. There she produced an enormous amount of work in a relatively short period of time. Blue Her Mountain in Manhattan This review from her master’s thesis exhibition held at her gallery captures the spirit of one of her early works, based on photographs she took in Bologna, Italy. I’m here.

“Susan Rozolaitis juxtaposes the spiky shapes of a tall potted cactus with scruffy red graffiti in her politically-pointed still life ‘Military is proud to kill innocents'” I’m here. It imbues the composition with an edgy, aggressive roughness reminiscent of the late Philip Gaston.

From this point on, Susan’s art and painting continued to evolve, incorporating her passion for fabrics and textiles into her paintings of dresses and jackets, easily categorized. Her art never slowed her activity or collection.

Above all, Susan was a devoted grandmother. With unparalleled meticulous care, she instilled in her granddaughters a deep love of beauty and the wonders of the natural world. It has to be one of the last people to leave the beach, especially in one of her favorite places, Wellfleet.

She is survived by her sisters Jean Rozolaitis of Warwick, NY; Helen Rozolaitis of Matapossett, Massachusetts; nephews Misha of Warwick, NY and Nikolai of Albany, NY; Leaving Violet and Avery in Brooklyn, STATE.

There will be a private ceremony, but you can send a commemorative donation to Pine Ridge Lakota Waldorf School https://lakotawaldorfschool.org/donations/