She taught art in the Rome City School system for thirty years until her retirement in 2005.  During the final six years of her teaching assignments, Susan served as the Teacher Coordinator for the Art Department.            
     Some special projects during her teaching years included ROSIE (Rome’s Outdoor Summer Instructional Experience); Rome Area Chamber of Commerce/RCSD Student Art Exhibits; Chin-America, Rome’s Sister-City project with Xinyu, Jiangxi Province; “It’s a Zoo” Theatre Competition and the fourth graders’ Mural project on downtown Rome windows with Main Street Alliance.
     As a member of the Rome Art Association, she was responsible for the 
Student Artist of the Month Program.  Her volunteer activities included the Rome Art and Community Center, where she was a weaving instructor, coordinator for the Center’s Summer Craft Days, a member of the Board of Directors and the Board of Trustees.  Susan was a fitness instructor for the Rome Family Y.  She has served on the Board of Deacons and the Board of Trustees at Rome’s First Presbyterian Church where she is also a member of the Senior Choir, the Hand Bell Choir and is substitute Organist.
     Other memberships include Delta Kappa Gamma, Honor Society for Outstanding Women Educators; Wednesday Morning Club; Heather Twig; Rome Teachers Association; Retired Teachers Association; Central New York Watercolor Society; Lake Delta Yacht Club and Teugega Country Club.  She is a member of the Herbert T. Dyett Foundation Grant Committee and an Alumnae Admissions Correspondent for Skidmore College.  In 2012, Susan received the Rome College Foundation Star Student Teacher Award.  She was selected by Randy Linderman.
     Susan Davidson’s accomplishments as an artist have been recognized by the Cooperstown National Juried Art Exhibition and Sculpture Space.  She has demonstrated traditional crafts at the Madison County Historical Society’s Craft Fair and at Constable Hall’s Craft Fair.