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FLOW | ODETTA Digital | Susan Hensel Projects

2021-10-27T14:52:38-04:00Articles, Exhibition|

FLOW, a new show with Odetta Digital is open today. Works from Susan Hensel Projects are part of it. FLOW, the new artsy show presented by ODETTA Digital is “live on-line.”   Four of my Seed Pod series are included. Another one of the Seed Pods is at  the “little SCULPTURE show” exhibition and Art Sale at KANEKO (Omaha, NE). That exhibition will be on view October 1st -October 24th, 2021 in conjunction with the 2021 International Sculpture Center Lifetime Achievement Award presentation to Jun Kaneko and KANEKO Soiree celebration. […]

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NEW WORK | Climate change | Susan Hensel Projects

2021-10-27T14:52:22-04:00Articles, News|

Where Does New Work come from? Vacation?  Climate change? Vacation is a bit different for me than many people.I don’t go for the hiking and boating, although I might do both. Well, maybe not the boating. My stiff knees makes getting in and out of my preferred watercraft, canoes and kayaks, hard. […]

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New Work | Pebble Beaches and Urban Living | Susan Hensel Projects

2021-08-06T17:28:37-04:00Articles, News, Exhibition|

Where does new work come from? Somewhere between Pebble beaches and Urban Living. read about the development of New Work at Susan Hensel Projects Not too long ago, I got back from vacation on the shores of Lake Superior.  To me, it is the greatest of all the Great Lakes.  It is cold, deep and wild!  Rarely swimmable and always dangerous to inexperienced fishermen and boaters.  I go there every year to decompress, hear myself think and “wash off the city.” […]

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Seek and Ye Shall Find | Susan Hensel Projects

2021-07-09T14:04:56-04:00Exhibition, Articles, News|

Seek and Ye Shall Find | Susan Hensel Projects Art is still out in the world as well as online I look all the time. I look deeply at other people’s art every day. Seeking opportunities every day. Finding opportunities every day. I get opportunities sometimes! I’ve had kind of good run-on opportunities lately.  Taking chances has paid off.  This does not mean that I have avoided rejections, even dearly desired opportunities have rejected me lately.  It’s simply part of the process.  But sometimes you really do get lucky by taking a chance. […]

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TELEPHONE GAME | Susan Hensel Projects

2021-04-15T17:41:23-04:00Articles, Embroidery Art, News, Exhibition|

The TELEPHONE GAME Is Now LIVE! Bookish Transitions Long, Long Ago, On A Planet Far Away, Before The Pandemic… This cool collaborative project called the TELEPHONE GAME comes into my sights. In fact, I read about it in the New York Times. Nathan Langston created and ran the first game of TELEPHONE, published in 2015. Due to the state of the world, he initiated the second game in March 2020. Nathan created an experiment of international collaboration that got larger than anyone of us could ever have imagined. In fact, it features over 900 artists from 72 different countries! […]

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How I Arrived Here | Susan Hensel Projects | Textile Study Guild of NY

2021-04-01T16:40:29-04:00Articles, Embroidery Art|

“I am always amazed at how I arrived here, steeped in digital embroidery, making hard edged sculptures from soft materials!”   Chromatic Wave    ( I was  honored recently to be featured in a profile on The Textile Study Group of NY website with a stellar group of textile artists who work sculpturally! Do check out the other profiles.  Enjoy!) [su_divider] My background and training are in the arts with a BFA in sculpture and painting.  I worked for many years in ceramics, many years in papermaking, many years in book arts and many years as a gallery director. My “hobby time” was thoroughly fiber: hand spinning, sewing, hand embroidery. Materials with their haptic and scientific qualities always obsess me. […]

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COLOR INTERACTIONS | Susan Hensel Projects | Textile Art

2021-03-11T17:30:36-05:00Articles|

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 al least 25 modules. Susan Hensel Chromatic Book Blocks 2021, digital embroidery, mixed media. Photo by the artist. […]

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BOOKISH is Open TODAY | New Art | Susan Hensel Projects

2021-03-11T18:15:16-05:00News, Exhibition|

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 my love of books in textiles as well as paper and board! […]

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Art Catalogs Susan Hensel Projects | Embroidery Art

2021-03-12T13:48:52-05:00Articles, Freebies|

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!   […]

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