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Susan Hensel
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Susan Hensel received her BFA from University of Michigan in 1972. Her continued studies over subsequent years has included Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Penland, and Praxis Center for Aesthetic Studies among others. Hensel’s work engages the material and techniques of contemporary commercial embroidery: her sculptures and books are digitally rendered and stitched out on a computer-aided machine. By moving the process of making away from human hands, her aim is to create an experience that transcends the ordinary, allowing viewers to step outside of ego into greater awareness of others and the world around them.
Hensel has been included in numerous exhibitions, and she has received multiple awards for her book art and sculpture. Her work has been collected nationwide, represented in collecting libraries and museums as disparate as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Banff Center in Canada and The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Major holdings of the artist’s work are at Minnesota Center for Book Arts, University of Washington, Baylor University and University of Colorado at Boulder. Archives pertaining to her artist books are available for study at the University of Washington Libraries in Seattle.
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Susan Hensel received her BFA from University of Michigan in 1972. Her continued studies over subsequent years has included Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Penland, and Praxis Center for Aesthetic Studies among others. Hensel’s work engages the material and techniques of contemporary commercial embroidery: her sculptures and books are digitally rendered and stitched out on a computer-aided machine. By moving the process of making away from human hands, her aim is to create an experience that transcends the ordinary, allowing viewers to step outside of ego into greater awareness of others and the world around them.
Hensel has been included in numerous exhibitions, and she has received multiple awards for her book art and sculpture. Her work has been collected nationwide, represented in collecting libraries and museums as disparate as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Banff Center in Canada and The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Major holdings of the artist’s work are at Minnesota Center for Book Arts, University of Washington, Baylor University and University of Colorado at Boulder. Archives pertaining to her artist books are available for study at the University of Washington Libraries in Seattle.