Lynn owns Art Produce and Stone Paper Scissors, a public art/education company, and has lived and worked in San Diego as an artist and educator since 1979. 

As an arts educator, Lynn engages students and community members in the process of creative problem solving both in and outside the classroom.  She teaches classes and workshops throughout the county in schools, cultural centers and at her Stone Paper Scissors studio.  Classes range from multi-media after-school classes for children, to arts education workshops for teachers, to lecturing and collaborating with local colleges and universities on art in public spaces.  Lynn has been a California Arts Council Artist in Residence, and is an arts education consultant for UCSD’s Education Studies Department and the San Diego Unified School District.  Her current projects involve engaging refugee and new arrival students with community resources, gardening and art exhibitions.  She co-authored a resource book for teachers, “Object Lessons, Teaching Math Through The Visual Arts” in 2012.  Her sculptures and paintings have been in solo and group exhibits in various venues in San Diego and in Victoria, B.C.  She was selected the State Assembly District 39 representative for the “California Contemporary Artists 2007” exhibit at the State Capitol in Sacramento. 

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Art Produce and Lynn Susholtz featured in Public Art Review Magazine- "Food For Thought"  - June 2012.  This issue explores the theme of Food for Thought and how what we eat affects public art (and vice versa) on a global scale. We'll cover the topic from a holistic lens of the entire food cycle - revealing how public artists address the topics of growing and raising our food within fragile ecosystems, the infrastructure of the global food business, the culture of eating and sharing food within our communities, and ultimately the politics that influence our food system - again, all from the angle of how public artists shape and communicate these processes to their audiences.

San Diego Union-Tribune "All for Art, and Art for All"
By James Chute, July 8, 2011
"Like many artists, Lynn Susholtz engages in an 'art practice' that includes painting, sculpture and installation. Like some artists, Susholtz also operates a gallery and curates exhibitions of the work of other artists. But there are few other artists whose art practice also includes public art, education, community activism, and communal gardening, cooking, design and performance, to name a few entries on her seemingly endless list of art-related ventures ...".  Read the full article

The extremely cute Art Produce Gallery dog!

Lynn is currently working on various projects and recently completed Kalos, aluminum and steel entry gates at an affordable housing project, and Grandmother's Kitchen/ Grandfather's Garden, a visual culinary history and cultural archive of the City Heights neighborhood.

Lynn Susholtz, artist, educator and owner of Art Produce and Stone Paper Scissors, with Caren Holtzman, faculty member at UCSD's Education Studies Program announce their new resource book- "Object Lessons, Teaching Math Through the Visual Arts".  Published by Stenhouse Publishers, this book is for elementary education classroom teachers, arts educators and parents interested in learning about math concepts using art activities. The visual art focuses on contemporary art concepts and artists. A CD with images, reproducibles and visual art references is included. View book Stenhouse Publishers.