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Back to the land of the Living! | Energy | Gratitude| Susan Hensel Art

2023-10-31T11:53:44-04:00News, Art|

Back in the Land of the Living with some energy and lots of gratitude Hi there my friends! I am sort of back to the land of the living! I am 6 months into a year of healing from a complex broken leg and just starting to get around on a cane. While I still look pretty pitiful, my doctors and therapists assure me I am doing as well or better than can be expected from this serious an injury. GEESH! Had I known what I was in for, I would have chosen a different injury! […]

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Stitchery Stories | A Conversation | Susan Hensel Projects

2023-01-05T12:47:54-05:00Articles|

STITCHERY STORIES A Conversation   A few weeks ago I had the intense pleasure of speaking with Susan Weeks of the Stitchery Stories Podcast. Though parted by an ocean and a vast time difference. King with her in Great Britain was like talking to my favorite neighbor or long lost friend!   […]

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Finding Your way | Persistence | Susan Hensel Projects

2023-10-31T11:37:16-04:00Articles|

Finding your way takes persistence and maybe a few wayfinding devices. [su_custom_gallery source=”media: 11383,11382,11381″ limit=”7″ link=”lightbox” width=”310″ height=”310″ title=”never”] Finding your way takes persistence and maybe a few wayfinding devices. It is easy to get myopic in the studio.  We artists tend to get caught up in the details: each blade of grass offers an opportunity to linger. And then…there are the droplets of dew!!!  Oh My!  It is all so beautiful! Awe inspiring!  I could gaze at it forever! Such GREEN! Green is a hard color to work with…what am I gonna’ do? Is it going to be a painting?  Where’s the canvas?  Or shall I stitch it?  Maybe beads? OOPS!  I forgot what I was doing! […]

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Being a public facing artist | Make Art | Susan Hensel Projects

2022-08-05T00:20:22-04:00Articles|

Being a public-facing artist? “What on earth does she mean?” People make art for lots of good reasons. For some artmaking is a hobby, fit into their days and weeks for the sheer pleasure of creation.  They may sometimes share/give away the artwork to trusted friends and family. They may display the artwork around their homes. For some, making art is a way to understand themselves.  It is therapeutic, soothing, a mostly private act like journaling. For some it is a spiritual act, like prayer or meditation. For some of us, making art is or becomes a passion that produces more art than one can display at home or in the homes of friends and families. […]

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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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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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Upwelling Story Susan Hensel | a story in four parts | 3-d embroidery

2020-10-09T16:07:07-04:00Embroidery Art, Articles|

Upwelling Story Susan Hensel Upwelling Story Susan Hensel-During these times of fewer exhibitions I have been studying a lot.  One of my studies has been, and continues to be, with Transformational Creative Coach Tressa Berman.  I signed on for a six week session to investigate how I might prepare for the reopening of the art world.  It was clear to me that real-world obstacles to exhibition and sales still remained.  It was less clear to me how I might be sabotaging my progress…what kinds of beliefs and habits of thought could be inhibiting how I move forward.  I sometimes joke that parenthood brings on adult-onset-ADD. During this pandemic, it seems to be ADD on steroids! Too many ideas, too little focus. […]

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Friendship And Practical Advice | Free Resources For Artists | Susan Hensel Projects

2020-07-08T17:59:57-04:00Articles, News|

Friendship and practical advice. My friend, Martha Bird, is a maker of traditional and sculptural basketry. She is a wonderful neighbor and friend I love going to for friendship and practical advice. We support each other on many levels. We bond over art, poodles and the power of art to support and help us heal from pains of being human. She came to this game of art later than I did (I think I was born making art) and it has been awe-inspiring to see her soar. You really should spend time on her new website. Wonderful images await you there. Which leads me to this: […]

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Want to see something pretty?| textile artist Susan Hensel | Susan Hensel Projects

2020-07-08T18:00:47-04:00Articles, News|

New opportunities are starting to bear fruit for textile artist Susan Hensel. Throughout the pandemic, the cultural unrest and economic downturn, it has been hard to believe that the hard work of the studio will be worth the effort. Truthfully I have slogged through the work of finishing things, photographing things,  boxing up things, adding data to my website.  Slogged. However, it has been hard to feel creative or excited in the midst of such huge changes. But I truly believe that art is more important now than ever. It has the potential to heal, to take people out of their daily troubles, even if only for a moment.  It can be a transcendent experience of peace. So I continued to work and send images out. […]

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Get your FREE pdf on Studio Productivity| Susan Hensel Projects

2020-04-07T13:46:24-04:00Freebies|

“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 Board, and Ragdale Foundation. Susan Hensel is a highly productive, multimedia artist who shows a lot. She also represents herself as an artist. This means she shows in academic settings and artist-run spaces. In her 40+ year career, she has exhibited in well over 200 exhibitions, with 35 solo shows, from coast to coast, with a brief foray into Mexico. Susan Hensel is also a former gallery director with over 12 years of experience. As an artist, you must know how to grow your art business.  "As an artist, I find its beauty and structure is qualitatively unique. It deals in optical color [...]

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