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After graduating from Harvard in 1988, Susan Arena came to the Adham Center with a grant from Harvard's Visual and Environmental Studies Department to continue her work in painting. At the Adham Center, she provided the design leadership for the Adham Center's annual newsletter, The Bulletin of the Adham Center, hard copy predecessor of AdhamOnline. Although the recent exhibition in New York was her first solo show in the USA, Arena mounted her very first solo show in Cairo in the fall of 1990 at the US Cultural Center. Her Cairo show reflected her work in Egypt, in which she approached Islamic calligraphy and Moghul miniature painting from a modern and painterly perspective.

Arena received an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University School of Art in 1995, traveled extensively in India, and returned to teach art at Yale from 1997, commuting from New York until 2001. In that year, she and her husband, television producer Jonathan Blaugrund, moved to Los Angeles. Her son, Joseph Lee Blaugrund, was born in August 2001.