OBJECTIVE

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To paint and photograph the natural world.

 

EDUCATION

 

From 2010 until 2018, Rouillier studied painting with Dr. James Conlon, Professor Emeritus, University of South Alabama Art Department. She also studied painting with Billie Sheldon at the John C. Campbell Folk School, and with Ginger Woechan, at Mobile City’s Lavretta Arts Center.

 

SOLO PAINTING EXHIBITIONS

 

• Featured Artist, Exhibition of Bird Images and Paintings, Mobile Art Council, Mobile, Alabama. November, 2016.

 

• Featured Artist, Exhibition of Bird Images and Paintings, The Rodning Gallery, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama.  March-April, 2017.

 

• Featured Artist, Southern Veranda, Fairhope Alabama. February, 2018.

 

• Featured Artist, Paintings and Bird Images, Dauphin Island Heritage and Arts Council, Dauphin Island, Alabama.  April, 2019.

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• Featured Artist, Bird Images, Paintings and Books, Bellingrath Gardens, Feb-March, 2021.

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GROUP PAINTING EXHIBITIONS

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• Exhibitor of Paintings, Plein Air of Mobile Exhibit:  University of South Alabama Library, Mobile, Alabama. April, 2024

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• Exhibitor of Paintings, Members Show, Mobile Arts Council, Mobile, Alabama. June, 2023.

 

• Exhibitor of Paintings, Mobile Arts Council, Blue Mind Show, Mobile, Alabama. March, 2023.

 

• First place, Painting, Two Seagulls, Smithsonian traveling exhibit: Water Water Everywhere, Five Rivers Delta Resource Center, Mobile, Alabama. February, 2017.

 

• Exhibitor of Bird Paintings, Mobile Arts Council, Mobile, Alabama. June, 2018.

 

• Exhibitor and Vendor, Bird Images and Paintings, St. Francis Outdoor Art Show, Dauphin Island, Alabama. April, 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019.

 

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PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS

 

• Contributor of Images, Alabama Coastal Birdfest Opening Night PowerPoint Presentation, Five Rivers Delta Resource Center, Mobile, Alabama. April, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019,2021.

 

• Featured Artist, A Display Room of Bird Photographs by Susan Rouillier, Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center, Mobile, Alabama. September and October, 2018.

 

• Exhibitor and Vendor, Bird Images and Paintings, St. Francis Outdoor Art Show, Dauphin Island, Alabama. April, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

 

MAJOR BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY LECTURES

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• Speaker and Presenter, Birds of Alabama, Sierra Club Meeting, Mobile, Alabama, February, 2024

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• Speaker and Presenter, Birds of Alabama and South Mobile, Alabama Authors Day, Five Rivers, March, 2024. .

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• Speaker and Presenter, Birds of Alabama, Mobile Botanical Gardens, Mobile, Alabama, August, 2022.

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• Speaker and Presenter, Birds of Alabama, City of Daphne, Alabama, supported by The Alabama Humanities Alliance, a state affiliate for the National Endowment for the Humanities,  April, 2022.

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• Speaker and Presenter of Birds of Alabama, on IMAX Screen in IMAX Theatre, Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center, Mobile, Alabama. September 15, 2018

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• Presentation/Lecture of Bird Photos and Paintings, Odyssey USA, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama.  March 22, 2018.

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• Presenter, Birds of Alabama and Costa Rica, Riverside Community Meeting, Mobile, Alabama. August, 2017

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• Speaker and Presenter, Birds of Alabama, Costa Rica, and Panama, Mobile Bay Audubon Society’s Monthly Meeting, Mobile, Alabama. November, 2017.

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PHOTOGRAPHY and COMPETITIONS

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• Featured Photographer, Wild Things, Bird Images, Alabama the Beautiful Magazine, February, 2022. https://alabamathebeautifulmagazine.com/February2022/?rm_fn=Susan&rm_ln=Rouillier&rm_e=srou98%40yahoo.com

 

• Best in Show, Magazine Cover, Weeks Bay Wildlife Refuge Photo Contest, Two Egrets, Mobile, Alabama. 2015.

 

• First Place, Weeks Bay Wildlife Refuge Photo Contest, Great Blue Heron in Flight, Mobile, Alabama. 2015.

 

• Third Place, The People’s Choice, Cathedral Square Gallery, Egrets on Goat Island, Mobile Alabama. June, 2016.

 

• Honorable Mention, Alabama Ornithological Society Photography Competition, Canada Goose Shielding its Baby, Mobile, Alabama. September, 2017.

 

• First Place Fauna: Butterfly on Milk Weed; First Place Flora: Cahaba Lillies in the Delta; and First Place Habitat: Misty Morning in the Delta, Weeks Bay Wildlife Refuge Photo Contest, Weeks Bay, Alabama. May, 2017.

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LITERARY ARTS

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South Mobile and Beyond – Colorful Poetry Photobook from Near and Far, by Susan Rouillier released in November, 2023. Includes her selected images and poems from the South Mobile area and other countries: Brazil, Australia, and Cuba. She is very grateful to Frye Gaillard for writing the foreword to this book. It is available on Amazon and locally at Mobile Botanical Gardens, and The Dauphin Island Art Museum.

 

South Mobile Wildlife – A New Little Photobook in Full Color, by Susan Rouillier released in May, 2022, reached #27 in Nature Poetry on Amazon. It is available locally at Mobile Botanical Gardens, and The Dauphin Island Art Museum.

 

South Mobile Birds – Poems and Images from the Alabama Gulf Coast, by Susan Rouillier released in June, 2021, reached #1 in Nature Poetry on Amazon on June 29, 2021. It is available locally at Mobile Botanical Gardens, The Dauphin Island Art Museum, and Bellingrath Gardens. 

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South Mobile – 1699-2018, by Susan Rouillier released in June, 2018, has been well received. It is currently for sale in the Maritime Museum of Mobile, the IMAX and Exploreum in Mobile, The Haunted Bookstore in Mobile, and Page and Palette Bookstore in Fairhope, Alabama. Because of this contribution, “Susan Rouillier Day” was declared by the Mobile City Council in June, 2018

 

​Japan, Vignettes by a Southern Lady Abroad, by Susan Rouillier, details experiences in Japan while on a Fulbright Memorial Scholarship to set up a joint ecological project between Meiji Gankuen High School and the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science in Mobile, Alabama. 2016

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Video Call Activities With Children: A Collection of Fun, Interactive, Educational Activities using Skype, FaceTime or Video Call, by Susan Rouillier, 2015. This book has activities for parents, grandparents, and others who are living away from family to use to engage their young relatives on Facetime and other Video calling apps. 

 

Hillcrest Writers, Visions in Words, Rouillier contributed essays and edited the collection of poetry and short stories of the Hillcrest Writer’s to create and publish this book.  Rouillier was the founder and led the Hillcrest Writers for ten years - 2010-2020.

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Poem, Feet, Poetry by Moonlight, Mobile Botanical Gardens, October, 2017.

 

Poem, Unseen Wonders, Poetry by Moonlight, Mobile Botanical Gardens, October 2018. 

 

Feature Article with images, The Magestic Great Blue Heron, Currents Magazine, Summer, 2023

 

Feature Article with images, Osprey, Currents Magazine, Aug, 2023

 

Feature Article with images from various Mobile archives, A History of Magnolia Racecourse, Currents Magazine, Spring, 2024

 

Feature Article with images, The Man who Saved the Pelicans, A Tribute to Wilson Gaillard,  Currents Magazine, Summer, 2024

 

Feature Article with images, BYC, Pirate Spirit, The Early days of the Bucaneer Yacht Club, Currents Magazine, Winter, 2024

 

Feature Article with images, from the Tate family, If These Walls Could Talk, Currents Magazine, Winter, 2024

 

Feature Article with images, Love at First Bite, A Romantic Journey with Blue Crabs in Mobile Bay, Currents Magazine, Fall, 2024

 

Feature Article with images, Silenced Sanctuary, Currents Magazine, Spring, 2025

 

Feature Article with images, Inked Histories: Bienville’s Tattoos and Dog River’s Kings Warehouse, Currents Magazine, Summer, 2025

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CONTACT

 

WEBSITE:

     susierou.com

EMAIL

     info@susierou.com,  susanrouillier@gmail.com

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PERSONAL

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Susan Rouillier has been drawn to nature all her life. At the University of Melbourne she was a Commonwealth Scholar and did invertebrate research at Wilson’s Promontory in Australia.  She graduated with a biology degree and went on to teach in Australia at Footscray Institute of Technology, in Japan at Meiji Gankuen High School, and in the United States at ASMS and at the University of South Alabama.

Rouillier set up a joint ecological project between Meiji Gankuen High School in Kitakyushu, Japan and the Alabama School of Math and Science in Mobile, Alabama, funded by the Fulbright Master Teacher Program. 

 

Today Rouillier lives on Mobile Bay where she writes, photographs and paints the natural world of the vast and unique Mobile delta. She has traveled to Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Canada, other parts of the United States, and Australia to photograph birds and other wildlife.

 

She has two children and grandchildren, all well-loved.

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ART PATRONS

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GOLD PATRONS: 

 

Ms. Jennifer Bozarth, Denver, Colorado

Mr. and Mrs. Victor Lejeune, Daphne, Alabama

Mr. and Mrs. Hank Caddell, Mobile, Alabama

Mr. and Mrs. Tony Collier, Mobile, Alabama

Dr. Eugene Jackson, Mobile, Alabama

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Jacobs, Houston, Texas

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PATRONS:

Dr. and Dr. Mike and Melinda Oliver

Dr. and Mrs. Roy Daigle

Dr. and Mrs. Nick Southall

Dr. Eugene Jackson

Dr. and Mrs. James Conlon

Mr. Kris Conlon

Mr. Carl Thomas

Sister Kimiko Matsushita, CND, Kitakyushu, Japan

Mrs. Lauridana Tavella, Melbourne, Australia

Mr. Greg Smith

Mrs. Sylvia Osborne

Mr. and Mrs. Bob Grubbs

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Oliver

Mr. C. J. Small, Councilman, Mobile Alabama

Mrs. Kathy Windom

Ms. Phylis Logsdon

Mrs. Nancy Goodman

Mrs. Christine Connell

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Jacobs

Mrs. Patty Paris

Mrs. Joyce Thompson Stevens

Mr. and Mrs. Ken Richards

Mr. Barry McPhail

Mr. Carl Clark