Description

In the age of Southern cotillions, women could communicate through how they held their fans: fully open, fully closed, partially revealed. Something about the real sculptural lift of this piece reminded me of a fan about to change its message!

Women, in the days of the southern cotillion, could communicate and tell stories through how they held their fans : fully open, fully closed, partially revealed. Something about the spring and lift of this sculptural piece reminded me of a fan about to change its message.

Sculpture: Digital, Fiber, Textile, Paint on Wood, Other.

[su_box title=”Susan Hensel” box_color=”#2a6bb0″] Susan Hensel is a multidisciplinary artist, with a 50+ year career, who combines a mixed media practice with embroidery across digital and manual platforms. Susan received her BFA from the University of Michigan in 1972 with a double major in painting and sculpture and a concentration in ceramics. With a history, to date, of over 200 exhibitions, more than 30 of them solo, twenty garnering awards. Above all, Hensel’s desire to communicate stories through art continues to be a powerful motivator. Hensel’s artwork is known and collected nationwide, represented in collecting libraries and museums. [/su_box]