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Tap, Tap , Shuffle | New opportunities | Textile Art
Tap, Tap, Shuffle or New Opportunities I don’t know about you, but I am dancing as fast as I can in these waning days of the pandemic! […]
Fine Art Embroidery, Fiber Art, & Textile Art By Susan Hensel Is For Sale
Fine Art Embroidery, Fiber Art, & Textile Art By Susan Hensel Is For Sale View the fine embroidered art, fiber art, and textile art by Minneapolis’ own Susan Hensel. Susan is an innovative creator with a wide range of artistic abilities and vision. She has been showing for over fifty years and marries the practice of mixed media with embroidery while utilizing digital and manual principles. […]
Can Beauty help us | Perhaps a manifesto | Susan Hensel Projects |
Can Beauty help us? Perhaps a manifesto Can Beauty help us? I make art to learn what I am thinking and feeling. While it is always an internal investigation, I am engaged with the world and culture around me. I am a quiet contemplative, a delayed emotional reactor, a visual glutton. I think and mediate, I get mad the next day and I just simply have to look…all the time. From this essential disposition and with study and thought I have adopted a theory for my artmaking that I call “radical beauty.” So, here goes! Starting with a few appropriate [...]
ART is… | Episode 4 | a series from Susan Hensel Projects
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ART is… | Episode 3 | a series of Susan Hensel Projects
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ART IS…Episode 2 | a series from Susan Hensel Projects
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ART is…Episode 1 |a series from Susan Hensel Projects
ART is…Episode 1 ART is…Episode 1. Artists are often asked: “Why is THAT art?” Sometimes the person goes on to say, “Isn’t art supposed to be beautiful? ” or “It doesn’t look like anything!”. We artists are always flabbergasted, challenged, unprepared and at a loss for words when asked these questions. For us “THE ART QUESTION” is sort of a settled question or we would not be spending so much time making it! But we are an inarticulate lot! We fumble around to answer your questions! We take Twists and turns and chase rabbits down [...]
Exhibiting during Covid Times | Susan Hensel Projects| Online art
EXHIBITING DURING COVID TIMES Or How to begin to exhibit internationally Exhibiting during Covid Times! Sigh! When the first lock down of covid hit, 100% of scheduled shows for Susan Hensel Projects were either cancelled or indefinitely delayed. Talk about PANIC! My new work was just getting picked up in a meaningful way nationally. I was in beginning conversations with a couple of small galleries. And,”BOOM!” NOTHING. All I could hear was crickets. But ART WILL BE SEEN! […]
Running a growing art studio | Susan Hensel Projects | Textile Art
Running a growing art studio is running a business…sort-of. So, once again, I am musing about things. My workflow has recently become a bit more than I can sustain. Good things are coming my way a bit more frequently. Even good things take time to accomplish. Fulfilling deadlines and data needs are eating into creative time with materials. Has there been an uptick in income to match this activity? a tiny bit….but mostly the demands on my time have increased. So, once again I had to look at my actual personal financial budget and determine how much I could carve [...]
Why Residencies? | Musings | Susan Hensel Projects
Why Residencies? It’s been a long time since I attended one. They do present certain challenges. Most of my adult life I was either a single parent of a child or a dog, neither of whom could attend residencies with me. Residencies are available all over the world. They range from yurts and tree houses to resort like accommodations. You can find residencies on a working farm. You can find residencies in the mountains of somewhere. They can be as basic as pit toilets and tents and more glamorous than anything you live in. Many, [...]
Mentoring and things | Musings| Susan Hensel Projects
Mentoring and things | Musings Why are all these people so happy? We all just began a big new experiment: COACHING PROJECT FOR A BETTER WORLD Mentoring and things . Earlier this summer, while I was on vacation, my dear friend and coach Peggy told me about this opportunity with Art to Change the World. And then my friend Layl invited me to apply for the grant, to be a mentor. Perhaps the universe was trying to tell me something. I really do love mentoring! So, I applied. I was accepted! […]
Twists and Turns | New Work | Susan Hensel Projects
Life is always full of Twists and Turns. So is my new artwork. More years ago than I care to count, I lost my husband to a freak accident, leaving me with a two year old. Sad? yes. But there is always learning to be had. The day after his father’s death, I told my son that his Daddy would not be coming home. His 2 year old response,”OK. Let’s play zoo.” So many unforeseen bridges were left to cross ahead, but the imperative, as demonstrated by a two year old, was “going forwardness,” to [...]