Stone Paper Scissors has been creating award winning art projects for public agencies, schools, business associations and communities, since 1994. Owner/artist Lynn Susholtz integrates community voice and vision into the cultural and physical landscape through art and education. Projects have included the planning of public spaces, developing public arts initiatives for neighborhoods, collaborating with design teams, integrating art into capital projects, and fabricating sculptural works. Commissions for public and private spaces, range from urban storefront improvements to playscapes for children to the design of community gardens.
In The News
SDSU professors’ ‘Small Acts’ exhibition packs big, bold thoughts into pint-sized packages
By Karla Peterson March, San Diego Union Tribune, March 26, 2022 6:02 AM PT
Excerpt:
"In “Object Lessons,” San Diego artist Lynn Susholtz uses illustrations from a 1964 grade-school primer to examine her own ideas about what it means to be queer, and what the artists behind the illustrations might have been saying about queer life in the still-closeted 1960s." Read more...
By Karla Peterson March, San Diego Union Tribune, March 26, 2022 6:02 AM PT
Excerpt:
"In “Object Lessons,” San Diego artist Lynn Susholtz uses illustrations from a 1964 grade-school primer to examine her own ideas about what it means to be queer, and what the artists behind the illustrations might have been saying about queer life in the still-closeted 1960s." Read more...
Lynn's work featured in Indoor/Outdoor, a collaborative exhibition
Indoor/Outdoor explores how the different environments of Sweden and Southern California inform
the ways we use indoor and outdoor space. Featuring the work of Southern California artists from
the Feminist Image Group (FIG) and Swedish artists from Krogen Amerika.
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Indoor/Outdoor explores how the different environments of Sweden and Southern California inform
the ways we use indoor and outdoor space. Featuring the work of Southern California artists from
the Feminist Image Group (FIG) and Swedish artists from Krogen Amerika.
Read more...
Artist and educator Lynn Susholtz, a mainstay of North Park for decades, sees the neighborhood as her canvas - By Martina Schimitschek, Voice of San Diego - November 16, 2018
"Lynn Susholtz has a citizen artist logo with a raised fist holding a paint brush. But for Susholtz, who embodies the term citizen artist, a superhero would also be an apt symbol."
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"Lynn Susholtz has a citizen artist logo with a raised fist holding a paint brush. But for Susholtz, who embodies the term citizen artist, a superhero would also be an apt symbol."
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Community Construct
A process-oriented work that reveals the hidden creative potential of collective action
Lynn Susholtz & Anne Mudge
In an installation at California Center for the Arts Escondido visitors engaged in the process of accretion, contributing small forms to create a collective sculpture with simple materials, straws and pipe cleaners.
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A process-oriented work that reveals the hidden creative potential of collective action
Lynn Susholtz & Anne Mudge
In an installation at California Center for the Arts Escondido visitors engaged in the process of accretion, contributing small forms to create a collective sculpture with simple materials, straws and pipe cleaners.
Read more...
Mapping Home: Land/Water/Place
A collaborative art exhibit exploring personal and cultural stories of home and migration. The project is facilitated by Lynn Susholtz (Stone Paper Scissors) in collaboration with the Karen Organization of San Diego, UCSD Education Studies Department Partners at Learning Program. Read more... |
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You Are Home - New Public Art Commission Installed!
Affordable housing for LGBT seniors is a celebration of community spirit, pride and culture. The artwork is a colorful and festive celebration of life and light, changing throughout the day and night with the natural cycles of sun and stars.
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Affordable housing for LGBT seniors is a celebration of community spirit, pride and culture. The artwork is a colorful and festive celebration of life and light, changing throughout the day and night with the natural cycles of sun and stars.
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Public Art Commission Installed!
Facade/Screen Wall created for transitional housing project in the East Village District of Downtown San Diego, at 1435 Imperial Avenue. The 63-unit affordable apartment project provides SRO/efficiency units, targeting Special Needs homeless population.
This project was awarded a 2017 Orchid for Public Art from the San Diego Architectural Foundation!
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Facade/Screen Wall created for transitional housing project in the East Village District of Downtown San Diego, at 1435 Imperial Avenue. The 63-unit affordable apartment project provides SRO/efficiency units, targeting Special Needs homeless population.
This project was awarded a 2017 Orchid for Public Art from the San Diego Architectural Foundation!
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Community Development in the Context of Art: North Park and the Citizen Artist
Authors: Lynn Susholtz and Leslie Ryan
"In the Spring of 2015 I was asked by Julie Voelker-Morris, co-editor of CultureWork, to write an article about my involvement as an artist in the redevelopment of North Park. After revisiting many conversations with Leslie Ryan, we co-authored, "Community Development in the Context of Art: North Park and the Citizen Artist". It is a beginning of our "non-manifesto for the arts". Maybe you will see a piece of your history...? - Lynn Susholtz Read more...
Authors: Lynn Susholtz and Leslie Ryan
"In the Spring of 2015 I was asked by Julie Voelker-Morris, co-editor of CultureWork, to write an article about my involvement as an artist in the redevelopment of North Park. After revisiting many conversations with Leslie Ryan, we co-authored, "Community Development in the Context of Art: North Park and the Citizen Artist". It is a beginning of our "non-manifesto for the arts". Maybe you will see a piece of your history...? - Lynn Susholtz Read more...
Culture Report: The North Park Building Where You Can Eat, Mingle, Create, and Vote
By Kinsee Morlan, Voice of San Diego - May 10, 2016
"When Lynn Susholtz first bought the big building at University and Herman avenues in North Park, she knew exactly what she wanted the former grocery store to become – a place for the community and culture to come together." Read more...
By Kinsee Morlan, Voice of San Diego - May 10, 2016
"When Lynn Susholtz first bought the big building at University and Herman avenues in North Park, she knew exactly what she wanted the former grocery store to become – a place for the community and culture to come together." Read more...
