Philip R. Luoma Anderson
Reader’s Art 12: Longing for home covers a lot of territory. Over the next few weeks I will be featuring images from the artists who are participating from close to home and as far away as France.
Pictured above is an image from Changing Face of a Nation by Philip R. Luoma Anderson. In the book Adult Basic Education students who are learning English wrote a personal narrative. They wrote about their lives in their home countries, coming to the USA, their current lives, and their hopes for the future. Philip was their instructor. He wrote about demographic change in the USA and Minnesota, language acquisition, and the loss of heritage language and the factors that influence language acquisition, language maintenance, and language loss.
Reader’s Art 12: Longing for Home
March 16- April 26, 2012
opening reception Friday, March 16, 7-10pm
Textile Art by Susan Hensel
Discover the transformative textile art by Susan Hensel. Susan Hensel is a multidisciplinary artist, with a 50+ year career. She combines a mixed media practice with embroidery across digital and manual platforms. She also makes sculptures and wall art using the colors and techniques of commercial embroidery. These artworks are designed in the computer and stitched out on the computer-aided embroidery machine. The goal is to create an experience for the viewer that overwhelms with color and transcends the quotidian, encouraging one, for even a few seconds, to step outside the narrative of the ego into a place of pure sensation.
