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This is the new mural I painted on our garage door this Fall, to replace the aging mural on the front door. It's my Personal Landscape with Jimmy and me, Gretchen, Mike, and Eva, Obama, and the Statue of Liberty, and all of our and GEM's cats. I hope everyone can still find our home and studios okay! :)
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Susan Shie Teacher of the Year 2008 award from Professional Quilter Magazine.
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Susan Shie Barack Obama Quilt S.O.S. interview #2 by Karen Musgrave, Dec, 2008
Susan Shie - Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories interview by Karen Musgrave
A wonderful video podcast of the exhibition "President Obama: A Celebration in Art Quilts" has been made by Montgomery College. It has about seven of us being interviewed during the opening reception, and shows many of the artists and the quilts. abut a half hour long. I love it!
2009 Gallery now includes several new 2009 pieces, including my latest, "First Lady" (detail of it above.) It's the biggest piece I've made in this style of working, 93"h x 83"w, and celebrates Michelle Obama and her family.
2008 Gallery now complete for the whole year. I made seven major pieces in 2008, which are now in this gallery.
The picture is a detail of my 2008 large piece "Salt of the Earth ," which anticipated and then celebrated Obama's win of the 2008 presidential election, many Obama/McCain last two weeks' election stories, post election happenings til the end of November, along with diary entries from my personal life.
Helping people find their instinctive and joyful aritist's voice since 1994. Specializing in drawing, painting and writing with airbrush and airpen, but also with regular drawing tools and brush painting. Two special camps in 2009 will focus on furniture (Oct) and books ( Nov), but use the same processes as my regular camps, which focus on paintings for quilts.
Above is a front view of Turtle Moon Studios, when the crabapple trees are blooming in the Moon Garden.
Upcoming Turtle Art Camp listings for 2009:
All camps have a Wednesday travel-in day, followed by five days of class, then a Tuesday travel-out day.
May 6 – 12
June 3 – 10
July 1 – 7
August 26 – Sept 1
Oct 14 – 20 - The October camp will be a special Diary Painting on Furniture camp. Call or email for info.
Nov 4 - 10 - the November camp will be a special Diary Paintings for Books camp. Call or email for info.
These are the scheduled Turtle Art Camps for 2009. Camps can have from 2 to 5 students, five only 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.
Come here to learn to open up to your very intuitive inner self, the self you were coonected to well, when you were a child. Within a six-hours-per day, structured class schedule, you'll learn spontaneous drawing and painting for storytelling, and making intuitive diary work on fabric. You'll make one fat-quarter sized painting on fabric a day and machine quilt 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 includes all art supplies for basic projects, tuition, room, and partial board (breakfast, lunch, and snacks). Also my husband Jimmy makes one airport trip on each of the two travel days, to pick up students and take them back.
Students’ expenses are: flights or driving expenses, personal incidentals, and five evening dinners out together.
Camp fee is $1,000. 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. There are two other bathrooms that can be used when needed. Our home and studios are smoke-free. We have cats, but keep the house and studios very clean.
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 upcoming teaching schedule:
Turtle Art Camps at my home studio in Wooster Ohio, throughout the year.
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.
SAQA Art and Excellence Conference. (Panel moderator.) Baker Center, Ohio University. Athens, OH. May 21 - 24, 2009.
Shakerag Workshops. St. Andrews-Sewanee. Sewanee, TN. June 20 - 27, 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 21 - 27, 2009.
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Gatlinburg, TN. October 4 - 10, 2009.
Hudson River Valley Art Workshops. Greenville, NY. March 22 - 26, 2010.
Festival of Quilts. Birmingham, England. August 19 - 22, 2010.
Art Quilt Tahoe. Squaw Valley, CA. Nov, 2010.
If you want me to come teach for your group, just contact me.
My Turtle Trax Diary: My diary has moved, at least for now, to my new blog, and I hope to have monthly entries there.
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 February, 07 to July, 07 in my Turtle Trax Diary for July 31, 2007.
Diary entries, back to August 27, 1997, are found in the Turtle Trax Diary Index.
Obama Exhibition with 60 aritsts, including me:
PRESIDENT OBAMA: A CELEBRATION IN ART QUILTSFebruary 9-March 5, 2009
Location: Cafritz Foundation Arts Center
Montgomery College
930 King Street
Silver Spring, Maryland
This show, organized by Susan Walen, included the work of 60 fiber artists from all across the United States and as far away as Australia. This was a quilt show of amazing diversity -- among the quilters and their art. Our work is in tribute to our new President, in gratitude for the hope and inspiration he has brought us. We present these quilts at an unforgettable moment in our country's history.
Many of the participating quilters in this project have had the honor of being interviewed by Karen Musgrave of the Allance for American Quilts. Our stories will be saved in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress (www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/qsos/).
The Obama piece shown above, "Treasure Map for Obama's Win," was in the show. And I'd LIKE to tell you that I have it available for giclee prints at American Frame. (See lower on this page) BUT I messed up and didn't do it, and now they've got the gallery stuff down for upgrading the format of the galleries, so I can't submit any new works for a while.
A wonderful video podcast of the exhibition "President Obama: A Celebration in Art Quilts" has been made by Montgomery College. It has about seven of us being interviewed during the opening reception, and shows many of the artists and the quilts. abut a half hour long. I love it!
When I do, I'll say so here, and I'll post it on my Facebook page.
The book of this exhibition is now available to purchase at Blurb.com. The cover uses the image of the quilt in the exhibition by Stephanie Grissom.
See some of my Obama art on CNN's iReports.com
Also access two of my Obama pieces on CNN's "Artists Capture the Spirit of Change" page, where you'll be able to use a magnifying glass effect to inspect my pieces.
Congratulations, President Obama! Thank you for being willing to work so hard to start the healing of our world!!!!!!
Works in my Obama Swearing-in series. This is "Obama Inauguration #1" 10.5" square, finished Jan 23, 09. It's not for sale, but three that I finished on Jan 25 ARE for sale and go up to 15" square. They all have different stories and quotes from Obama's speech on them.
Anyhow, stay tuned for more of these, and if you're interested in buying one, let me know. They'll range from $600. to $1,000. each, depending on size. The smallest one, #5, sold on 1-26-09. You can see this same photo on my Facebook page, even if you're not a Facebook member, and you can leave me comments there. I'll eventually have the last three pieces done, but don't know how soon.
"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. I'll add more 2009 Obama art prints of mine, when American Frame opens their upgraded software for artists. Right now it's closed. Blah!
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.
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.
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
Prices for Artwork and Framing suggestions
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