Experience | Sue Jensen

Medium: Hand-glazed Stoneware

Involvement: Created the original thumbnails and samples, and painted all or most of plates produced during winter 2013.

Ice Skating Chicken

For: M.A. Hadley Pottery

Objective: Create new designs in the Hadley style. These new designs were based on existing patterns, but used in a new way.

Medium: Hand-glazed Stoneware

Involvement: Created the original thumbnails and samples, and painted all or most of plates produced during winter 2013.

Ice Skating Horse

For: M.A. Hadley Pottery

Objective: Create new designs in the Hadley style. These new designs were based on existing patterns, but used in a new way.

Medium: Hand-glazed Stoneware

Involvement: Created the original thumbnails and samples, and painted all or most of plates produced during winter 2013.

Ice Skating Pig

For: M.A. Hadley Pottery

Objective: Create new designs in the Hadley style. These new designs were based on existing patterns, but used in a new way.

Medium: Hand-glazed Stoneware

Involvement: Created the original thumbnails and samples, and painted all or most of plates produced during winter 2013.

Ice Skating Lamb

For: M.A. Hadley Pottery

Objective: Create new designs in the Hadley style. These new designs were based on existing patterns, but used in a new way.

Medium: Hand-glazed Stoneware

Involvement: Created the original thumbnails and samples, and painted all or most of plates produced.

Happy Haunting

For: M.A. Hadley Pottery

Objective: Introduce new patterns to entice existing customers who already own extensive collections.

Medium: Leaded Stained Glass

Involvement: Drew the 'cartoon' from a description of what the customer wanted. Enlarged the cartoon after approval, purchased materials and created the window.

Stained-glass Rose Window

For: Private client

Objective: To replace a regular window with one that blocked a bad view.

Medium: Leaded Stained Glass

Involvement: I drew the 'cartoon' (small thumbnail sketch) of the window from description of what the customer wanted.

Window 'cartoon'

For: Private client

Objective: The customer wanted something more interesting than plain glass to fill a 9 foot by 5 foot expanse, and wanted a spider plant to be part of the window (rather than an actual plant in front of it.)

Medium: Leaded Stained Glass

Involvement: Enlarged the cartoon, purchased materials and created the window.

Spider Plant Window

For: Private client

Objective: After installation, the customer told me that numerous people thought the spider plant was LIVE and hanging in front of regular window -- until, on closer inspection they realized it WAS the window!

Medium: Web Site Design

Involvement: Presented three wireframes of concepts to then director, Thomas Treacy. Built the one he chose in Dreamweaver.

Antonelli Institute splash

For: Antonelli Institute, circa 2000

Objective: Develop Antonelli's first professional site. In 1999 the school's financial aid officer was running the site. Dr. Treacy wanted something that better reflected the school's art and photography programs.

Medium: Web Site Design

Involvement: Presented three wireframes of concepts to then director, Thomas Treacy. Built the one he chose in Dreamweaver.

Antonelli Institute Site

For: Antonelli Institute, circa 2000

Objective: Develop Antonelli's first professional site. In 1999 the school's financial aid officer was running the site. Dr. Treacy wanted something that better reflected the school's art and photography programs.

Medium: Found Objects

Involvement: Created the original craft, and wrote the instructions. They also used the photo I sent in my submission in the magazine.

Dangling Spider

For: Highlights for Children

Objective: Create a simple craft project using (at the time) readily available (i.e. cheap to free) supplies - an empty film canister might be more difficult to acquire now!

Medium: Writing Workshop

Involvement: Generated the idea, set up the curriculum, and worked with about twenty 4th and 5th graders, for three 1 hour long sessions per workshop, annually between 1995 and 2003.

Plot, Scene and Character

For: North Penn School District, Lansdale PA

Objective:The workshop taught students to look at a photo and develop a character by inventing who the person might be, then place the character the in a setting, and speculate how they might interact.

Medium: Writing Workshop

Involvement: Generated the idea, set up the curriculum, and worked with about twenty 4th and 5th graders, for three 1 hour long sessions per workshop, annually between 1995 and 2003.

Details, Details!

For: North Penn School District, Lansdale PA

Objective: After developing characters, the students looked around the classroom to find details to use in their setting. Sometimes they started acting out their characters, and wrote a script instead of a short story!

Medium: Newspaper Article

Involvement: Wrote numerous Front page, business, lifestyles and special sections articles. Produced a bi-weekly family dining column reviewing local restaurants

For the Reporter, byline

For: The Reporter Newspaper, Landale

Objective: Find out the details surrounding various events (such as the Philadelphia Folk Festival, or a featured reading program) and deliver useful information on how to attend, what to bring (and what to avoid.)

Now that I'm a mother too, I realize there are some things you really should have taught me...

Medium: Greeting Card Copy

Involvement: The studio illustrated the card. I wrote the copy for the card (except the original version featured a cat, rather than Play-doh.)

Happy Mother's Day

For: Oatmeal Studios

Objective: To have fun brainstorming ideas, quickly, to get the creative juices flowing. Oatmeal Studios features quirky ideas, and submitting to them was fun.