Susan Nettelbeck joined Calthorpe Associates in August of 2002 and has over twelve years experience in office/facilities management, human resources and accounting. She has experience in managing a variety of firms with small to large number of personnel.

Susan has a Bachelor's in Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in Painting. She has held numerous exhibitions in San Francisco and Oakland. She is the recipient of several grants from SFAI and a Peter Shoemaker Emeritus Scholarship in 1998.

Here is Susan's artistic introduction of herself -
"I am motivated by the abstract power that is apparent throughout the natural world. I interpret what I see in nature (in ourselves) perplexing definitions; capturing how many ways there are to look at our environment and to remember that we are all a part of the whole.

I use photos and Polaroids of rocks, cliffs, and hardened surfaces as well as the actual as points of reference. This for me relates as a part of our reality; the physical world-reality, the external being met by our waking self. However, the unconscious may see our personal existence as a part of the immaterial. The formation of a rock for example can show how we shape the material of our nature through out our life.

For me it is remembering what has been forgotten about our connection, the unity, and interdependence among all things living and unseen; embracing what is most feared, opening what has been closed, softening what has been hardened."

Prior to joining Calthorpe, Susan was Office/Facilities Manager with WebWare Corporation. She also has business office managerial experience with Sanchez, Lonchar & Flynn Communications, California College of Arts and Crafts, and Martha Schwartz.