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
    Jan212013

    The Power of Imagination

    DateMonday, January 21, 2013 at 12:00PM

    If you have ever doubted the power of imagination, take a look at this video about artist

    Janet Echelman. 

    Here are the lessons I took from this video:

    Perseverence: Turned down by seven art schools, she kept on her path

    Observe: Pay attention to the people, skills and resources at hand.

    Just say yes: Did not knowing how to do something ever stop this woman?

    and most of all

    IMAGINE. Possibilities, solutions, collaborations, successes, the future.

     

    AND, guess what, Janet Echelman is coming to San Antonio as the keynote speaker for the Surface Design Conference. You can attend by joining SDA and paying the conference fee, or wait and see if there are space-available tickets open closer to the date. There will be numerous fiber arts exhbits, events, workshops and all kinds of textile and fiber adventure going on at the conference. Dates, June 3-14, including pre and post workshops. 

     

     

    For more about Echelman, see these other videos and links:

    1. Janet Echelman Sculpture

    2. Janet Echelman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Echelman
    3. Janet Echelman is an American artist specializing in public art installations and sculpture. She graduated from Harvard University in 1987 with Highest Honors in ...
      Major works - Gallery - Upcoming Projects - Awards [8]

    4. "She Changes" Sculpture by Janet Echelman - YouTube
      ► 5:36► 5:36
      www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7VtnkMzxPs
      Oct 16, 2006 - 6 min - Uploaded by jechelman
      This newly completed sculpture commission by Janet Echelman, changes shape in the wind. 160 feet tall, the ...

    5. "Her Secret is Patience" by Artist Janet Echelman - YouTube
      ► 6:34► 6:34
      www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rwy6IS0cHo
      Oct 14, 2009 - 7 min - Uploaded by jechelman
      "Her Secret is Patience" is a new monumental sculpture, completed in April 2009, by artist Janet Echelman ..
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