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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This weblog is about the maker's life. The teacher's path. The stitching and dyeing and printing of the craft of art cloth and art quilt. The stumbling around and the soaring, the way the words and the pictures come together. Poetry on the page and in the piecing of bright scraps together. The inner work and the outer journeys to and from. Practicalities and flights of fancy and fearful grandeur, trivial pursuits and tactile amusements. Expect new postings two or three times a week, unless you hear otherwise. 

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    Friday
    Mar012013

    The Next Generation of Fiber Artists

    DateFriday, March 1, 2013 at 11:33AM

    I spent a few hours last night at Carnahan Elementary School's annual Art Fair. This was my third year to participate -- I think they keep asking me because I don't complain about being situated next to the very loud, and youthful, rock-n-roll band that takes up the last hour or so of the event!

    Seriously, I like to participate because this gathering is such a hopeful and creative one -- lots of people there with kids, taking time to be with them with no screen in sight. And, this school is such a United Nations of diversity -- its good to see that our country is still one of great hope, of people here from around the world, of parents who care for their kids and who take time to visit the school, hold their hands, scoot up the jacket sleeves to keep the paint off, and who oohh and awww over even very simple things!

    Artist Susan Oaks and helper get ready for the hoards.

    Thom Ricks signs his new book and wonderful posters!

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