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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    Entries in DVD Workshop (4)

    Monday
    Sep062010

    Interweave Customer Appreciation Sale

    It's the final day for a customer appreciation Sale at Interweave. If you've been waiting to purchase my Mixed Media Textile Art (Or another) Interweave DVD, you can get big savings today.

    Mixed-Media Textile Art (Download) Mixed-Media Textile Art (Download)
    Contemporary textile artist Susie Monday demonstrates how to create artful and original screen-printed fabrics.
    [more info...]

    Video Download
    Item Number: EP2015
    Availability: Available Now
    Was: $14.95
    Sale: $8.97
    Video Download


    Mixed-Media Textile Art (DVD) Mixed-Media Textile Art (DVD)
    Contemporary textile artist Susie Monday demonstrates how to create artful and original screen-printed fabrics.
    [more info...]

    DVD
    Item Number: 10QM10
    Availability: In Stock
    Was: $19.95
    Sale: $11.97
    DVD

    Saturday
    Aug282010

    Wowie -- A top rating with Interweave

    Here's what showed up on the interweave newsletter today! My DVD Workshop was one of five products featured as a "top-rated product" from those who have bought the DVD.

    "At Interweave, we strive to provide the highest quality publications and designs to help inspire your creativity. Of the thousands of products at the Interweave Store, these are some of the most popular.

    But don't take our word for it, here is what our customers have to say:


            "I really enjoyed this video! The artist is friendly and relaxed, and demonstrates her technique clearly. She creates a good balance of instruction and encouragement, skill and creativity. . . . It's a wonderful introduction to screen printing, and opens the way for experimenting and playing with the technique and materials."

    — Jeanne D., Interweave Store Customer
    on Mixed-Media Textile Art

    P.S. I just looked and figured out it doesn't take too many comments to get that great rating! If you've seen my DVD, please follow the links above to the site and leave your comments. I hope to make this the first of many Interweave activities!

    Thursday
    Apr082010

    Live, on a screen near you!

    

    MIXED MEDIA TEXTILE ARTS!

    The Quilting Arts people launched my video workshop this week. Take a peek. Buy it now! I am so jazzed to see this, especially since I thought I was really lame in the first part of the taping, but they know how to edit a segment...

    Here's what the newsletter says:


    Mixed-Media Textile Art Workshop DVD Available Now!

    Be among the first to take Susie Monday's new workshop!  Mixed-Media Textile Art, the newest of our Cloth Paper Scissors Workshop™ DVDs, is now available. Get ready to take your mixed-media textile art to the next level with Susie's masterful demonstrations.  At your own convenience and in the comfort of your own home or studio, you can explore new techniques and enhance your design skills.

     

    You can order from Interweave in the link below, or wait til I get wholesale copies that I can autograph and personalize for your library -- and I'll include a few pdf downloadable related lessons, too!

     

    Mixed-Media Textile Art (DVD)

     

    And while you're shopping, you might want to take a look at Jane Dunnewald's new DVD on screenprinting. It's a perfect complement to my DVD if you don't know anything about prepping a screen or making your own -- even this preview will get you started!

    Wednesday
    Mar312010

    Cloth Paper Scissors Debut

    I'm honored to be writing now for Cloth Paper Scissors, the Interweave Press mixed media magazine. My first article will be in the May/June issue and its a profile of mixed media artist Robert Maloney. I hope you'll all pick up a copy and tell me what you think, when the mag hits the stands!

    And, speaking of publication, I've also just received word that my Cloth Paper Scissor DVD Workshop about Rainbow Printing will be released in Apri and that it will be featured in teh CPS newsletter of April 7.

    Hi Susie,
    We will be promoting your DVD in the April 7th newsletter. Can you please send me some tips or a brief how-to related to your DVD for that newsletter? We would also need an image. We will need all of this no later than April 1st.
     
    Thanks Susie. Please let me know if you have any questions.
     
    Have a good night.
     
    Warm regards,
    Barbara Delaney
    Assistant Editor
    CLOTH PAPER SCISSORS®

    I am holding my breath til I see that hour-long me-in-front-of- big-scary-camera workshop! I learned a lot in the process, and beg those of you who have the opportunity to see it sometime to tell me how I could improve. (I'll let you know where/how to purchase when I get the word that it's on the way -- or you can go to CLP's website and sign up for their newsletter.) I KNOW I was really disorganized and rushed at the beginning (breathe, Susie) but I think I improved as the tape rolled.