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March 2003
This month is new project month.
New to the inventory is a deck of cards, entitled Pack Your Bag
I'm also working on the images for a proposed book and installation entitled Desire. It is very much a work in progress. I anticipate at least a year will pass before it is complete. The images are from mixed media drawings, using nearly all the sources and materials available to me as an artist. These pieces make use of graphite, colored pencil, photography, xerography, collage and printmaking. They are layered and layered with image and contrasting surfaces. They are so rich that they command sculptural space. Click the thumbnail below to see a few images.
The Panty Symphony
The writing has started...This one will produce a book or card deck, a sound CD and if we are truly lucky, as well as driven, a piece of software that will allow you to re-create the symphony in random combinations. This is a multi-faceted project: the symbology of panties; the teachings of the I-Ching; the generation of music based on the meaning of the I-Ching and the metaphors of the panties.
Secret Writings
This will be a small installation in which milagros will form a code as they replace the keys on a typewriter. Political history and the Iran-Contra affair will likely be the foundational source.
News
A Reader's Art 3 opens at The Lansing Art Gallery, 425 S. Grand Ave., Lansing, MI 48933 on April 1, 2003, and runs through April 25. Call the gallery at 517 374-6400 for more information.
The Lansing Art Gallery was begun 38 years ago by a handful of dedicated local artists and art patrons. The Gallery became the first permanent art gallery in Lansing and is Lansing's oldest nonprofit gallery.
The Lansing Art Gallery is located inside the Center for the Arts, a downtown Lansing facility it shares with Boarshead Profesional Theater and the Arts Council of Greater Lansing. Programs of the Gallery are funded by individual memberships, contributions, grants, and the sale of artwork. I am grateful that their board of directors made room in the schedule for the continuation of A Reader's Art as an annual show. An illustrious group of artists from all over the country agreed to show this year:
Check out the show preview.A Reader's Art 3
Movies on the Susan Hensel Design Website
There are now 3 movies on the website. They are located on the detail pages for the installations: Erin's Belly; What if...;andComing Home When you click on the links for these movies they will automatically open in quicktime. Your browser should be a current version of Netscape or Internet Explorer. I do most of my work in Netscape 4.6 which will not run the movies properly. I view the movies in Internet Explorer.Installations
Up-Coming Shows
March 9-April 18 2003
A Way WIth Words:the text based artwork of Susan Hensel
April 7-May 17 2003
a group show of artists books
July 11-August 24 2003
A Way With Words
Archived article links begin below.
Winter sees new projects percolate and some come to fruition. But, more and more, the projects have long production schedules heavy on learning new technologies.
It is a lightly, wryly quirky deck. Walking through the kitchen on a high anxiety day, an empty grocery bag loomed in front of me. Startled by it's seeming black-hole emptiness that threatened to suck me and all of my kitchen into nothingness, I wondered what I would put in it before that cataclysmic event happened. So I wrote for days, at odd hours, a list of what I would do with an empty brown bag. 
Alice Austin-PA
Doug Beube-NY
Jeanne Buescher-MI
Macy Chadwick-PA
Steve Daiber-ME
Joanne Davis-MI
Shirley Ende- Saxe-OH
Holly Hanessian-MI
Karen Hamner-IL
Susan Hensel-MI
Karen Kunc-NE
Emily Martin-IA
Mary Ann McKellar Schwarcz-ME
Bea Nettles-IL
Mary Windram-MI
Theresa Prater-SC
Eve Reid-MI
Sally Rose-MI
Maddy Rosenberg-NY
Miriam Schaer-NY
Susan Joy Share-AK
Jessica Spring-IL
Lynne Sures-MD
Appalachian Center for Craft
Smithville TN
Thomasville Cultural Center
600 E. Washington St.
Thomasville, GA
City of Las
Vegas
Charleston Heights Arts Center
Las Vegas, NE