Radio coverage of Reader’s Art 11 Jodi Reeb-Myers and I were interviewed by Jessica Folker of KFAI radio just before the opening of Reader’s Art 11. The interview should air next Monday at 7:40 am during the show Takeaway, and either Monday or Wednesday of next week from 7:30-8 pm during the show MinneCulture. The station is at 90.3 fm in Minneapolis and streams live online. […]
City: A Language We SpeakA readingApril 8, 7-9 pmPoetry and language are often featured at Susan Hensel Gallery, especially during National School Library Month, and Reader’s Art, the annual artist’s book shows that Susan has curated for eleven years. On April 8, a few days before the official start of National Library Week, Rosemary Ann Davis will host the reading City; A Language We Speak. […]
A Lesson about Shipping A Lesson about Shipping. I shipped two of my small works to a show in Michigan last week. They fit in one modest box. The cost of it horrified me! Wow, I had been out of the shipping loop for a while. I thought about changing the shipping policy of Susan Hensel Gallery...But then my post office began behaving (again) as though delivery of boxes were optional. I have been asked, more than once, "Why on earth do some galleries (like me) require artists to ship UPS or Fed Ex when the post office is so much cheaper?" Well, here goes: •Delivery to the gallery is more reliable; My post office sometimes behaves as though delivery of boxes is optional. In fact, that happened over the past weekend. In the past, they have occasionally made no attempt to deliver boxes AND left no notice of the boxes being held at the post office. •You cannot get return pre-paid postage labels from the post office. Stamps you can buy and enclose. •The post office does not generally pick up boxes, nor is their parking set up for me to bring in up to 50 boxes for a [...]
A Little Background, PleaseCarolyn Halliday, whose upcoming show My Father’s Religion, hangs this week, responded to some questions I emailed her. So, over the next few days, I will share her responses with you. […]
Debris Collection by Artist Mari Marks Mondanelli Debris Collection represents fractured moments. With a camera, I have explored the world, gathering evidence of these instances through bright color, intense pattern, and unusual shapes. In an intuitive process, I play with relationships between these visual elements. As my memories come together, the work finds its own voice and reveals new possibilities. […]
It's Monday and I'm still working It's Monday. It's 8 pm and I am still working. What else is new? Well, it is the last day of the regular gallery schedule for the next 6 months! Leslie Sobel on the Stonearch Bridge overlooking the great Mississippi River. Zach and I packed Leslie Sobel's show today...if you missed it you can see it in the gallery archives...show #40!!!! Times sure does fly when you are having fun. Leslie showed at the beginning of the second season and at the end of the 7th season. Rather nice, if uneven, brackets. "SO", you ask, "Now what?" Well...I sat in the yard for a bit today and mused with Zach about the difficulty we both have at not working (Hence, it is now 8:15 pm and I have been at it since before 10 am.) I am already thinking of ways to use the gallery, before we re-commence in January. I am considering doing an artyarn show in the fall...I am considering truncating the yearly schedule to September through May or June...I am considering having a fiber oriented set of summer shows each year...I am considering.... Art yarn [...]
ars domestica May 6-28 I love seeing Libbie Soffer in her studio. She works with such simple means: discarded clothing, paper, pencil, hangers…things so commonly overlooked. Yet from these ordinary objects, she wrests meaning. […]
South Minneapolis Wild Wool Market Arrives! South Minneapolis Wild Wool Market at Susan Hensel Gallery• 3441 Cedar Ave S • Minneapolis Demonstrations! Refreshments! Yarn! Fiber! Roving! Batt Your Own Wild Batt! This new experiment will start Memorial Day Weekend...When you are out shopping yard sales, stop by and shop with us! You will find great values in materials and finished textile products from local artisans. The tentative line up for May 29 is: Sue Hensel: batts, roving, yarn, Batt Your Own Wild Batt station and/or spinning demo Kat Corrigan: Frankensweaters and sewing demo Pauline Mitchell: weaving, tapestry demo Stefanie Moss: weavings from handyed yarn Pam Angier: miscellaneous fiber goodness from the Fiber Studio Susan Hensel Gallery Opened September 10th, 2004 Susan Hensel Gallery was a gallery/ workspace presenting 5-6 shows per year devoted to the concept of narrative in the arts in an intimate space, with hardwood floors and high tin ceilings. The Susan Hensel Gallery is now both a window gallery on Cedar Avenue, the main thoroughfare in south Minneapolis and an online venture represented on Artsy.net. In March 2013, the interior space reverted to a working studio for Susan Hensel [...]
Flowers in celebration Do you remember Kari Gunther-Seymour? I do! She sent this bouquet celebrating 7 years of the gallery and the beginning of my sabbatical! What a wonderful artist and what a wonderful human being. Kari was one of the first artists I worked with here at the gallery. She shipped in WAR GAMES, an amazing installation of interactive art games that pertained to our never ending war in Iraq, in the first year of the gallery. Kari is a life long peace activist whose son went to war. She has produced powerful bodies of work that deal with the tension between supported her son, and the troops, while abhorring the war.(go to the gallery website and check out the archives: Show #3 and show #15.) Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of Susan Hensel Gallery is on compelling objects, meaningful use of materials, and engaging sculpture. It is a gallery where experimental ideas and works of the hand join to create unique sensory experiences. Opened September 10th, 2004 Susan Hensel Gallery is a gallery/ workspace presenting 5-6 shows per year in an intimate space, with hardwood floors and high tin ceilings. In 2013 the [...]
The What and Why of retirement The What and Why of retirement. After the summer hiatus, the gallery will reopen, as a gallery. In September for an exhibition by Jeff Rathermel, the executive director of the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. At the end of his show, toward the end of October. The space will slide back into studio space for a bit. A lingering question remains, however. Why retire? […]
