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Items of Interest about Louise B. Hansen

Louise enjoys music and is a professional musician. She plays bass and was with the Utah Symphony for 5 or 6 years and played 25 years with the Terra Haute Symphony. She says for the past 50 years she has played bass wherever she lived. Louise went to Germany in 1957 as a music teacher but, since the school had no instruments, that first year she ended up teaching arts and general music.

Rehearsal - Watercolor by Louise Hansen

Louise taught junior high in a service school during her first year in Germany. The school had very little equipment or paint, but she was still expected to teach one or two classes per week to every junior high student. She says, "We learned 365 ways to fold paper." The next two years she taught high school and she feels that experience was as good as the first year was difficult. After getting married, she returned to Utah and received her Master of Fine Art from Brigham Young University where she also taught. She lived in Washington D. C. while her husband did post-doctoral work there. Then in 1968 they moved to Indiana. Louise has taught in public elementary schools in Indiana as well as at Indiana State University. She has also taught watercolor classes in her home studio.

Folded Paper Fish Mobile by Louise Hansen

Louise has done sculpting and carving. She took a sculpting class 50 years ago and had to work in many mediums, including clay, terra cotta, and wire. The idea for the first Prairie Wind developed at that time. Louise's fellow students called it Neuritis and Neuralgia because, to them, the lady holding her hair in place looked like she was holding her head in pain. Louise has carved sculptural wooden bowls and has a trio of birds carved from the scraps of the bowls. She also has an "orchestra" of clay musicians adorning one of her shelves.

Prairie Wind - clay sculpture by Louise Hansen

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Sources of information: From interviews with Louise B. Hansen

All artwork is protected by copyright of the artist.

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