In the past, Susan Kelly vonMedicus has worked as a preparator (in the vaults)  at the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in late1970's. She also managed a Fine Art Photography Gallery in Philadelphia in early 1980's. Currently, she is an adjunct faculty at Villanova University teaching icon writing. Plans for the future include a position as artist in residency at Burren School of Art on west coast of Ireland, January through April semester of 2013.

At the Prosopon School of Iconology, Susan studied the traditional discipline of iconography under master iconographer, Vladislav Andrejev. She currently coordinates and teaches beginning students for the Philadelphia Iconography Workshop of the Prosopon School. Susan's work is in public and private collections internationally and she accepts commissions, exhibits, and lectures.

In 2000 a book of her illuminations, Letters from Heaven, an Illuminated Alphabet was published by Conciliar Press of Ben Lomond, California. Susan has reviewed books for Living Church magazine and has done commissioned artwork for two musical recordings. The mother of three sons, she lives and works in the Philadelphia area creating artwork and keeping a garden, chickens and bees.