Outsider artist: Susan Shie
caption: “Pressure Cooker / Tower “, which is in Quilt National ‘07 and on the cover of the Quilt National book.
Susan Shie of Wooster, OH, is a well-known quilt artist and teacher, yet she considers herself to be an “Outsider” artist, her work lying “outside” the circles of traditional painting and quilting. Her earlier quilts were funkily stitched and highly embellished ” … huge amounts of hand sewing … lots of tiny glass beads. It took many months to finish most of my pieces then.” Her recent painted quilts emphasize storytelling with the visual embellishment of stream-of-consciousness diary writing. “… now the sewing has become secondary to the painted composition. The detail created by my airpen writing and drawing intrigues the viewer, and … the tiny writing itself makes a new texture, which … doubles as pattern.”
Katrina Blues
Susan Shie, well-known Outsider quilt artist and teacher, will speak about her work at the February meeting of the Textile Study Group of New York. Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Time: 7 PM
read more here about her work
WILMA “PEACE VOODOO”
February 19th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
susie was one of my first inspirations for slow cloth quilting. her work is amazing.
February 20th, 2008 at 4:08 am
I took a class for a week from her last year at Arrowmont School of Art in Gatlinburg. What a highlight in my liife! She is soooo cool! love her
February 20th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Should be a great event!