Artist Resume Sue Robishaw

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    A self-taught artist, Sue started working in wood twenty-five years ago, expanding into other areas of the arts in the years since. A writer of both fiction and non-fiction, she also keeps alive the forgotten craft of fingerweaving.
    Her work in wood ranges from abstract sculpture to live-edged boxes to hand-carved spoons. She is involved as well in the world of watercolor, blurring the line between realism and abstract in her own unique style.
    Sue’s work has received a number of awards and been involved in numerous juried and invitational shows and exhibits. She was one of five artists invited to participate in a special wood exhibit at the Neville Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and several of her sculptures were included in a special exhibit at the Michigan Governor's suites.

    "I remember the fun of being involved in class floats, dance routines, posters. That’s about as close as I got to "art" in my youth. Other than maybe finger-painting in Kindergarten.
    Years later I met an artist who knew how to see, how to turn visions into objects. He introduced me to designing, inventing, building, and carving wood. I discovered a world I love; where the hand, eye and the spirit dance, and the possibilities endless. I don’t separate art and craft, whether of life or objects. Creativity begets creativity. When I’m writing, paintings are forming in my mind; when painting, I discover a sculpture. A song becomes a watercolor, the color of the leaves a story. One area blends into another which leads to something different.
    There is so much to explore, to discover. Creative expression is difficult, fun, time consuming, challenging, satisfying, a lot of work — sometimes all at the same time. Chaotic and peaceful, it has become an everyday part of my life. It gets into everything I do, and drags me into more. It connects me to myself. It connects me to those around me. Everyone who touches my art adds to it, to me, and I to them. Along with the intensity and frustration, there is a lot of fun. The way of life I’ve chosen allows me my way of art. It’s a good way to live, and it suits me.
                                                                                            Sue Robishaw

2004
LSAA Juried Member Show — University Art Gallery, Marquette MI
Superior States, Governor’s Invitational — Lansing MI
Northern Exposure — Bonifas Art Fine Center — Juror Philip Sugden
2003
Northern Exposure — Bonifas Art Fine Center — Juror Peggy Flora Zalucha
        Bonifas Art Center Board of Trustees Purchase Prize Award
Creativity Unfolding — Solo Exhibit — Kasota Gallery, Bonifas Fine Art Center
Summer Chamber Series Intermission Display — Manistique MI
LSAA Juried Member Show — University Art Gallery, Marquette MI
2002
Northern Exposure — Bonifas Art Center, Escanaba MI — Juror Mark Mehaffey
        Honorable Mention Award
Expressions In Wood and Wool, Marquette MI — 3 Person Exhibition
Expressions Art Show & Auction, Marquette MI
Juror — Art on the Rocks, Marquette MI
2001
Northern Exposure — Bonifas Art Center, Escanaba MI — Juror Stephen Polacco
        Honorable Mention Award
Expressions Art Show & Auction, Marquette MI
LSAA Juried Member Show — University Art Gallery, Marquette MI
        Honorable Mention Award
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Show — Berkowitz Gallery, Univ. Mich.–Dearborn MI
2000
Northern Exposure — Bonifas Art Center, Escanaba MI — Juror Robert Barnum
LSAA Juried Members’ Show — University Art Gallery, Marquette MI
Language of the Lakes — Bonifas Art Center, Escanaba MI
Artists in the Round, Marquette MI
        Honorable Mention Award
1997 Northern Initiatives, Marquette MI
1995 Wood Works, Neville Public Museum, Green Bay WI — 5 person Exhibition
1993 Art on the Rocks, Marquette MI
        Best of Show Award
Framecrafters Gallery, Escanaba MI — 3 person Exhibit
1984 – 1994 Juried Art fairs such as Madison WI, Midland MI, East Lansing MI

    We live and work in our home, studio, and shop in the northwoods of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Our art, our work, our lives, and our play interweave and blend to such a degree that it is often hard to tell where one ends and the other begins, which is how we like it to be.
    Our interest in a sustainable lifestyle and world permeates our life and work. The sun provides our electricity, the wind pumps our water, and the woods and the sun heat our home and cook our food. We strive to live a non-disposable life.
    The artwork that is created by each of us reflects our lives, both inner and outer, individually and as a part of the larger communities in which we live.

Schmeck: Bowls - Sculpture/Boxes - Instruments - Spoons - Resume

Robishaw: Sculpture - Watercolors - Boxes - Fingerweaving - Resume

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