{"id":1422,"date":"2010-08-02T04:01:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T04:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2012-10-19T17:17:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T17:17:45","slug":"suzanne-l-vinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2010\/08\/02\/suzanne-l-vinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzanne L. Vinson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/27502.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"Suzanne L. Vinson\" alt=\"Suzanne L. Vinson\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Suzanne L. Vinson<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong>  Richmond, VA, U.S.A.<br \/>\n<strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/\">www.silvertreeart.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How about a brief introduction?<\/strong><br \/>\nEach day I move through the day creatively.  It\u2019s a must, as well as a lifestyle choice. I love making wares and art that others will enjoy.  Since I lead art workshops, retreats, and bereavement groups using creative expression, I\u2019m often thinking of ways to integrate blessing and ritual into my art.  Most certainly my love of people, nature, and fabric is fused into my work and my days. <\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your goal before the year 2010 ends?<\/strong><br \/>\nTo move into more retail spaces and galleries.  I would like to continue making time to lead retreats and workshops, balanced with art shows and family time.  I want to have more venues for my wares around the globe.  I\u2019m also interested in marketing my work through websites and blogs.  Sharing a good word is important and I feel fortunate to have a good word or two to share.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your biggest fear?<\/strong><br \/>\nJust one? It\u2019s not failure, but more a sense of losing the ability to create.  I\u2019m more centered, more whole when I\u2019m using my hands creatively.  Whether making dinner or making hairpins, I truly enjoy where I am in the moment and am thankful for what is in my hands. I hope to earn well so that I can continue along this path, offering my gifts to the world around me. <\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your favorite tool?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy hands.  There\u2019s so much I can do with my hands.  holding onto tools, yes, but also thinking of ways to use my hands over other tools.  I love the feel of fabrics and love cutting my own circles rather than using a template or cutting tool.  I love to finger paint on some of my works.  It\u2019s all very sacred as I use my hands to create.   <\/p>\n<p><strong>Share something random with us!<\/strong><br \/>\nI love sweeping. It\u2019s an amazing way to live my spirituality and presence to the moment and the space i live in.  I find that sweeping cleans the floor and my mind.  It\u2019s a great practice that i enjoy.  Since it\u2019s a practice, I\u2019ve started collecting the straws that are falling from my broom\u2019s natural shaping and will use them in art sometime in the future.  The broom was handmade in my city, and that too, I love.  Happy sweeping!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Suzanne L. Vinson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26917,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/26917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}