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A Home Where Art Lives

Art House
Art House
Susie Seligman’s house on Bloomington’s east side. Photography by James Kellar (See bottom for photos not in the magazine.)

BY LEE ANN SANDWEISS

You’ve probably driven by the sprawling yellow villa on Bloomington’s east side—the one with the life-size painting of Renaissance ladies peering out from a second story window—and had such thoughts as What’s the story with that house? I wonder who lives there? What in the world is it like inside?

Here are the answers:

—It is a love story about art.

—Susie Seligman, a fiber artist, lives there.

—The inside is mind-boggling! Like nothing you have ever seen! The house, filled to the brim with art, is a work of art itself.

Read the entire story here.

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