Olga Tsoudis taught Sociology at the college level since 1993, when she started teaching as a graduate student. Even though Olga taught Sociology, she always attempted to include art in the classroom through various projects. She encouraged others to do the same. It was not surprising to see her outside on campus wearing a hat and hammering a stake into the grass where she displayed her students’ work. Olga considers herself a fulltime social activist with a huge passion for art. She retired in 2021 so that she could focus more on sharing her art and messages through art. When she can, she teaches art expression workshops at the Cancer Support Community in Flagstaff in Arizona. You can always find her in a museum or an art exhibit learning from others. Her art creations include mixed media and artifacts as she hopes to give inspiration to others for their own creations. She also photographs anything and everything around her. For this specific exhibit, she has submitted her photographs of water. When she searched her files for water photos, there were over 2000 photos to examine. Olga finds water to be soothing and a necessity for all. It not only feeds us physically, but it feeds our soul through our senses.
Water is necessary and should not be wasted. It is an element of life.
Water is soothing. Water is peaceful. Water is meditative. Water feeds us. We find it everywhere. Even in places where it is not naturally found, people create places of water for recreation and relaxing. Each of us was surrounded by water in our mother’s womb. Water soothes us. We like to hear the sound of water. We like to touch water. We like to immerse ourselves in it. We find city planning that includes water features and buildings that include a fountain.
Olga has found great comfort in water since her ovarian cancer diagnosis in January 2024.
