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Create Beyond Limits | Susan HenselProjects

2024-05-23T12:21:04-04:00Art, Articles, News|

Image by Freepik   Creating Beyond Limits Create Beyond Limits with Susan Hensel. I know!  I know!  It’s been a long time since I posted. Creating beyond limits is happening, but the limits are real.  So, you will have to wait a bit longer as I wend my way through physical  therapy and recovery. By the way, recovery is actually going very well.  I am grateful that Dorothy Watson has written another guest post to share with you about the business of being an artist!   READ ON! […]

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Happy Holidays | Susan Hensel Projects

2024-05-23T12:28:06-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Happy Holidays from Susan Hensel Projects Happy Holidays from Susan Hensel Projects! It’s been quite the year around here…as those who routinely read the blog know: injury, ongoing recovery, burying dogs, moving domicile and studio! While all is not yet completed and with more medical interventions on the horizon, I begin the exit of this discombobulated year with more strength, hope and gratitude than I entered the year. I am so thankful for all the help, prayers and generalized support of friends and family and new neighbors! A satisfying life is built from many relationships with many people: […]

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Susan Hensel Textile Talks and more | Podcasts | Susan Hensel Projects

2023-01-05T12:38:33-05:00Articles, News|

 Susan Hensel Textile Talks Susan Hensel Textile Talks. I started doing Textile Talks and more interviews with international pod casters last month, thanks to the  hard work of my marketing team, Faceless Marketing.  Each podcast seems to have a different flavor, a slightly different focus. It started with Stitchery Stories with Susan Weeks. See my blog post about it here. […]

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Making a new artwork! | Chromatic Wave 3 | Susan Hensel Projects

2022-06-28T14:42:22-04:00Articles|

Making a new artwork! Chromatic Wave 3 at Susan Hensel Projects There is a lot that goes into making any artwork.  I thought I’d take you behind the scenes again.   I wanted to see what would happen if I up-sized Chromatic Wave 1, Chromatic Wave 3 was just finished last week.   Chromatic Wave 1 is only 24 ” w.  Chromatic Wave 3 is 77″ tall!  Architectural in scale. The digitizing took an afternoon. The stitching took about two days. The cutting, sewing and ironing took another day. At this scale, movement of the pleats into new forms was limited to the triple curve. […]

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The Work of an Artist | completing a commision | Susan Hensel Projects

2022-07-07T12:52:04-04:00Embroidery Art, News, Articles|

On some level, the work of an artist is never done.Or another cliché: Old artists never retire. Completing a Commission The Work of an Artist. Sometime ago I received a commission from an art consultant out of Atlanta who had been trying to find a fit for my work.  We had been communicating for several months before something landed. The commission came in, requesting that I make 12 “bookblocks,” all different, but in a muted palette of indigo, beige, misty blue and some black. And could I do it in 3 months?  Was that doable? probably not unless I began the testing before the contract was signed and delivered! […]

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Good Things Come to Those Who Wait | Susan Hensel Projects | publication

2022-04-18T20:19:38-04:00Articles, News|

Good Things Come to Those Who Wait Or so they say. Actually it takes paying attention and rattling a few cages sometimes. I first started working with Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art a couple of years ago.  They are a gallery and publisher out of Barcelona.  I was intrigued with their exhibition program as well as their design work. […]

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Fine Art Embroidery, Fiber Art, & Textile Art By Susan Hensel Is For Sale

2023-06-08T14:15:34-04:00Articles|

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. […]

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Can Beauty help us | Perhaps a manifesto | Susan Hensel Projects |

2022-01-04T19:21:49-05:00Articles, News|

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 quotes. […]

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