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COLOR INTERACTIONS | Susan Hensel Projects | Textile Art
Pandemic Projects: Susan Hensel Explores the Effect of Substrate Color on Finished Objects | Textile Art FEBRUARY 26, 2021 ( Published today on the blog of the Surface Design Association.) COLOR INTERACTIONS | Susan Hensel Projects | Textile Art Susan Hensel is a multidisciplinary artist, with a 50+ year career, who combines a mixed media practice with embroidery across digital and manual platforms. She make sculpture and wall art using the colors and techniques of commercial embroidery, designed in the computer and stitched out on the computer-aided embroidery machine. This ongoing pandemic project is called Chromatic Book Blocks. Upon completion, there will be [...]
Old Gallery – New Space! The Art Gallery To Visit | Susan Hensel Projects
The Art Gallery To Visit Old Gallery – New Space Susan Hensel Gallery Merges With Susan Hensel Projects Most of you reading this may know something about me. To compliment my studio practice as Susan Hensel Projects, I have a deep history owning and directing art galleries. It started with Wyrd Sisters in Okemos, Michigan with 2 friends, Sue Ann Long and Linda Kalinich. We ran an art education facility and small gallery in a haunted building! It was a funny little building, one of the oldest in the area. It started as a dry goods store, I [...]
BOOKISH is Open TODAY | New Art | Susan Hensel Projects
Looking For New Art? Look No Further As BOOKISH Is Live! BOOKISH is now available for your enjoyment! This is a special exhibition of new art of textile medium related to artists books. Many of you know that I have a deep background in artists books. Many of the books I created are in major collections all over the place, including the Museum of Modern Art. Every year, I still nerd out and make at least one book. I LOVE books. I covet books. I buy books all the time. So it should be no surprise that I have expressed [...]
How Digital Art Is Made With ODETTA Digital – ESSENTIAL WORKS | Susan Hensel Projects
How Digital Art Is Made For The Winter Exhibition It’s time for a story… I made the decision to join ODETTA Digital art on the SHIM Art Network just as the virus hit. This was around the same time most in-person art viewing was shutting down. I am still grateful and happy in doing so. If you don’t already know, the way I craft my art involves both personal planning and creativity and also computer assisting. I put together the color combinations and style of stitching. Then, I load the information into the digital framework which generates the patterns to [...]
Exhibitions Opening Soon | Susan Hensel Projects | Bookish
BOOKISH | New Art In COVID-Times This is a truly special exhibition inspired by books in the unique medium of textiles. The artist Susan Hensel remains hard at work while others choose to take this time to rest. Don’t miss out on the preview of this new art in COVID-times while waiting for the opening Dec 18, 2020… Discover the sneak peek exclusively for the new works in BOOKISH. […]
The Value of Art | Continuing Education | Susan Hensel Projects
I have been thinking a lot about the value of art lately. I intuitively know that it is not just any ordinary commodity, governed directly by costs, supply and demand. While those things are important, they are not the whole story. I have been having these discussions with friends in business for years…and just simply have not had the language or economic understanding to hold up my end of the discussion or get across what I mean. […]
Persist | Textile Art | Susan Hensel Projects
What Is Textile Art To Susan Hensel Projects Textile art has many meanings and depends on who you speak with. To the fellow artist, it is another form of expressing yourself. In essence, it means to tell a story to help you feel an emotion. To the viewer, it could offer a sense of subtle beauty and inspiration. For Susan Hensel Projects, textile art is a form of persistence and resilience. […]
Art Catalogs Susan Hensel Projects | Embroidery Art
Art Catalogs Hensel Projects Catalogs! Catalogs! Did We Mention Catalogs? Just a little note to let you know that there are FREE art catalogs available from Susan Hensel Projects! The pandemic made me do it! That is, start the special, online, curated exhibitions. As a result, the list of catalogs is growing. Get them here! Take a look below to get a preview and go take a look or download them for later. You can even print them out! […]
Invitational Art Exhibition Susan Hensel | Pandemic Art Lessons
INVITATIONAL ART EXHIBITION Susan Hensel OPENING ONLINE SOON Pandemic Art Lessons: A Women’s Art Institute Online Initiative October 26–December 11, 2020 Featured artists invitational art exhibition online: Hend al-Mansour, Rajee Aryal, Leslie Barlow, Beth Bergman, Teresa Cribelli, Rita Collins, Paola de la Calle, Nicole Drilling, Carolyn Halliday, Susan Hensel, Fawzia Khan, Sarah Kilgallon, Catherine Alice Michaelis, Gwen Partin, Nancy Robinson, Natalie Vestin During these months of the COVID-19 pandemic, isolation and social upheaval, artists have turned on their creativity, delving deeply into their studio practice. While some have taken on these events as a subject, others have seemingly worked in [...]
Midwest Art Biennial | Susan Hensel Projects
Midwestern Biennial & Susan Hensel Projects CHOICE POINT(SAUL) from Susan Hensel Projects will be on view at the 76TH ROCKFORD MIDWESTERN BIENNIAL , OCT 9, 2020–JAN 31, 2021, at the ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM […]
Art Collaboration with Susan Hensel | Ensemble Ouvert? | Susan Hensel Projects
Art Collaboration with Susan Hensel in a Global Context Ensemble Ouvert…Excuse me? The art world is global. How’s that for a statement? And it involves Collaboration. And it is all in context. Living and working in the midwest, it is easy to lose sight of that. Even though this may be obvious when you think about it, what I do, what all artists do, is part of a very large, loosely organized global market of culture producers! No matter what, we all collaborate in a global context these days. But then the question is How do I connect with the larger world [...]
Art Exhibition 70 A-One? | At Silvermine Galleries | Susan Hensel Art
Silvermine Art Galleries Susan Hensel Art Exhibition 70 A-One? Silvermine Galleries & Susan Hensel! Art Exhibition 70 A-One? Don’t Miss it! Through October 20, at Silvermine Galleries, in New Canaan, CT. It’s the 70th year of this show and it is a major celebration for this well-known Art Guild. Indeed, I am so pleased to be in this show with Chromatic Wave 2 & Chromatic Curve and to now be a member of this 96 year old artists guild! As part of this show, I participated in a Pecha Kucha! What’s a Pecha Kucha? It is a brief presentation of [...]