Neurotangle by: Textile Artist Nina Martine Robinson Textile artist Nina Martine Robinson is an emerging St. Paul-based contemporary textile artist whose creative process starts with a sewing machine. Neurotangle, created in 2019, is an early exploration into utilizing repurposed clothing as a metaphor for neurodiversity. […]
Contemporary Art by Susan Hensel – Susan Hensel is a multidisciplinary artist, with a 50+ year career, who combines a mixed media practice with embroidery across digital and manual platforms. Hensel’s artwork is represented in collecting libraries and museums as disparate as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Getty Research Institute. […]
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. […]
Susan Hensel Artwork It is raining hard today, yet Blue Guy, AKA Rick, is carrying on. I fear he will have no papery skin left after today. Last night my drawing co-op brought him in to draw. We discovered that not only did he have no brain, but that he had a gaping hole in his chest, where his heart might have been. Much discussion ensued, leading us to conclude that perhaps he had landed in the Land of OZ. […]
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. […]
When did you become interested in knitting with wire? Around 1996, when Minneapolis was hosting Convergence for the Hand weaver’s Guild of America. […]
“Productivity In The Studio” by artist Susan Hensel Susan Hensel has wrote 9 part blog series on productivity in the studio. This is a free guide on how to grow your art business. Artist Susan Hensel shares her expert advice and tips for other professional artists. This is a guide for “keeping it together and getting it out the studio door for professional artists”. She is also a contemporary artist. Susan has run fine art gallery in the past. In recent years Hensel has additionally been awarded multiple grants and residencies, These are through the Jerome Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, and Ragdale Foundation. […]
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. […]
