{"id":1392,"date":"2010-03-24T07:53:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2015-12-27T01:05:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T06:05:12","slug":"valorie-schleicher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2010\/03\/valorie-schleicher\/","title":{"rendered":"Valorie Schleicher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Another Milwaukee artist who I met through my searches is Valorie Schleicher. I was taken with her unusual sculptural form, particularly her Strong Woman series. When I spoke with Valorie, she explained that she had been inspired recently by the death of Alexander Maqueen, who took his life as a result of his mother&#8217;s death. It was interesting to us both in that conversation, how this talented fashion designer&#8217;s ideas for his designs may have been inspired by his mother and then with her death it was too much for him to bear. Here are just a few of her wonderful sculptures that can also be found on <a title=\"Valorie Schleicher's website\" href=\"http:\/\/valorieschleicher.wordpress.com\/studio-news\/culture-strong-woman-series\/\" target=\"_blank\">Valorie&#8217;s website<\/a>. She states, &#8220;<em>Culture is my Art and inspiration used in my technique and my understanding and exploration of the world around me.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/03\/strong-woman-series-by-valorie-schleicher.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1394\" title=\"strong-woman-series-by-valorie-schleicher\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/03\/strong-woman-series-by-valorie-schleicher.png\" alt=\"strong-woman-series-by-valorie-schleicher\" width=\"332\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/strong-woman-series-by-valorie-schleicher.png 332w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/strong-woman-series-by-valorie-schleicher-296x300.png 296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/03\/symbols-of-jen-by-valorie-schleicher.png\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/03\/flowers-of-tina-by-valorie-schleicher.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1396\" title=\"flowers-of-tina-by-valorie-schleicher. 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When I spoke with Valorie, she explained that she had been inspired recently by the death of Alexander Maqueen, who took his life as a result of his mother&#8217;s death. It was interesting to us both in that conversation, how this talented fashion designer&#8217;s ideas for his designs may have been inspired by his mother and then with her death it was too much for him to bear. Here are just a few of her wonderful sculptures that can also be found on Valorie&#8217;s website. She states, &#8220;Culture is my Art and inspiration used in my technique and my understanding and exploration of the world around me.&#8220; Not only is Valorie quite talented but she has a wealth of connections with other artists and many groups of which she is a member. When I was looking for a source, she was more than happy to try to provide. I appreciate her help and resourcefulness. I look forward to her next sculptural endeavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,6,100],"tags":[1216,1217,1219,1218],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","category-inspiration","category-sculpture","tag-milwaukee","tag-strong-woman","tag-valorie-schleicher","tag-wisconsin-artist"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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