Suzie Ferras was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up engulfed by San Francisco's unique creative energy and culture. She has been a creative artist since early childhood, and focused in the fine arts and the sciences academically throughout high school and college.

With a background in drawing, illustration, painting and sculpture, Suzie Ferras has been working in the arts for over 10 years as a fine artist, illustrator, arts educator, curator and community organizer. She is the head illustrator for the San Francisco based production company, Studio Bee, and her illustration work can be seen featured in educational broadcast shorts on Sesame Street. Suzie is passionate about volunteering her time and sharing her craft with the community. She designed and directed the installation of a children’s' maze as part of an Oakland community development project with California Assemblywoman, Wilma Chan. She has worked in the San Francisco Unified School District as an integrative art teacher, developing programs to bring art into science classes for students that would otherwise get no art in school. She works with Burlingame's fine art studio, Art Attack! as an educator, art director and program developer for their summer camp and after school programs. She has contracted to work with the Community College District of San Mateo County and her alma mater, Sacred Heart Cathedral College Prep as a fine arts educator.

Suzie has been one of many championing the live art movement in the San Francisco Bay Area, doing live art to live music regularly in and around San Francisco, collaborating with some of the Bay Areas finest local musicians. In 2008, she founded the art and music collective, Local 365, to facilitate collaboration and cohesion within local creative culture, while making the fine arts more accessible and tangible to local audiences.

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