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Turtle Moon Studios:
Outsider Art Quilts and Paintings
Susan Shie and James Acord
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I have received the Teacher of the Year 2008 award from Professional Quilter Magazine.
Prices for Artwork and Framing suggestions
Susan Shie - Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories interview by Karen Musgrave
My class at QSDS this June 21 and 22, 2008 . At Quilt Surface Design Symposium in Columbus, Ohio. This is the premier art quilt gathering for classes and togetherness! My class will focus on intuitive drawing, painting, and writing on fabric for quilts, and you can learn about the airpen, as I'll demonstrate it at the end of this class
At left is a front view of Turtle Moon Studios, when the crabapple trees are blooming in the Moon Garden.
Scheduled camps coming up for 2008:
Note: These camp dates include the travel-in day and travel-out day, along with five full days of class between travel days.
Jul 2 – 8
Sept 17 – 23
Dec 3 - 9
These are the remaining scheduled Turtle Art Camps for 2008. Camps can have from 2 to 5 students, if two students know each other well enought to be willing to share the bedroom that has two twin beds in it. Otherwise, we can have four students max, with each one having her own bedroom. I can also teach a camp for your group at your location. Let's talk.
What you'll study here is making intuitive diary work on paper and fabric and machine quilting at least one of the fabric paintings into a finished piece. You'll use marker, airpen, brush painting, and airbrush, but don't have to try all of these processes if you don't want to. Camp fee now includes all art supplies for basic projects, tuition, room, and partial board (breakfast, lunch, and snacks). Formerly the camp fee did not include any art supplies or snacks.
Students’ expenses are: transportation to and from camp, personal incidentals, and five evening dinners out together. Jimmy makes one airport trip on each of the two travel days, to pick up students and take them back.
Camp fee is $1000 per person for full, five-class-day camp, and $200 per day per person for mini camps made when two or more people who know each other decide to create a camp together.
Students must be at least 18 years old. The studios are in the basement, so it’s very important that all students can go up and down stairs comfortably.
We have four student bedrooms and one student bathroom which is shared by all students. Our home and studios are smoke-free. We have cats.
Thank you! I hope you can find time in your schedule to come study with me in Wooster. Please read the full information about Turtle Art Camp, before you contact me. Thank you!
Susan Shie teaching schedule:
QSDS. Columbus, OH. June 21 and 22,, 2008.
East Bay Heritage Quilters. Northern CA. Aug 23 and 25, 2008.
Omaha Quilters Guild. Omaha, NE. Sept 6 10, 2008.
Art Quilt Tahoe. Squaw Valley, CA. Nov 9 - 14, 2008.
Fabrications Quilt Artists. Spokane, WA. April 9 - 10, 2009.
Edmonton District Quilters Guild. Edmonton, Alberta, CA. April 15 - 19, 2009.
Canmore Quilters Guild. Canmore, Alberta, CA. April 21 - 24, 2009.
Shakerag Workshops. St. Andrews-Sewanee. Sewanee, TN. June 27 - July 4, 2009.
Peters Valley Craft Center. Layton, NJ. July 24 - 28, 2009.
Valley Ridge Art Studio. Muscoda, Wisconsin. August 12 - 16, 2009.
Front Range Contemporary Quilters Guild. Longmont, Colorado. Sept 17 - 21, 2009.
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Gatlinburg, TN. October 4 - 10, 2009.
Art Quilt Tahoe. Squaw Valley, CA. Nov 8 - 13, 2009.
If you want me to come teach for your group, just contact me.
Here's a detail from my "Pressure Cooker / Tower " piece, which is in Quilt National '07 and on the cover of the Quilt National book. Read about it and lots of news since last February til now in my Turtle Trax Diary for July 31, 2007.
The next new diary entry is stuck! I'm working on too many projects at once right now, so have to wait and figure out how to get my next diary up. I may change my diary format. But I will be back before Summer, 08, with some good news. Everything's fine. I'm just crazy busy. Sorry! Diary entries, back to August 27, 1997, are found in the Turtle Trax Diary Index.
MESH A WEEKEND OF CONTEMPORARY TEXTILES
(Three fiber art exhibition openings in Cleveland)
Focus: Fiber at CSU May 16 - June 21, reception May 16, 5 - 7
Textile tArts at LCCC May 17 - June 29, reception May 17, 2 - 5
Artist as Quiltmaker at FAVA May 18 - August 2, reception May 18, 2 – 4
"Olama," a middle sized piece, was finished July 10, 2007, and is now in my 2007 Gallery. Above is a detail of the top left corner of the piece, where you can see the first hand embroidered words I've done in a long time, in Barack Obama's hair. I have long artist's statements about all my work in the galleries for the last few years now, and you can view huge images of the overall and one other detail shot. Obama for President 2008! Yes we can!!!!!
Buy Prints of My Work at American Frame
I now have eleven images available for framed or unframed giclee prints at American Frame, a small company in Maumee, Ohio.
Above is "Ottis and Ome Visit the Rock Hall ," whose original is an 8.5 "h x 11 "w drawing with pen and prismacolors on paper. I'm offering it in two sizes, both as framed or unframed, as a giclee print at American Frame's website. You can also buy prints of "Trust Stew" and a detail of my "Power Out / Devil" and six astrology drawings.
All ordering goes through American Frame. You can order my prints unframed or framed. You can order the print and then set up a different frame combination, all your own, through American Frames's huge selection. I'm not involved in the printmaking! I'm in my studio (or more likely, doing paperwork, but let's pretend not!) They're very friendly, and you can call them or email them if you need assistance.
Please go see my Susan Shie Gallery at American Frame, and if you're interested, explore their framing options, besides the ones I offer. I hope you enjoy this much more affordable way to acquire my work! I'll be adding more images soon!
"Mom and Apple Pie / The Sun: Card #19 in the Kitchen Tarot," aka "Mama Sun," was finished at the end of April, and is in my 2007 Gallery. Above is a detail of it, with Eva and an Earth Day cupcake. This piece is the same large size as the Moon piece below, so they're a set.
"The Calendar / Moon: Card #18 in the Kitchen Tarot," is the first piece in my 2007 Gallery.
Above is a large detail section of this piece.
I hope you enjoy this large piece about the intuitive energy of Moon, with my family, the tArts, the new kittens, and some socio-political comments, as usual.
In the gallery pages for 2005 and 2006, you can view very large full and detail images, as well as my statements for all these quilts. My Gallery Index page has links to all my online galleries.
Karol Crosbie, senior editor for WOOSTER, the College of Wooster's alumni magazine, wrote an indepth article about the six alumni who are art quilters. She used a piece by Gayle Pritchard on the cover, and included a nice mini-bio about me and my work. In the photo above, I was working in my studio, on my IS (Independent Study, the big final research project at the College of Wooster.) I was a returning student, graduating at age 30 in 1981, and the painting I'm doing on the floor here was my first of what we later called art quilts. I used acrylic paint on unbleached muslin, and my mother and I embroidered precise stem stitched outlines over every single line on this piece, as well as on the six portraits of women as kimono that I did for my IS. The other artists in the article are Gayle Pritchard, Nancy Schlegel, Lynne McCreight, Karla Solomon, and Carla Schardt.
My solo exhibition at Wayne Center for the Arts in Wooster, Ohio included this new piece "Aunt Nellie," which is about my aunt, Nellie Snyder, who died in November. It's the first in my Strong Women Story Portraits series. My show and the WAGE (Wayne Artists Group Effort) annual exhibition "Stay in the Lines?" were on display from Jan 12 through March 2, at the arts center.
Against the backdrop of America’s counterculture and civil rights movements, author Gayle A. Pritchard’s compelling narrative threads its way through the emergence of the art quilt, from artists working in isolation to the explosive “big bang” of the first Quilt National and its inevitable reverberations. Pritchard provides a fascinating and personal glimpse into the private world of these unique artists through in-depth interviews, rare photographs, and abundant quilt illustrations.
As Uncommon Threads demonstrates, the art quilt movement could not have occurred without Ohio’s unparalleled contribution. Quilt lovers around the world will relish this tale of the uncommon energy, vision, creativity, and devotion to self-expression that truly made a quilt revolution."
Ohio native Gayle A. Pritchard is a fiber artist, curator, lecturer, and teacher. Her public commissions include The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Quilt Project, the Smithsonian Craft Archives in Washington, D.C., and the opening for the Peter B. Lewis building in Cleveland, Ohio.
"Living the Creative Life : Ideas and Inspiration from Working Artists" by Ricë Freeman-Zachery. 2007. North Light. Has a lot of my writing and pix of my work, along with that of 14 other visual artists Ricë interviewed over a long period of time. Man, everyone put a LOT of homework into this book, and it really paid off! It's really beautiful, as well as very thick with writing.
In Living the Creative Life, author Rice Freeman-Zachery has compiled answers to these questions and more from 15 successful artists in a variety of mediums--from assemblage to fiber arts, beading to mixed-media collage. Creativity is different for everyone, and these artists share their insights on the muse (if you believe in her), keeping a sketchbook (or not), and prioritizing your art, whether you aspire to create solely for your own pleasure or to become a full-time artist.
"Quilt National 2007: The Best of Contemporary Quilts."(book/catalog.) Lark Books. This hardbound book of the newest Quilt National exhibition has my piece "The Pressure Cooker / Tower: Card #16 in the Kitchen Tarot" on its cover. This book has a full page in color for each piece in the touring exhibition:
"Masters: Art Quilts: Major Works by Leading Artists." by Martha Sielman, 2008. Lark Books. Available now for pre-order. Sielman invited 40 quilt artists to have mini-retrospectives in this historic volume. Each of us has eight pages of our images and words.
Book Description:
These art quilts showcase such versatility, innovation, and beauty that readers can’t help but be truly inspired. The gifted artists come from across the globe—including Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America—and their work displays their varying sensibilities, backgrounds, and talents.
Abstract appliquéd shapes cascade across the surface of Ita Ziv’s brilliantly colored quilts, creating vibrant celebrations of life. Noriko Endo captures her deep feeling for trees in a stunning interplay of light, shadow, and leaves. Gloves appear in nearly every quilt by Jane Burch Cochran, representing probing hands and, sometimes, angel wings. John Lefelhocz’s fantastic imagery—including an airplane silhouette that lights up—grabs viewers’ attention.
Esteemed curator Martha Sielman contributes an illuminating essay for each of the 40 featured artists, who are showcased in eight-page features.
Chambers' Comforts Lavender
Soap, blessed by St Quilta the Comforter.
I've drawn a wrapper label for Maryelaine Chambers to use with her special handmade Lavender Soap bar. I adore her soaps, which she makes from start to finish by herself, with the best ingredients which are all natural, and with the most care for excellence. Visit Chambers Comforts and place your order for this magical soap and other of her wonderful fragrance bars. Mary Elaine makes a huge variety of all natural herbal soaps, and they are the most luxurious, good for you stuff you can imagine!!!
Read the online newsletter on the GREEN QUILTS page, which leads to diary style update pages. The GREEN QUILTS Project officially ended in May, 2004. You can read all about this in the last update page. A deep thank you to everyone who contributed to the project over its 15 years, especially to Robin Schwalb and Michele Merges Martens, my GREEN QUILTS co-organizers.
Free
Tarot Readings from Lotus Tarot. I found this
site and did a sample reading, and it was just like i was doing the reading
myself, with my own cards. I reallly liked it and hope you will, too. It
reminded me of the little astrology program I use, which is a Mac hypercard.This
is just a very simple site, and you click on the cards you want to select,
after concentrating on your question. Then they give you the meanings of
each card you'd chosen. You can even archive up to ten free readings on
their site, and you can have endless readings.
Turtle Moon Studios:
Outsider Art
Quilts and Paintings
Susan Shie and James Acord
Prices for Artwork and Framing suggestions
| Classes | | Gallery | | Green
Quilts | |Links |
| Resume | | Stuff
to Buy | |Turtle Trax Diary |
| Visit Jimmy's Leather Studio
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