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Susan Pearcy

MD countrysideartisans.com
Raised in St. Louis, MO with encouragement to pursue art by my artistic Mother.  Studied early at the St. Louis Art Museum; off to college (art ed major) at Southeast MO State University until transferring to New York University, NY, NY (B.S.in Painting, Graphics and Sculpture and The Art Students League, studying under Robert Blackburn and Michael Ponce de Leon) in 1966 after marriage.  Social justice issues took us to work in the Civil Rights Movement in Southwest GA in the late 60's, early 70's and to CA in the early 70's to work with Cesar Chavez in the United Farmworker Movement (www.farmworkermovement.org/gallery). Continued print studies at Ft. Mason Art Center and Graphic Arts Workshop (San Francisco, CA);move to MD in 1979 and continued etching/viscocisty etching/lithography at Graphics Workshop/Bethesda. Founding member of the Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC My art is in numerous private and public collections including the Pushkin Museum, Russia, the Chemalier Museum, France, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC,  Murseum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Library of Congress and others. I've received several state arts council grants in CA and MD and Outreach grants in my community.  I am a weekly volunteer (for 18 years) at the National Institutes of Health where I promote art projects with hospitalized children and also do their portraits which I give to them.  I was selected one of Maryland's Top 100 Women in 2009 by The Daily Record in Baltimore. I have two adult children who are both in the arts as is my husband (film).  Check out queenbee-creations.com
 
 

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amberhartin over 1 year

As have I! I'm working in my sketchbook at this very moment though. I'm hoping to post my progress in the next few days.

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amberhartin over 1 year

Love your works! The sketches have such an immediacy to them, i really enjoy the line work.

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Arlissa Vaughn about 2 years

Hello, will you vote to help Visual Overture Magazine get a $25,000 grant from Pepsi so
that we can better serve emerging artists? http://www.refresheverything.com/visualoverture


You can vote once a day, every day from now until April 30.


Thnx, from a fellow artist. :)

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Jill Evans over 2 years

I love your drawings with the gentle flowing lines and a quality of being alive. I always seem to return to drawing dead things too but must add some on here.

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K Holmes over 2 years

Thanks, I must say I was less than inspired by the theme (I give my art students more leeway in the themes for their work-7th & 8th graders!) but I'm reaquainting myself to making art for me, so it was a good exercise. I so enjoyed your sketchbook project sketches, so intimate with nature. . ! I was referring to a painting on your countrysideartisans site, the painting on the left of your studio info. Beautiful light and color. . .

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K Holmes over 2 years

Susan, I just visited your site, and love your painting! It reminds me of the California Impressionists near the Laguna Beach, Ca area. I took a workshop on painting bought an Edgar Payne Outdoor Painting book, but need lots of guidance. Do you give summer workshops?

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Elsa Mickelsen over 2 years



Hi there,


Just wondering, have you heard anything about the 10000 people project?  Was there an exhibit?  I haven't been able to find out anything.  Have you heard?


elsa


(sasaroo)



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Elly Wright over 2 years

Apart from liking your work I loved reading your biography. Visited the farmworker movement gallery and found your prints. Fieldhands and Campesinos were favourite. They are reminiscent of Vincent van Gogh (a countryman of mine). The Royal Academy in London is hosting an exhibition of his Letters with sketches (not often on tour) and I am looking forward to visiting it as a birthday treat soon. One can see the letters with sketches on line http://vangoghletters.org/vg/with_sketches.html As I live in France part of the year, it would be nice to know in which town the Chemalier Museum is?

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Katherine Liontas-War over 2 years

Congrats on selling 2 prints for a permanent collection!  Hey, if you ever want to trade, let me know and I'll send jpgs.  k

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Terri Laird over 2 years

I really did finish just under the wire!  I just mailed it in this afternoon.  Glad they gave us that extra time.  Unfortunately i didn't feel I gave the project justice.  Seemed like the holidays got in the way.  Plus my mother-in-law was not well and some of the other usual holiday family junk. 


But it's a new year and I'm ready for new projects.  I'm trying to get a friend of mine to work with me on the literary project.  Since I wrote so much on this other one we could probably devise some fiction piece and illustrate it.


I'm also going for the self portrait.


My nephew lives in NYC and I asked him about the location of the Brooklyn Art Library where they're moving this gallery.  He said it's a kind of neat area but hard to get to so there's not alot of action there. 


I think the way the internet approach to the Art House gallery is very novel.  It's great to be accepted unequivicably.  They must be successful doing this or they would have quit by now I would think.  Gives us an outlet.


Terri

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