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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    Wednesday
    Jan182012

    Rat-a-tattoo

    DateWednesday, January 18, 2012 at 01:21PM

    Tattly from Made by Hand on Vimeo.

     

    Ah, art is in the air. On the arm.  Art is everywhere.

    I'm working on some street art/graffiti art ideas for activities for (of all things) and Air Force Summer Art Camp for teens next summer. In my strollings through the ether, I came across Tattly. I want these. They will be a line item in next month's budget for sure. If I regret anything about my age (and pain tolerance) its that I will never get a real tattoo. 

    These temporary ones are even better than the real thing -- all I'm waiting for is a way to do this with my OWN designs!

    P.S. Dear friends, I do this blog mostly for me -- recording in semi-public form the life in the studio (and the things that inspire that life). And you'll find odd, non-quilty and on-the-fringe sorta artful, artsy posts here too, like this one. But I am wondering, could you recommend me to your friends on FB or with a Tweet or just in a select email to someone you know likes to read art blogs? I have had the same 100 subscribers more or less for three years, and, although marketing my classes and my art is not the main purpose of the blog, it is one reason I use to justify the time spent.

    I'd love to increase my readership, so if you can help and pass along the url (http://susiemonday.squarespace.com)

    You and your friends can subscribe through FeedBurner or with your own RSS link by using the buttons and fill-in spaces on the sidebar.

    Then leave your name in the comments block (with a way to get back to you electronically), I'll enter your name in a drawing for a package of genuinely delightly hand-designed and printed fabric scrapplets for your own creative use in collages, quilts and mixed media -- and I'll throw in a temporary tattoo, too. (Drawing will be on Jan. 31.)

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    I read your email today re: blogging. It's the same thing I've been wondering as well. I am really trying to 'amp it up'... I am going to check out resources on BlogHer and other places I can find. I've also considered that I need to have not just a personal facebook page but one for my art/craft... something I'm seeing more bloggers do... I'd love to have someone to bounce ideas off of - feel free to contact me anytime ... Jamie V in MT
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    January 18, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterJamie V
    Re. blogging. I too have been wondering about how to increase traffic. Mind you, I am only just starting back into trying to do more blog entries..... However, I do not put the more personal stuff on the blog - I am trying to keep it to my art. I have a personal facebook page, and I also have an art facebook page (Lynda Anne). I am interested in what others think too..... Lynda
    January 18, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterLynda Worthington
    Susie
    I have enjoyed reading your blog for several years; your topics text and photos stimulate creativity, give ideas and encourage my artwork. I will pass your site on to some friends who well may find as much benefit from reading about your journey as artist.
    Kristin
    January 18, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterKristin McNamara Freeman
    Thank you for the comments and for the pass-alongs. I suspect a lot of blog success is just being really present on the internet. I can do so some weeks, but others, I am just out there in the real studio and the real teaching world for most of daylight hours -- and I haven't been able to break my love of lazy non-electronic evenings!
    January 20, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterSUSIE
    Not only did I recommend you to my MIL, who has been our quilt group leader in Medina ... but, I think they are going to email you to ask you to come and visit us! As I told you on FB, if you DO happen to drive over here (third Monday of each month at 6:30 in the room at the back of the Medina Community Library), please let me know so I can be sure to attend! I have a VERY artsy daughter who went got chosen to go to the Savannah College of Art and Design's summer camp this past year - and me being a (traditional) quilter....well gee, there's a lot of right-brain things going on in our house <grin>.
    January 22, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterTammy
    ... I have noticed that my blog gets more visitors after I have made a comment on an email list or two (and put my blog address under my name at the end). Somehow, I think that it is a matter of reminding people that you exist and what you are up to etc... Wish there was a magic wand! - Lynda
    January 25, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterLynda Worthington
    If the world wouldn't stand against this then we'll be such a waste.
    Good thing there are people like you who understands what it means.
    April 27, 2012 | Unregistered Commenterwall art

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