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Hobbies:
paddling with gators
Music:
Paint to it, play it, can't live well without it. Musical confluences listed on my website in the Harmonic Convergence/Dragon Scales and Hurricanes series. Bruce Cockburn to Bach
Books:
Too many to list, really. Love a good travel essay. Shapeshifting--most recent is The Wood Wife by Terri Windling;unclassifiably riveting--The Big Why (Rockwell Kent in Newfoundland); urban fantasy most by Charles Delint; deconstructing the weirdness of Florida--early Carl Hiaassen
Places:
currently called to the high desert to create a new series of shape shifters.
Food:
exotic, well-spiced
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My statement
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I create art for the mind and body--glorious silk paintings morph like a shape-shifting mermaid or selkie, or my birth totem Raven, who brings magic. The newer pieces nod to the old myths before I change the stories, for nothing is predetermined.
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Professional history
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Designer and colorist, a writer and visual storyteller creating new mythologies. Translates and integrates the patterns of nature and world cultures, exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. Provides custom design services for hotels and private homes, product branding identity, and licensing for reproduction by manufacturers including textiles, Hawaiian shirts, women’s apparel, giftware and home goods.
An adventurous world traveler, Surdut saturates her luminous art with the extraordinary colors of environments real and imagined. Noted for combining rich jewel tones and fluid movement during a 10-year career designing and fabricating architectural art glass in the Washington, D.C. area, the artist garnered commissions for private and public spaces, including 24 windows in a Middle Eastern palace.
Created the original painting Come Walk With Me presented by the city of Sarasota to the mayoral delegation from Vladimir, Russia in January 2007, as well as a painting for a Cambodian relief organization for land mine victims.
As a journalist and commentator, examines topics ranging from sewers to senators. Noted for artists' profiles and art business articles. Served as arts editor and feature writer, and produced Talking Life: Walter Harrod's Stories an oral history CD told by an 86-year old woodworker. National Public Radio aired her essays on diverse issues including a six-part series on the business of art. During her career, projects involving visual art and writing have received multiple grant support, notably from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Harvard Historical Society.
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Disciplines
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| Fiber Arts | Painting |
| Web | Other |
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Shows:
Myth, Masks, Rites & Rituals at Aurora Colors Gallery, Petaluma, CA. Meet me at the Masquerade Oct 30. features some of my best mythologies including Pomegranate Stain, Red Tide & Dragon Scales, and Spirits of the Millstone
Commissions:
Check the news page of my site. For commentaries and updates, check my blog for
Mural In Zen Time
Cats for the Mind
Projects:
Dream Vessels Project--go to http://www.bethsurdut.com/dream_vessels_project.htm for information on creative visualization made real
Collaborations:
I don't usually play well with others, though I'm happy to foster creativity
Publications:
Get thee to www.bethsurdut.com
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