Hampshire Investments Ltd. and Ix Arts Foundation
Board member
Charlottesville, VA
Susan Krischel Kuttner was born in Denver, Colorado. She moved to New York City in 1982. After working in the fashion industry for several years, she attended Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She spent 17 years as a criminal prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office under the iconic leadership of Robert M. Morgenthau. In 2012, she retired as Bureau Chief of the Special Investigations Bureau for the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor where she specialized in investigating and prosecuting mid-to-large size international narcotics trafficking organizations. That same year, she moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, to be with Ludwig Kuttner, whom she married in January 2024. She is Founder and President of the Board of the Ix Arts Foundation, a non-profit community arts organization that houses Virginia’s first permanent, immersive art museum, hosts multi-cultural events and festivals, and runs a weekly farmers market. She also serves on the Board of Hampshire Investments Ltd. and Friends of Charlottesville Downtown. She enjoys reading, playing piano, and traveling.
Offer
Community organizer dedicated to using arts and culture to shape the physical and social character of a place to spur economic development, promote enduring social change and improve the physical environment in a manner that inspires creativity, fosters collaboration, and makes the arts accessible to everyone without regard to social or economic status.
NEED
Building trust and educating immigrant, minority and low income communities on how to make the environment a key priority in their lives.
Call-to-Action
To develop accessible and affordable community oriented initiatives that educate and motivate culturally, politically and economically diverse groups of people to work together towards building a healthy physical and social environment that is welcoming to all.
