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Susie Monday

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

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.

About This Blog

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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Entries in Alaska (2)

Saturday

Jan192013

From the Museum

Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 10:23PM

Here are just a few of the images I took at the Museum in Fairbanks at the University. I've captioned with the names of the artists. The ones I've selected are images that feed my imagination and give me a sense of story -- something I try for in my own work.

Contemporary mask

Sara Tabbart, carved wood, detail of "Winter Lake"Dance stick, Kay Hendrickson (Qiawigar), 1982

Gut parka, Siberian Yupak, St. Lawrence IslandFox, Forehead mask, Cup'ik, re 1946

Snow berm at flood plain park, this past week

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Here We Are, iPads in Hand

Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 07:51PM

And fun, indeed was had by all.

In progress:

Me, and Elements members plus one: Charlotte Bird, Kathie Cook, Margo Klass (back of head), Ree Nancarrow (below) and Margo. Not shown, Jerri Roberts.