Susie Monday

Artist, maker, teacher, author, head cook and bottlewasher.

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The art I make is the result of a life-long love of pattern, texture and color. How I teach is a skill honed by experience (I started teaching creative arts to younger kids when I was 12). After earning a B.A. in Studio Arts from Trinity University, I helped lead an internationally recognized educational foundation, designed curriculum exhibits for schools and other institutions, wrote and edited for a major daily newspaper, opened the San Antonio Children's Museum and then, a dozen years ago, took the scary but essential (for me) leap to become a fulltime artist and art teacher.

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    Monday
    Oct182010

    A Letter from the Lake

    Hi Susie and Julia:

     Just wanted to send out a quick note to thank you so much for choosing Villa

    Sumaya for your 3 day respite after your long tour of central america and

    all your good works.  I'm sending along another big thank you for the

    recycled dresses - the girls just loved them and Celine will take the one

    she is wearing in the picture to school tomorrow so that she can share it

    with her school mates and teachers.  It's really a very cute dress and I am

    considering copying the style as both girls loved it.  Unfortunately it's a

    little itchy but it's a great example of creative mind at work and when the

    girls are done enjoying them we will donate them to the Pacha Mama program

    that has a massive recyling program around the lake so that they can use

    them as examples of what can be done with a bit of refuse.

     

    I also wanted to let you know that we were delighted to know about the

    baking soda as a fixative as we did run out of soda ash and were able to

    substitute the baking soda.  So again we thank you and hope to stay in touch

    and look forward to all that may come.  I'll ask Lizzy to send you our group

    package so that you can keep in mind the possibility of bringing little

    groupitos here one day.  We'd love to share our paradise with you.

     

    Wishing you all the very best,  love, Wendy

     

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