a b o u t
P R O J E C T S - C U R R E N T
2022 - Curator
una exhibicion des artes de la fibra : an exhibition of fiber arts
SHOWCASING: Members of the New Mexico Fiber Arts Directory
November - December 2022
www.newmexicofiberartsdirectory.com
2021 - The Mountain West Fiber Arts Directory - Founder, Editor, Publisher.
www.mountainwestfiberartsdirectory.com
2020 - 2021 Curator: Donna Monroe Retrospective - RioBravoFineArt Gallery - November 14, 2020 - February 28, 2021,
@RioBravoFineArt Gallery, Truth or Consequences, NM 87901,
www.riobravofineartgallery.com
www.donnamonroeartist.com
2020 - Ongoing. Webmaster and Communications Facilitator, SCARS, the Sierra County Animal Rescue Society, Donations are Always Welcome!!!
www.sierracountyanimalrescuesociety.com
2019 - Ongoing. FLAXall things fiber - Truth or Consequences, NM 2019 - www.flaxallthingsfiber.com
2017 - Ongoing. The New Mexico Fiber Arts Directory - Founder, Editor, Publisher. www.newmexicofiberartsdirectory.com
1989 - Ongoing. Christie Family History. Minnesota Historical Society
P R O F E S S I O N A L (Selected)
The Sierra County Sun - Editor - 2019 -2020 - www.sierracountysun.com
Curator: Transforming Space – Transforming Fiber, November 4, 2016 - January 21 2017, Las Cruces Museum of Art, NM www.transformingspacetransformingfiber.com
Curator: Fiberart 2014, September–October 2014, RioBravoFineArt Gallery, Truth or Consequences NM –
36 Fiber Artists, 14 NM Communities, NY, MN, CA
Critical Reflection: The Windows by Harold Joe Waldrum at RioBravoFineArt, Truth or Consequences, NM.
By Susan A Christie, published in THE Magazine, Santa Fe, NM. December 2012-January 2013
Curator: Deborah Klezmer, Fictions, Glassworks. November 2011-March 2012, RioBravoFineArt Gallery,
Truth or Consequences, NM
Critical Reflection: Fictions by Susan Christie, THE Magazine, Santa Fe, NM. February/March 2012
A Biographical Chronology: Harold Joe Waldrum, 1934––2003. Written by Susan A. Christie
Published by RioBravoFineArt Gallery, 2012
Curator: Nuts on Bolts, 15 artist/textile art yardage exhibition, SACK's Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 1983.
Documentation collected by the Minnesota Historical Society
G A L L E R I S T (Selected)
RioBravoFineArt Gallery, Truth or Consequences, NM. 2006 – 2015. Consultant: Organizational, Curatorial,
Text, Documentation, Installation, Press, and Web
WildCrane Studio: Co-Founder/Ennis, MT 2001 – 2006
Gallery Founder/Director, Minneapolis, & Wayzata, MN 1982 – 1989 (Gallery Exhibition Files Collected by the Minnesota Historical Society.) The gallery's focus was Fiberart and Various Media.
P R O J E C T S - G E N E R A L (Selected)
Consultant for Entrepreneurs
Founder/Textile Silkscreen Studio
Author/Creative Agency Project/Originated the template and text for a horticultural library series
Director/installation of large scale horticultural environments in public spaces
E D U C A T I O N (Selected)
Note: My first introduction to Asia, in the early 1970s, was with Minnihon: the Japanese Cultural Center in Minneapolis. My subsequent experience was a study trip to China in 1984, to attend the Zhejiang Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China. We were the first group of Americans, by invitation, to attend this school of 400 students and 200 instructors.
My background in the history of both countries is extensive. The histories of both are very different.
My comments here are about China and its history of periods of repression and openness. Today, watching the increasing change in the treatment of other countries and other people within and without their territory during, again, a period of repression, leads me to no longer use my background to produce any artwork influenced by nor in support of their behavior.
My time with Reiko Ito Shellum at Minnihon, my past relationship with the Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis and other studies, returns me to my first, and very positive, connection with the culture of Japan.
I stated a number of years ago that I was an American and that my focus would be centered from the US.
University of Minnesota, B.A Cultural Anthropology/Art
University of Minnesota, Post-Graduate Horticulture
Minnihon, The Japanese Cultural Center, Minneapolis, MN
Zhejiang Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Independent studies: Reiko Ito Shellum, Wong Wucius, Cheng-Khee Chee, Zhuo He-jun, Gu Wenda, Wang Dong-lIng
Wong Wucius www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0J0epE9CmI
Gu Wenda www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhZp9J7QbJI
Wong Dong-ling www.metmuseum.org/metmedia/video/collections/asian/wang-dongling-ink-art
Etching Press Printmaking: Printmaking Center, College of Santa Fe, NM & Various Facilities.
Independent Studies, Contemporary American Art
T R A V E L – LONG AND SHORT (Selected)
USA 49 States: Long – Minnesota (Minneapolis and vicinity); Montana (Ennis); Seattle & Bainbridge Island, WA; New Mexico (Dixon, Angel Fire, Truth or Consequences); St. John, USVI; PR China.
Short –England, Scotland, Hong Kong, Japan, Martinique, Aruba, St. Thomas, Hawaii, US Northwest Coast,
Vancouver Island, Vancouver, Alert Bay, San Juan Islands, Bahamas.
2022 - Curator
una exhibicion des artes de la fibra : an exhibition of fiber arts
SHOWCASING: Members of the New Mexico Fiber Arts Directory
November - December 2022
www.newmexicofiberartsdirectory.com
2021 - The Mountain West Fiber Arts Directory - Founder, Editor, Publisher.
www.mountainwestfiberartsdirectory.com
2020 - 2021 Curator: Donna Monroe Retrospective - RioBravoFineArt Gallery - November 14, 2020 - February 28, 2021,
@RioBravoFineArt Gallery, Truth or Consequences, NM 87901,
www.riobravofineartgallery.com
www.donnamonroeartist.com
2020 - Ongoing. Webmaster and Communications Facilitator, SCARS, the Sierra County Animal Rescue Society, Donations are Always Welcome!!!
www.sierracountyanimalrescuesociety.com
2019 - Ongoing. FLAXall things fiber - Truth or Consequences, NM 2019 - www.flaxallthingsfiber.com
2017 - Ongoing. The New Mexico Fiber Arts Directory - Founder, Editor, Publisher. www.newmexicofiberartsdirectory.com
1989 - Ongoing. Christie Family History. Minnesota Historical Society
P R O F E S S I O N A L (Selected)
The Sierra County Sun - Editor - 2019 -2020 - www.sierracountysun.com
Curator: Transforming Space – Transforming Fiber, November 4, 2016 - January 21 2017, Las Cruces Museum of Art, NM www.transformingspacetransformingfiber.com
Curator: Fiberart 2014, September–October 2014, RioBravoFineArt Gallery, Truth or Consequences NM –
36 Fiber Artists, 14 NM Communities, NY, MN, CA
Critical Reflection: The Windows by Harold Joe Waldrum at RioBravoFineArt, Truth or Consequences, NM.
By Susan A Christie, published in THE Magazine, Santa Fe, NM. December 2012-January 2013
Curator: Deborah Klezmer, Fictions, Glassworks. November 2011-March 2012, RioBravoFineArt Gallery,
Truth or Consequences, NM
Critical Reflection: Fictions by Susan Christie, THE Magazine, Santa Fe, NM. February/March 2012
A Biographical Chronology: Harold Joe Waldrum, 1934––2003. Written by Susan A. Christie
Published by RioBravoFineArt Gallery, 2012
Curator: Nuts on Bolts, 15 artist/textile art yardage exhibition, SACK's Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 1983.
Documentation collected by the Minnesota Historical Society
G A L L E R I S T (Selected)
RioBravoFineArt Gallery, Truth or Consequences, NM. 2006 – 2015. Consultant: Organizational, Curatorial,
Text, Documentation, Installation, Press, and Web
WildCrane Studio: Co-Founder/Ennis, MT 2001 – 2006
Gallery Founder/Director, Minneapolis, & Wayzata, MN 1982 – 1989 (Gallery Exhibition Files Collected by the Minnesota Historical Society.) The gallery's focus was Fiberart and Various Media.
P R O J E C T S - G E N E R A L (Selected)
Consultant for Entrepreneurs
Founder/Textile Silkscreen Studio
Author/Creative Agency Project/Originated the template and text for a horticultural library series
Director/installation of large scale horticultural environments in public spaces
E D U C A T I O N (Selected)
Note: My first introduction to Asia, in the early 1970s, was with Minnihon: the Japanese Cultural Center in Minneapolis. My subsequent experience was a study trip to China in 1984, to attend the Zhejiang Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China. We were the first group of Americans, by invitation, to attend this school of 400 students and 200 instructors.
My background in the history of both countries is extensive. The histories of both are very different.
My comments here are about China and its history of periods of repression and openness. Today, watching the increasing change in the treatment of other countries and other people within and without their territory during, again, a period of repression, leads me to no longer use my background to produce any artwork influenced by nor in support of their behavior.
My time with Reiko Ito Shellum at Minnihon, my past relationship with the Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis and other studies, returns me to my first, and very positive, connection with the culture of Japan.
I stated a number of years ago that I was an American and that my focus would be centered from the US.
University of Minnesota, B.A Cultural Anthropology/Art
University of Minnesota, Post-Graduate Horticulture
Minnihon, The Japanese Cultural Center, Minneapolis, MN
Zhejiang Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Independent studies: Reiko Ito Shellum, Wong Wucius, Cheng-Khee Chee, Zhuo He-jun, Gu Wenda, Wang Dong-lIng
Wong Wucius www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0J0epE9CmI
Gu Wenda www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhZp9J7QbJI
Wong Dong-ling www.metmuseum.org/metmedia/video/collections/asian/wang-dongling-ink-art
Etching Press Printmaking: Printmaking Center, College of Santa Fe, NM & Various Facilities.
Independent Studies, Contemporary American Art
T R A V E L – LONG AND SHORT (Selected)
USA 49 States: Long – Minnesota (Minneapolis and vicinity); Montana (Ennis); Seattle & Bainbridge Island, WA; New Mexico (Dixon, Angel Fire, Truth or Consequences); St. John, USVI; PR China.
Short –England, Scotland, Hong Kong, Japan, Martinique, Aruba, St. Thomas, Hawaii, US Northwest Coast,
Vancouver Island, Vancouver, Alert Bay, San Juan Islands, Bahamas.