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This is the new mural I painted on our garage door in Fall, 2008, to replace the aging mural on the front door. It's my Personal Landscape with Jimmy and me, Gretchen, Mike, and Eva, Obama, and the Statue of Liberty, and all of our and GEM's cats, and a little St Quilta the Comforter down in the bottom left corner, sending out Peace vibes. Its message is "Power to the People: Heal the Earth with Unity and Kindness."
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Susan Shie news:
Sept 1, 2010: My small quilt "Heal the Gulf #1," made this June, will be auctioned starting on Oct 4, at 2:00 PM, as part of the SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) online reverse auction of 288 quilts, with the first group of works being auctioned starting on Sept 20.
Classes coming up soon:
My 3-day class at the Budding Art Ideas Workshops at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, will be Oct 5 - 8, and you cna get a $50. discount by registering by 30 days in advance. This is the first year of this exciting art workshops program, held in UofM classrooms. I'm very excited and hope you'll come!
Two 3-day classes at Valley Ridge Art Studio. Muscoda, Wisconsin. October 26 - 28, 2010 (Life Drawing) and Oct 29 - 31, 2010 (Diary Cloth Books). You can take one class or both. This drawing class is my first time to teach drawing since when I was a graduate student at Kent State, teaching Drawing I and II to undergrads. I taught the fiber books class last year at Valley Ridge and we had a wonderful time. Such a beautiful place, and oh, what wonderful directors! Out in the beautiflu middle of nowhere! Peaceful to the max! Please come!!!
Please check my list for the Turtle Art Camps I offer for this year, for choosing your TAC experience. I'll put up my 2011 schedule for camps by Oct 1.
Aug 26, 2010: Watch the interview video of me at my solo exhibition at the Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, UK, August 17 - 22.
July 21, 2010: The Kitchen Tarot is now in print! Buy the Kitchen Tarot at Amazon. It's a deck of the 22 major cards of my Kitchen Tarot art quilts project, which I began working on in 1998. The deck comes with a small (same size as the cards) user guidebook by author Dennis Fairchild. The publisher is Hay House.
The guidebook and deck are together in a box that's 53/8" x 37/8" x 1". Now you can browse the contents of Denny's booklet on our Kitchen Tarot page at Amazon. I won't be selling the deck online, so buy from Amazon, please!
AND you can follow our Kitchen Tarot news and adventures, like links to blogs and radio shows that cover the KT, at the Kitchen Tarot Cafe Facebook page.
June 12, 2010: I just did a guest blog on Subversive Stitchers: Women Armed with Needles, mostly about my piece "Philadelphia Freedom." It includes a little Eva Art at the end, too.
Nov 17: New site: Robert Shaw has just opened a new website called The Art of the Quilt. There he will represent several art quilters, including me. Since I haven't had gallery representation, out of choice, for years, I heartily welcome Bob's efforts to place my work in museums and major collections. Right now he has five of my large pieces on the site. Robert Shaw has become THE leading art historian and scholar for the art quilt movement: authoring books, curating shows, presenting lectures, advising collectors, and doing appraisals. My artworks will always be for sale by me personally, but now I also have Bob Shaw as my rep. Yea!
Susan Shie Teacher of the Year 2008 award from Professional Quilter Magazine.
Artist's Statement March 30, 2010
Prices for Artwork and Framing suggestions
Susan Shie Barack Obama Quilt S.O.S. interview #2 by Karen Musgrave, Dec, 2008
Susan Shie - Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories interview by Karen Musgrave
My 2010 Gallery now includes my newest piece: Philadelphia Freedom, whose detail is here. This piece includes many stories of the January 12, 2010 earthquake, the aftermath and struggle to recover, and lots of Haiti's history. I looked at causes of racism in Haiti in this piece, as well. My own diary and other world events are written into this piece, too.
Helping people find their instinctive and joyful aritist's voice since 1994. Specializing in drawing, painting and writing with airbrush and airpen, but also with regular drawing tools and brush painting. One of five paintings made by each student in camp is machine quilted during their camp week.
Above is a front view of Turtle Moon Studios, when the crabapple trees are blooming in the Moon Garden.
Turtle Art Camp listings for 2010:
All camps have a Wednesday travel-in day, followed by five days of class, then a Tuesday travel-out day. None of these camps includes major holidays.
March 3 – 9
April 7 – 13
May 5 – 11
June 2 – 8
July 7 – 13
September 15 - 21
October 13 - 19
November 17 - 23
I'll have a 2011 schedule for Turtle Art Camp posted by October 1, 2010. Thank you!
Each camp can have from 2 to 5 students, living for a week here at Turtle Moon Studios in Wooster, Ohio, and studying my processes of drawing and writing with pens, markers, and airpen; painting with brush and airbrush; and turning a painting into a quilt MY way. This is the only place where I teach airbrush painting.
Camp fee is $1,000. per person for full, five-class-day camp (including basic-plan art supplies), and $200 per day per person for mini camps made when two or more people who know each other decide to create a special camp here together.
Please read the full information about Turtle Art Camp, before you contact me to sign up for a camp. Thank you!
Susan Shie: upcoming teaching schedule:
Turtle Art Camps at my home studio in Wooster Ohio, throughout the year.
UK Festival of Quilts. Birmingham, England. Master Class Aug 17 -19, 2010. My lectures Aug 20 and 21, 2010. I'll also be having a solo exhibition there.
Budding Art Ideas Workshops. Botanical Gardens UMI, Ann Arbor, MI. October 5 - 8, 2010.
Valley Ridge Art Studio. Muscoda, Wisconsin. October 26 - 28, 2010 (Life Drawing) and Oct 29 - 31, 2010 (Diary Cloth Books).
Art Quilt Tahoe. Zephyr Point, Lake Tahoe, NE. Nov 7 - 13, 2010.
Spring International Quilt Festival. (Moved to Cinci from Chicago.) Quilts, Inc. Duke Energy Convention Center. Cincinnati, OH. April 7 - 10, 2011 (3 day class, along with a solo show of my work at Festival.)
QSDS 2011. (Quilt Surface Design Symposium.) First year at the new location of the Columbus College of Art and Design. Columbus, OH. Two classes: June 13 - 17 and June 18 and 19, 2011.
Hudson River Valley Art Workshops. Greenville, NY. April 22 - 28, 2012.
If you want me to come teach for your group, just contact me. My teaching fee is $700. per day, plus all expenses. My lecture fee is $500. plus all expenses.
My Turtle Trax Diary: My diary has moved to my blog, and I now put my diary entries there.
Here's a detail from my "Pressure Cooker / Tower" piece, which was in Quilt National '07 and on the cover of the Quilt National book. Read about it and lots of news since February, 07 to July, 07 in my Turtle Trax Diary for July 31, 2007.
Diary entries, back to August 27, 1997, are found in the Turtle Trax Diary Index.
Above are Amazon links to some books my work is in, including the new Kitchen Tarot deck. You can pause the slideshow on the book you want to look at, before moving on, clicking through to Amazon, or resuming play.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: A CELEBRATION IN ART QUILTS
February 9-March 5, 2009
Location: Cafritz Foundation Arts Center
Montgomery College
930 King Street
Silver Spring, Maryland
This show, organized by Susan Walen, included the work of the Obama Quilters, 60 fiber artists from all across the United States and as far away as Australia. This was a quilt show of amazing diversity -- among the quilters and their art. Our work is in tribute to our new President, in gratitude for the hope and inspiration he has brought us. We present these quilts at an unforgettable moment in our country's history.
above is one of my pieces in this exhibition, called "Treasure Map for Obama's Win."
A wonderful video podcast of the exhibition "President Obama: A Celebration in Art Quilts" has been made by Montgomery College. It has about seven of us being interviewed during the opening reception, and shows many of the artists and the quilts. about a half hour long. I love it!
The book of this exhibition is available to purchase at Blurb.com. The cover uses the image of the quilt in the exhibition by Stephanie Grissom.
Read the online newsletter on the GREEN QUILTS page, which leads to diary style update pages. The GREEN QUILTS Project officially ended in May, 2004. You can read all about this in the last update page. A deep thank you to everyone who contributed to the project over its 15 years, especially to Robin Schwalb and Michele Merges Martens, my GREEN QUILTS co-organizers.
Free
Tarot Readings from Lotus Tarot. I found this
site and did a sample reading, and it was just like i was doing the reading
myself, with my own cards. I reallly liked it and hope you will, too. It
reminded me of the little astrology program I use, which is a Mac hypercard.This
is just a very simple site, and you click on the cards you want to select,
after concentrating on your question. Then they give you the meanings of
each card you'd chosen. You can even archive up to ten free readings on
their site, and you can have endless readings.
Turtle Moon Studios:
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Susan Shie
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