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Changing Contexts – What do you see here? Susan Hensel Art
As the sequestration of the unique and difficult coronavirus 19 grinds on, things come to mind. I mentioned in the last post, just as it looks like everything is on hold in the art world, a couple of artworks are finding temporary homes. One is shipping to Mark Arts in Wichita, KS for a show on abstract art. Titled as “Solar Flare 1”, this art is just made to put a smile on your face. It is a riot of colors and techniques in this piece! Digital embroidery artwork is intricate and beautiful. […]
Studio In the Time of ???| Embroidery Art | Susan Hensel Projects
Studio time is LIFE. It is connectional, unrelenting, seeks order out of chaos and, in this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, it stacks up against the unexpected and unpredictable future. Art IS long and demands to be made and put out in the universe. But meanwhile, galleries, art fairs, and museums are closed down. How many will re-open when it is safe to gather again? The online marketplaces try to keep up, bringing in a trickle of income. What is it like for artists in the COVID-19 quarantine? […]
The Unique Art of Embroidery
The Unique Art of Embroidery is a creative and rare form of art medium. Art comes in all different kinds of style mediums such as oils, acrylics, watercolors, charcoal, chalk pastels, spray paint, and pencil. Some more artistic art mediums can include marble, steel, and wood used for sculpting your work. Embroidery although being a rarer form of art medium is loved all over the world. If you’re interested in learning more about this wonderful yet unique art medium, here are some interesting things you might want to know about The Unique Art of Embroidery. […]
Get your FREE pdf on Studio Productivity| Susan Hensel Projects
“Productivity In The Studio” by artist Susan Hensel Susan Hensel has wrote 9 part blog series on productivity in the studio. This is a free guide on how to grow your art business. Artist Susan Hensel shares her expert advice and tips for other professional artists. This is a guide for “keeping it together and getting it out the studio door for professional artists”. She is also a contemporary artist. Susan has run fine art gallery in the past. In recent years Hensel has additionally been awarded multiple grants and residencies, These are through the Jerome Foundation, Minnesota State Arts [...]
Choice Point! | Susan Hensel Projects
Big things or little things, we are all presented with choices throughout our time here on earth. We may think we control everything, but we don’t. Sometimes, no matter what, things just get out of control and choices about how we respond to new events are all we really have to work with! (Thanks, Vicktor Frankl for that insight!) Read on about fiber art by Susan Hensel. […]
Starting Fresh in 2020 | Susan Hensel Projects
I have decided that it is time to start FRESH and consolidate my thought processes and lay them here, in the new location for my art blog. This is one of the places where you can find out about exhibitions, fits and starts in the studio, life changes! View fiber art and geometric art by Susan Hensel. [su_image_carousel source=”media: 6189,6188,6187″ columns=”3″] I suspect, given the technology I use, that some think I know what my outcomes will be as soon as I press the button on the embroidery machine! Nothing could be further from the truth! […]
LaThoriel Badenhausen
LaThoriel Badenhausen Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home New York artist LaThoriel Badenhausen wrote: "Paper dolls! Growing up poor in rural Minnesota, my paper dolls were wrinkled, faded dolls culled and cut from the Christmas Sears Roebuck catalog. Every year, I received a bounty of new paper dolls in the mail. (Montgomery Ward’s “dolls” were inferior). My paper dolls were constant friends during days spent indoors waiting out a blizzard. Schiaparelli Fashion Paper Dolls remind me of that place, those days. Just as a child I pasted new dresses to a doll when I became bored with her fashion presence or posture, [...]
Alicia Bailey
Alicia Bailey Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Denver artists Alicia Bailey says, "The phrase “home is where the heart is” is one that confounded me in childhood. Others seemed to think that home was a house somewhere. I asked my mother about it once, or maybe more than once. Her response to my idea, if my home is where my heart is, then my body must be my home, was an exasperated “Where do you come up with these ideas?” The conviction that my home is the one that I carry with me everywhere, my physical body, has stayed [...]
Maggie Miller
Maggie Miller Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Maggie Miller: "The project is a visual interpretation of the book Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino. Calvino’s book is a dialogue between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. As Marco Polo reports on the vast Tartar Empire through the lens of personal insights. These arise from interactions in each place. A fourteen-odd page mixed media piece, working with pop-up architecture and found prints. My work creates vignettes of Khan’s cities, participating in the conversation as a reader reflecting on Polo’s discoveries about the relationship between self and setting. The viewer is [...]
Barbara Milman
Barbara Milman Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Barbara Milman- I work primarily in two media: prints and handmade artist books (either in very small editions or unique). The books all have a message or story that is told both by the books as art objects and by their text and images. The message, for the past several years, has been about climate change. My specific concerns have been with the fate of coral reefs, the warming of the oceans and the Arctic, the effect of climate change on different environments and species. My books are experimental in form. [...]
Kelly Parsell: Reader’s Art
Kelly Parsell Reader's Art: Longing for Home Kelly Parsell- Circulate This accordion-fold artist book explores the nostalgia and longing for our pasts. The piece highlights six different homes and their specific qualities for which the speaker/narrator still yearns. Circulate investigates the notion of “absence” and how objects, emotions, and histories can continue living on through memory. Reader's Art: Longing for Home March 16- April 26, 2012 Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of Susan Hensel Gallery is on compelling objects, meaningful use of materials, and engaging sculpture. It is a gallery where experimental ideas and works of [...]
Philip R. Luoma Anderson
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 [...]