Su­san Moore Art Gallery

Ella Meyer 

Staff Writer 

Mishawaka – If you’ve got­ten the chance to visit the Weaver Art Gallery in the Ever­est-Rohrer build­ing re­cently, you’ve prob­a­bly no­ticed that there are pho­tographs on dis­play by the artist Su­san Moore. I spoke with Ms. Moore to learn more about her cre­ative process sur­round­ing her work. These pho­tographs have been care­fully cu­rated to show a spe­cific style of her art­work. Her process in­cludes mold­ing ce­ramic shapes and then pro­ject­ing her pho­tographs onto them, cre­at­ing frag­ments of scenes com­bined into one piece in each of the pic­tures. If you look along the wall out­side of the Weaver Gallery, you will no­tice some pho­tographs that look like pic­tures of large, white walls. How­ever, these pho­tos were cre­ated by lin­ing up white sheets of pa­per and pro­ject­ing pic­tures onto them, ex­per­i­ment­ing with a bal­ance of light and im­age.  

Ms. Moore said she got her first cam­era in high school and, “al­ways re­ally en­joyed pho­tog­ra­phy. It al­lows you to have ac­cess to dif­fer­ent peo­ple and places and things.” She talked to me about what it’s like to cre­ate art­work and said she has to make space and time specif­i­cally for cre­at­ing when she is­n’t dis­tracted by any­thing else. When she took the pho­tos dis­played in the Weaver Gallery, she was stay­ing in France and work­ing with other artists every day, which helped her to fo­cus solely on her art. When asked about what in­spires her to cre­ate, she said, “Ideas come from all dif­fer­ent places and all dif­fer­ent ex­pe­ri­ences; it’s not any one thing, and that’s why I think artists are unique peo­ple, be­cause they’re in­flu­enced by all dif­fer­ent el­e­ments. You have to be open to ideas; you don’t know where your ideas are go­ing to come from.” 

Please visit the Weaver Gallery by No­vem­ber 17^th to see the unique and beau­ti­ful art­work Su­san Moore has cre­ated!