Farricielli, Susan
Ms. Farricielli, a sculptor and industrial designer, is currently managing partner of Kinetic Innovative Seating, LLC. Besides teaching at Yale, she has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Fairfield University, and Quinnipiac University. She was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. Ms. Farricielli has done industrial design work for American Standard, Black & Decker, Keeney Manufacturing, Stride Rite Shoes, and Reseal International. She received a Design Arts Award from the National Endowment for the Arts for a wheelchair design for the elderly. In 2006 she was a nominee for Connecticut Woman Innovator of the Year through the Connecticut Technology Council and received an award from Foresight Technologies for her wheelchair. Ms. Farricielli has completed private and public sculpture commissions for the cities of New Haven, Plainville, Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for Ohio State University.