Susan Read Cronin was educated at Williams College where she developed her passion for art and design. Cronin studied in the 1990's with renowned sculptors Jane B. Armstrong and Walter Matia. She quickly developed the craft and tradition of working in bronze. 

Her traveling show entitled Fables, Foibles and Fairytales has traveled to eighteen museums around the country. She has had solo shows of her work at the Harrison Gallery in Williamstown, MA, The Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester, VT, The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center in West Rutland, VT, The Williams Club in New York City, Visions West Galleries in Denver, CO and Artisan Designs & Gallery 2 in Brattleboro, VT.

Her work has also been featured at the prestigious Copley Society of Boston, where she is a Copley Artist member, and in group shows at the National Sculpture Society based in New York City, and at Hunter Kirkland Contemporary in Santa Fe. 

Susan Read Cronin’s bronzes are held in numerous private and public collections including The Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont, The Madeira School in McLean, Virginia, and The Naples Beach Hotel and Golf Club, located in Naples, Florida.

She is the author of Bronze Casting in a Nutshell and serves on the Board of the Vermont Studio Center. She currently works in her home studio in Vermont, and has her pieces cast in foundries located in Vermont and Massachusetts.