A few years ago, if you would have asked me how I met Susan Van Sleet, author of the newly-released memoir, Mary & Me Beyond the Canvas: An Extraordinary Story of Adoption, Loss, and Reunion, [...]
In honor of Mother’s Day and the lesser known holiday, Birthmothers’ Day (which was observed last Saturday as a day for women whose children have been placed for adoption to [...]
Nearly two years after the birth and placement of Susan’s daughter, in the spring of 1968 while on vacation in California, she took time for a day of beach combing …and kept one handful of [...]
During the period that followed her daughter’s birth and relinquishment in 1966, birthmother Susan Van Sleet portrayed what she describes as “gut-sensing” artworks. Numerous [...]
“Daisy” is the first in a collection of original poems and paintings depicting a little girl who “grew up on canvas”, created by birthmother Susan Van Sleet, following the [...]
