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Hsiu-Fang Susan Liu (陳秀芳)

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Hsiu-Fang Susan Liu (陳秀芳)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Hsiu-Fang Susan Liu
  • Chinese: 陳秀芳
  • Era: 1948
  • Geography: Tainan, Taiwan
  • Core roles: engineer, artist
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. Key Member in the Committee of “Festivals of Nations”/St. Paul/MN /Taiwanese American Association/Minnesota Chapter 1987-2019

Education

  • Tunghai Univ. (東海大學) — 1970 — BA , Sociology
  • Washington U., St. Louis — 1976 — MS, Social Work
  • DePaul U, Chicago — 1982 — Computer Science

Employment

  • CCF (基督教兒童基金會) — Social Worker — (1970-1973) — Tainan Theological College and Seminary (台南神學院) — Teaching Assistant — (1973-1974) — Blue Cross and Blue Shield — Computer Programmer — (1981-) — St. Paul Co/Travelers — Computer Programmer/Analyst — (1984-2006) — Community — Taiwanese American Association, Minnesota Chapter - Festivals of Nations Committee, St. Paul, MN — Key Member — Taiwanese American Archives — Co-Founder and Active Member (Articles, Outstanding Taiwanese American & Website Management Committees)

Family

  • Daughter: Karen
  • Son: Benjamin

Timeline

  • 1948 — Born in Tainan, Taiwan
  • 1970 — BA Sociology, Tunghai University (東海大學)
  • 1970–1973 — Social worker, CCF (基督教兒童基金會), Tainan
  • 1973–1974 — Teaching assistant, Tainan Theological College and Seminary (台南神學院)
  • 1976 — MS Social Work, Washington University, St. Louis
  • 1981– — Computer programmer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield
  • 1982 — Computer Science studies, DePaul University, Chicago
  • 1984–2006 — Computer programmer / analyst, St. Paul Companies / Travelers
  • 1987–2019 — Key member, “Festivals of Nations” Committee, Taiwanese American Association, Minnesota Chapter (St. Paul, MN)
  • Co-founder and active member, |Taiwanese American Archives (Articles, Outstanding Taiwanese American & Website Management Committees)

Deepen-X09132337-1 check (2026-09-14)

Sources

Deepen-X09112100-13 check (2026-09-11)

  • All TAH #83 facts remain absorbed (see Deepen-X19 note above). Additional Minnesota-community context link, following the established pattern used for her St. Louis and Chicago years: |University of Minnesota Taiwanese Student Association — Taiwanese student community in the Twin Cities during her St. Paul residency (1987–2019). No vault pages exist for CCF, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, St. Paul/Travelers, Tunghai, or Wash U — no links invented.

Network

  • |PCT — TAH Who’s Who
  • |History of TAA Minnesota Chapter — Festivals of Nations committee context
  • |TAA Minnesota participation in Festival of Nations — documented committee involvement
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-83-hsiu-fang-liu||TAH Who’s Who #83]] — source profile
  • |TAA in Greater St. Louis — community context for her St. Louis years (M.S. Social Work, Washington University, 1976)
  • |TAA of Greater Chicago — community context for her DePaul University computer-science studies (1982)
  • Deepen-X19 check (2026-09-11): all TAH #83 facts (CCF, 台南神學院, Blue Cross, St. Paul/Travelers 1984–2006, Festivals of Nations 1987–2019, Taiwanese American Archives co-founder, children Karen and Benjamin) already absorbed; TAH #25 interview-authorship and Bob Cheng portrait cross-links verified against those vault pages.

Vault records (deepen pass 2026-09-10)

  • Oral-history interviewer — author of the TAH #25 彭明敏 Prof. Ming Min Peng interview, cross-confirmed on |Prof. Ming Min Peng’s page: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourfootsteps-25||TAH #25 (陳秀芳訪談)]]
  • Portrait artist — painted portrait #35 of |Bob Cheng, commemorated in TAH encyclopedia #749 (追思) and #300, per Bob Cheng’s vault page

Role in the Community (Deepen-X10080951-2, 2026-10-09)

Credited artist across the TAH “Footsteps” painting series. A fresh ZH+EN grep across the corpus shows Liu is the named artist on at least 17 image records in the taiwaneseamericanhistory.org “Footsteps / Our Footsteps” series, each titled “by Artist Susan Hsiu-fang Liu (陳秀芳)” — this is the single largest footprint of any Tier1 artist in the corpus and was previously only partially absorbed (Bob Cheng portrait only). The works, by depicted subject/year: |Taiwanese American Museum 台美博物館 (2013), |Festival of Nations – Minnesota 萬國節-明尼蘇達 (2012), |Race for Cure 療愈之跑 (2013), |Arriving in America 到達美國 (2013), |Departing from Taiwan 要離開台灣 (2013), |Student Life 學生生活 (2014), |Little League Tournament 少棒賽 (2013), |NATWA Annual Conference 北美洲台灣婦女會年會 (2015), |Weddings of Second Generation 第二代的婚禮 (2014), |A Tribute to Jeremy Lin 向林書豪致敬 (2015), |Tsai Ing-wen’s US Visit 蔡英文訪美 (2015), |Remembering Prof. Wen-Chen Chen 紀念陳文成教授 (2018), |Charlene Chen with Farmers in Kenya (2019), |Prof. Yuan Tseh Lee Receiving the Nobel Prize 李遠哲博士領取諾貝爾獎 (2018), |Prof. Ming Min Peng 彭明敏教授 (2019), |Andrew Yang in 2020 U.S. Presidential Election (2020), |Dr. Bob Cheng 鄭寶鼎博士, Founder of T.A. Archives (2020).

Festival of Nations cultural exhibition — core “死黨” team member. 曾啟明’s |明州台美人百年大事 (2015) and 吳朱實’s |點滴回顧明州文化展 (2014) place her inside the Minnesota Taiwanese Association’s Festival-of-Nations Taiwan booth design team from 1990 onward, alongside 楊日信/陳玲琇, 蔡友仁/吳朱實, 賴瑞宏, 張麗惠 and 王明基. 吳朱實 credits her directly: “如果沒有秀芳，台灣文化展不會有今日的成果” — she began painting for the cultural exhibition in 1992, moved to murals, and built the Taiwan booth’s winning entries. Her own account is |台灣同鄉會在明州萬國節的文化展 (2017).

Commissioned muralist in Minnesota public/campus space. 曾啟明’s chronology records two large murals she was commissioned to paint and unveiled: the Asian- nations mural for the University of Minnesota Asian Students Association at Coffman Memorial Union (March year, per the chronology), and a world-landmarks mural at Century College’s多元文化中心 (August year, per the chronology). Both events are dated only by month within the chronology — HOLD: exact years not stated in the source.

Community award and writing. Received the Minnesota Taiwanese Association’s first 傑出貢獻獎 (Outstanding Contribution Award, Taiwan culture / community welfare) in January 2006, cited for her community service and Festival-of-Nations cultural exhibitions (|明州台美人百年大事). Her essays in the corpus: |談繪畫 — 我與台美人 (2014) on painting and the Taiwanese American community, and |承先啟後 – 繼續Bob的遺志 (2020) continuing Dr. Bob Cheng’s work after his death. She is also a listed participant in |明州「城市探險到台灣」(2016) and appears in the people index of |花轎記 (2017) — the flower sedan chair (花轎) her garage housed, per 吳朱實’s account.

Deepen-X10100315-10 check (2026-10-10)

  • 2016 Festival-of-Nations 十二生肖 exhibition, credited in 湯原銘’s account. |負責2016明州萬國節台灣文化展的心路歷程 (2016) documents the Folklore-and-Fairytales theme year: the central oil painting telling the 12-zodiac story was composed by 育佳 and painted by Felix, with 秀芳 and 光生 assisting, and 秀芳 also appears in the coordination group (啓明, 原銘, 秀芳) for the twelve individual zodiac paintings drawn by eleven Minnesota artists. This corroborates her continuous role on the cultural-exhibition design team through the 2010s, consistent with the 1990-onward record in |明州台美人百年大事.
  • Named “in particular” in the UCSD Taiwan Studies Center 2022 year-end message. |A Year-end Message from the Founding Director (2022) singles her out (“and in particular, Susan Liu”) from the two-year transitional team that incorporated the Taiwanese American Archives into the Center website and transferred related photo albums to the Geisel Library’s digital resources — the strongest documentary confirmation of her Archives website-management role beyond the TAH Who’s Who entry.
  • Her painting reproduced in a survey work. An oil painting of 留學生要離開台灣的情景, by 陳秀芳 (2013), is reproduced in |美國台灣移民簡史 (許維德, 2017) — her work used as illustrative material in a published migration-history survey.
  • Footsteps #35 (Bob Cheng portrait, 2020) is now linked directly: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/footsteps-35||Footsteps #35 — Dr. Bob Cheng 鄭寶鼎博士 (2020)]].
  • False-positive checked: the “李秀芳” (soprano/伴奏) in |聖地牙哥台灣中心開幕典禮與慶祝音樂會 (2015) is a different person (sister of 李智惠) — not absorbed.

Deepen-X10102300-15 check (2026-10-12)

  • Saturated — no new material found. Fresh ZH+EN grep (陳秀芳 / Susan Liu / Susan Hsiu-fang / Hsiu-Fang / 秀芳) across all 5 corpus dirs returned 51 files; every substantive hit is already absorbed and linked above (Footsteps series, Festival-of-Nations cultural-exhibition accounts, ourjourneys286/223/309/384, TAH #25 interview, Bob Cheng portrait, essays). The only unlinked hit is works/index — a generated index file, not source material. Confirmed false positives: 李秀芳 (UCSD soprano) and 黃秀芳 (Changhua legislator, taiwanjustice news tags).

Deepen-X10121300-15 check (2026-10-13)

  • One new corpus fact. 曾啟明’s chronology |明州台美人百年大事 (2015) records that in November 2003 陳秀芳 and her students held a home-style joint painting exhibition (家庭式聯合畫展) in the Twin Cities, well attended by 同鄉 and international friends. This is her only documented exhibition as teacher/instructor in the corpus and adds a teaching dimension to the muralist/painter record above. All other ZH+EN grep hits (51 files) remain already absorbed; confirmed false positives unchanged (李秀芳 UCSD soprano, 黃秀芳 Changhua legislator).

Deepen-X10120200-15 check (2026-10-12)

  • One new corpus link. An EN-only grep surfaced a hit the earlier ZH+EN pass missed: she is a named signatory as “Hsiu-fang Liu, North American Taiwanese Women’s Association” in |Pew Research Center — Taiwanese American statement — the NATWA affiliation corroborates her footprint in the NATWA Annual Conference painting [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/footsteps-17||Footsteps #17 — NATWA Annual Conference (2015)]]. All other hits remain already absorbed; no other new material.

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