Susan Harbage Page

Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Susan Harbage Page has spent her life crossing borders, both literally and figuratively. Born in Ohio, she moved to North Carolina and thus experienced both sides of the Mason-Dixon line at an early age. The U.S.-Mexico Border Project, 2007-present, the major corpus of Harbage Page’s work has unfolded in three major parts including 1) the “Anti-Archive of Trauma on the U.S.-Mexico Border” of circa 1,000 found objects such as shoes, religious items, and passports left behind by border crossers, 2) 30,000 photographic images of the immediate border area along the Rio Grande in Texas showing the increased militarization and the paths that refugees walk 3) over 15 site-specific actions and interventions in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas that address more personal conversations about representation and privilege that Susan has as she walks, canoes and bikes the border to bear witness in a place where many people cannot walk safely.  

Harbage Page holds a master’s degree in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute, 2004, a Master’s Degree in Music from Michigan State University, 1983, and a certificate of knowledge of the Italian Language, from the Universitá Per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy, 1984. Her work can be found in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Art, the Israel Museum of Art in Jerusalem, the Nasher Museum of Art, the Mint Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, and the Weatherspoon Museum of Art, as well as others.