{"id":24401,"date":"2016-01-12T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=24401"},"modified":"2016-01-13T09:07:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T17:07:15","slug":"susan-omalley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/12\/susan-omalley\/","title":{"rendered":"susan o’malley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you so much to everyone who\u00a0entered yesterday’s give-away! This is such a beautiful book\/project, with partial proceeds going to the\u00a0Susan O’Malley Memorial Fund for the Arts<\/a><\/strong>, so if you didn’t win feel free to pick up a copy via\u00a0Amazon,<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Chronicle Books<\/a> or in any major bookstore. Ok, enough suspense… the winner is… Jess Carter<\/strong> {Jess Carter ceramics}<\/em>! Congratulations Jess, and again, thanks to all of you for amazing comments and allowing this story to touch your heart. And remember, ART BEFORE DISHES!<\/p>\n

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Beautiful, funny, inspiring, and unfortunately, heartbreaking. This gorgeous artsy book, titled “Advice from my 80-year-old- self”<\/a>,\u00a0officially hits shelves today<\/span> …\u00a0<\/em>and now I’m not sure what to say. I’ve been sitting here for about five minutes staring at the screen trying\u00a0to write about this project, and the woman\u00a0behind it, American artist Susan O’Malley<\/a>. She’s an artist known for her text-based work that is filled with color and positive messages. Very sadly, while she was working on this project, early in 2015 Susan\u00a0died suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of 38. She was less than a week away from giving birth to her twin daughters, Reyna and Lucy, who also passed away. Devastating. This book was already filled with amazing, inspiring advice – from 100 people ranging in age from 7 to 88 – but now it seems like these words of wisdom are even more important. “Try new things, it’s ok to make mistakes” ~ Emilia, 12 ; “This is your life, love it” ~ Alicia, 37 \u00a0; “Art before dishes” ~ Lea, 62… and of course, “Live each day as if it’s your last” ~ Abdul, 73. It’s a tragedy that Susan left this world\u00a0far too early, but we can listen to these beautiful lessons and apply them to our own lives. For Susan.<\/p>\n

Chronicle Books will donate partial proceeds from this book to the\u00a0Susan O’Malley Memorial Fund for the Arts<\/a>.<\/strong> You can find this book on Amazon<\/a>, or at Chronicle Books<\/a>… and keep your eye out in bookshops all over the world.<\/p>\n

ps. I have one copy of this beautiful book to\u00a0give away…\u00a0just leave a comment below and I’ll draw one name tomorrow, Wednesday January 13th at 9am PST. Good luck xo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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