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The Missing Alphabet

November 11 - December 13, 2023

Temple, TX – [9/8/23] – Prepare to embark on a sensory journey like no other as Temple’s Cultural Activities Center (CAC) welcomes "The Missing Alphabet," a captivating and thought-provoking exhibit by artist Susie Monday, accompanied by an array of talented guest artists. From November 11th to December 13th, 2023, visitors will have an opportunity to explore this multi-sensory exhibit that transcends traditional art boundaries and provides ways for adults and children to understand their own creativity.


"The Missing Alphabet" invites you to delve into the fascinating world of the Sensory Alphabet, where your senses and perceptions play a pivotal role in shaping what you notice and create. This innovative exhibit showcases a breathtaking collection of art cloth banners, both large and small art quilts, and carefully curated pieces from ten additional quilt artists:  Deb Cashatt, Sue Sherman, Laurie Brainerd, Kit Vincent, Carolyn Skei, Sherri McCauley, Heather Pregger, Marianne Williamson, Diane Nuñez, and Susan Michael. Each work of art illustrates elements of the sensory alphabet: line, shape, color, texture, movement, rhythm, light, space, and rhythm.



JULY 2020, Living in the Non-Material World 

Ongoing realization: much of what I can and will do these days is online: talking with friends and family, shopping, finding out stuff, seeing new things, teaching and showing my art. I do have the joy and deep blessings of living in a wonderful nature-filled spot (although 100 degree plus heat is limiting the hours I am actually out in it). We planted a fabulous garden that is bearing tomatoes like no other year. We see a few friends and neighbors from a distance and head out for in person shopping trips when necessary (with masks, with caution, with lots of washing up). I don't lack for food or resources and I'm self-employed in a one-woman studio (with my own in-house video producer). I know I am among the fortunate.

Art prepped for exhibit in Temple

Art prepped for exhibit in Temple

The bounty!

The bounty!

I find that I am easily doing without many things that seemed essential BP: stopping in at my favorite thrift store for new things to wear,* getting my hair cut and occasionally my toenails painted, driving into San Antonio a few times a week to have someone else cook and clean (that's an hour each way minimum from our house).

Stretching out in the virtual world can be both adventurously satisfying and sometimes a big time sink. I'm not sure how I can click on Instagram or FB and an hour passes in the blink of a tweet. 
On the plus side, I'm making more art, having more conversations with relatives and friends who are afar, settling undistracted into healthy and happy routines with Linda, Penny (the dachshund) and ZZ (the cat). Even putting new online courses into place and working on my art biz systems. All things I didn't do "before."

Some of the online scrolling has led to some not-so-guilty virtual pleasures. Here are a few of my discoveries in no particular order. I'd love to hear some of yours.

Recomendo, a weekly newsletter sourced from Tweets and full of new rabbit holes to explore. Here's a couple of ideas from this week's contributors: 
Travel without moving I just spent the last ten minutes on Window Swap staring out a window in Villalago, Italy, where I could see the mountains and hear birds chirping and church bells ringing. Anyone is welcome to submit video (and audio) of their window view, and with the click of a button you can bounce around all over the world. — CD

Best virtual museum - Google hosts one of the best virtual museums in the world. They’ve scanned many thousands of the world’s masterpieces at super high resolution. So from my home I can visit their “Arts and Culture” site and by scrolling get very very close to the art — much closer than I could in a physical museum. I’ve seen many of the originals in their home museums, and I feel I was seeing them for the first time here. — KK

Virtual choirs. 
Here's a collection from Camden Voices, this one"True Colors." There are more to hear and see on YouTube. When you need a little uplift.

All Human Beings Max Richter's" All Human Beings" -- link to official music video by Yulia Mahrhere. And for more on what inspired this piece from Brainpickings, another favorite subscription.

Exhibits and Events

Transformations

Sherri Lipman McCauley and I have an exhibit opening at the Cultural Activities Center in Temple, Texas on July 18. Abstract textile art by Sherri Lipman McCauley and me, and several collectively made quilts by the Austin Art Group will be on display in the beautiful galleries there through August 24. 
While we won't have a traditional opening,  Linda Cuellar has made a great short video about the exhibit and our process so even if you cant make it to Temple, you can get a little glimpse.

Presently, the galleries are open 8:30 - 3:00 Monday through Friday. Cultural Activities Center 
3011 N. 3rd St. 
Temple, TX 76501 
​254.773.9926 Phone 
254.773.9929 Fax
admin@cacARTS.org

COVID and YOU

Round Rock Arts and Culture will be releasing the COVID and YOU exhibition through nightly social media posts, starting this Tuesday at 8pm. This way, viewers can spend time with each artist/performer/writer's work in a personal and focused manner. I will have a piece in the exhibit but not sure what date.

See the exhibit nightly starting July 14 at 
[www.facebook.com/events/220895925666952]

In the Studio

Sherri and I are making two challenge pieces, one in color and one in black-and-white, that illustrate our distinct and differing approaches to abstract work for the Transformations exhibit, here's one of mine hot off the sewing machine.

My large CoVid art piece. 7 Days, 6 Weeks, has been accepted for publication in Sandra Sider’s 2021 book Quarantine Quilts: Creativity in-the-Midst-of Chaos. If the International Quilt Festival happens, it might be included in a special exhibit, but Quilts, Inc is still waiting to see how much room (and if it will happen at all). Apparently if Quilt Inc. cancels the festival, they will lose a half a million dollar deposit, so they are waiting to see what the Houston mayor and council do about the convention center standards.

On the retail side of things, I have some new work up on the RedBubble site -- abstract and Big Bend inspired pillows and other print-on-demand clothing, notebooks, cards and posters. See my shop here! You can even order masks made with my fabric designs. *Since no thrift store shopping I ordered a couple of shirts with my printed designs.

TWO Online Courses

Art on the iPad

Are you interested in using your iPad to make textile or mixed media art? Ready to move beyond FB and books to really using this creative tool with all the best apps? I’ve spent hours and hundreds of dollars testing apps, writing tutorials for the best of them, updating each session of lessons and finding the best ways to teach digital design online. You can be part of the discussion and the next wave of art quilting, textile collage and digital design, starting with the basics and proceeding through printing and production.

The next basic online course ART ON THE iPAD starts July 21, 2020 with 6 extensive weekly posts on Tuesdays, plus a catch-up pause at week 4. Each weekly post includes 5 to 8 separate activity lessons, with videos, tutorials, examples, discussion posts and resources. Course tuition is $250. Registration open now. Coupon for $25 off here.

Text on Textiles

Learn to add text to fabric with a variety of fun and useful tools that take you into the world of art quilts. Lessons will start with hands-on collage and move into stamping, painting, soy wax batik, hand-lettering tools, digital apps for both tablets and desktop computers, print at home solutions and working with print on demand. You’ll learn to use type in creative ways, from readable to abstracted, from narrative storytelling on cloth to abstract uses of letterforms. Course includes text and video tutorials.

The class will start April 8 and run through May 6, with each new set of lessons (usually 4 or 5) dropping into your email box on Wednesdays. The course, as with all my online classes, will be on the web indefinitely for you to access, upload discussions and ask questions. I'm also available by phone to my students and intentionally keep my registrations limited. [Sign up here.] Get the coupon code here.(http://www.facebook.com/events/220895925666952) Use the coupon code for $25 off.

And Finally

A poem from Lynn Unger

Pandemic

What if you thought of it 
as the Jews consider the Sabbath— 
the most sacred of times? 
Cease from travel. 
Cease from buying and selling. 
Give up, just for now, 
on trying to make the world 
different than it is. 
Sing. Pray. Touch only those 
to whom you commit your life. 
Center down. 
And when your body has become still, 
reach out with your heart. 
Know that we are connected 
in ways that are terrifying and beautiful. 
(You could hardly deny it now.) 
Know that our lives 
are in one another’s hands. 
(Surely, that has come clear.) 
Do not reach out your hands. 
Reach out your heart. 
Reach out your words. 
Reach out all the tendrils 
of compassion that move, invisibly, 
where we cannot touch. 
Promise this world your love— 
for better or for worse, 
in sickness and in health, 
so long as we all shall live.

—Lynn Ungar 3/11/20

Lynn Ungar, “Pandemic.” You can read more of Lynn's poetry and learn about her work at http://www.lynnungar.com.

The Road to Compostela

May 15, 2014

The exhibit is up on the main web gallery page, and here it is as well! I am not so sure I understand how Squarespace sets up this gallery here -- some of the images end up being cropped strangely, so you can also take a look at this link (the titles and prices show up there, too!) Many of the pieces are still available for sale. The prices on the website do not include shipping price, so be aware of that. I can send you a PayPal invoice to pay with your account or any credit card, if you are interested in purchase.

Click through the gallery to forward to the next photo. Hover over the image to get size and price information!

 

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Above and Below
Above and Below

36" by 50" Textile collage on wooden frame $1800

Above and Below, detail
Above and Below, detail
When Santiago Was a Woman
When Santiago Was a Woman

48” by 72” by 1.5” Textile collage on wooden frame $3000

When Santiago Was a Woman, detail
When Santiago Was a Woman, detail
Pomegranate Queen
Pomegranate Queen

19” by 21”      Textile collage wall hanging, 2014                SOLD

Pomegranate Woman
Pomegranate Woman

19” by 21”        Textile collage wall hanging, 2014         $300

 

Hands, First Fruit
Hands, First Fruit

18’” by 22”      Textile collage on wooden frame      $300

All is One
All is One

24” by 60” Textile collage wall hanging, 2013 SOLD

Recently shown in the 2013 Dinner@Eight exhibition, International Quilt Festival

All is One, detail
All is One, detail
Reflections, Inside and Out
Reflections, Inside and Out

24" by 60"      Textile collage wall hanging, 2014     $600*

Refrlections, detail
Refrlections, detail
Words on the Surface
Words on the Surface

24” by 60”    Textile collage wall hanging, 2013     $600

Words on the Surface, detail
Words on the Surface, detail
The Road Ahead, #1
The Road Ahead, #1

30” by 32” by 1.5” Textile on wooden frame SOLD

The Road Ahead, #1, detail
The Road Ahead, #1, detail
The Road Ahead, #1, detail
The Road Ahead, #1, detail
The Road Ahead, #2
The Road Ahead, #2

30” by 32” by 1.5” Textile on wooden frame $900

The Road Ahead, detail
The Road Ahead, detail
Conversation, Eucalyptus Forest
Conversation, Eucalyptus Forest

30” by 32” by 1.5” Textile on wooden frame $900

Conversation, detail
Conversation, detail
Camino Village, #1
Camino Village, #1

30” by 32” by 1.5”, Textile on wooden frame $900

Camino Village, #1, detail
Camino Village, #1, detail
Falling
Falling

30” by 32” by 1.5” Textile on wooden frame SOLD

Falling, detail
Falling, detail
Camino Village, #2
Camino Village, #2

30” by 32” by 1.5”     Textile on wooden frame     $600

Camino Village, #2, detail
Camino Village, #2, detail
Queen of the Camino
Queen of the Camino

30” by 32” by 1.5” Textile on wooden frame $800

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Peaches, Farmers' Market
Peaches, Farmers' Market

Textile, stitched print, framed 2013       8.5” by 11”     $200

Another Highway
Another Highway

Textile, stitched digital print, framed 2013     8.5” by 11”     SOLD

First Fruit
First Fruit

Textile, stitched digital print, framed 2013    8.5” by 11”     $200

Midnight Series
Midnight Series

Two hand-stitched pieces in shadow box frames, 20 " by 20" 2014

Mystery, Midnight
Mystery, Midnight

Textile, hand stitched 9” by 9" SAVE

The Road, Midnight
The Road, Midnight

Textile, hand stitch 9” by 9” SOLD

Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope

40”  by 103”     Digitally printed textile     $130

Moonlight Sonata
Moonlight Sonata

40”  by 103”     Digitally printed textile     $130

Moonlight Sonata
Moonlight Sonata
Moonlight Sonata, detail
Moonlight Sonata, detail
First Fruit
First Fruit

40”  by 103”     Digitally printed textile     SOLD

 

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First Fruit, detail
First Fruit, detail
Ione Palace
Ione Palace

Salon d'Artiste is the exhibition gallery devoted to changing artist exhibits. Other galleries are home to the owners' collections, family archives and a chapel and dining room for art and cultural events.

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On the Camino!
On the Camino!
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