art in public

Nonsense Botany and the Owl and Pussycat update

November 11, 2025

Recently the Caplan Art Designs gallery hung what’s left of my nonsense botany on the gallery window wall! How nice is this? Here are the gallery details https://caplanartdesigns.com/ The gallery is relocating my Owl and Pussycat exhibit, starting Nov 23, to the south waterfront Daily Cafe at the tram. This is a popular public transit hub…

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How my exhibit opening went

October 4, 2024

My exhibit opening at the Caplan Art Designs Gallery went very well!! Full details, photos and videos with details and descriptions are over on my email newsletter https://sueclancy.substack.com/p/how-my-exhibit-opening-went I’m as exhausted as you might imagine. But I still want to have something on the “permanent record” of this blog so please forgive a dump of…

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Around the block

October 2, 2024

My one-person fine art exhibit at the Caplan Art Designs Gallery is opening Oct 3 from 6 to 8pm and the exhibit will run throughout October. I’ll admit that of all my new artworks the one mentioned in this post is the one I’m most looking forward to seeing people playing with during the reception.…

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Figures of Speech 2.0 opens

June 10, 2024

Early in the first week of June my exhibit Figures of Speech 2.0 was hung at Burnt Bridge Cellars. Fortunately I had help hanging everything! Thank goodness for Mark and Judy – I simply couldn’t have done it without them! Here’s how the exhibit looked just after it was hung… Then on Friday June 7…

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Portraits of trees published books and Pat

November 27, 2023

More work this week on commissioned artwork for holiday gifts – so let’s look at the trees. Vintage Books is pairing my fine art portraits of trees with some of their books about trees! Additionally Dec 9 they’ve asked me to do a live-drawing event from 1 to 3 in the afternoon. Yes, I created…

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angles we have on things: a conversation with clancy published in the salmon creek journal 2018 issue

May 1, 2018

Because I’ve been asked to I’m including in this blog post the entire interview with me for the Salmon Creek Journal 2018 issue titled “Angles We Have On Things: A Conversation with Sue Clancy” by Amanda Flynn. I asked permission to post this and it was generously granted. (The people at the Salmon Creek Journal…

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interview about my public art at WSU Vancouver

February 8, 2018

Recently, Amanda Flynn, the previous editor-in-chief of the Salmon Creek Journal at WSUV sat down with me for an hour long interview about my art-making process for the public art piece I created for the campus. It was the most comprehensive and most fun interview I think I’ve ever given. I mean I really “told-it-all”!…

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