Susan Hauri-Downing is an artist and eco-social worker. She works at the intersections of social work and artistic methodologies and practices. Her art practice focuses on urban ecological diversity, biocultural diversity, solastalgia, grief and loss, and the intricacy of interspecies relationships. She builds relationships and facilitates connections with individuals and groups to craft artworks that explore ecological and social justice issues. She works with materials that include but are not limited to plants and glass and repurposed and found materials used for sculpture, installation, drawing, and painting, among other art forms. Previous work has included explorations of the personal and cultural implications of the global cultivation of native and foreign plant species, including aesthetics, ties to "home", food security, traditional food availability, ecological complexity and conservation practices, and materials as artefacts.

She provides safe spaces for art as therapy and workshops that enable creative explorations of relationships with nature, eco-literacy, and grief and loss. Her trauma sensitive practice is dedicated to strengthening and improving the wellbeing of those with whom she works and the natural systems in which we live.