LOUISE JANET SCHLACHTER has been pART of the motherdogstudios ARTist-N-reZ family of friends since 1999.

 

Arriving shy with her dimpled feminine presence from her day job as a graphic designer with Hunt Oil Co, Louise quickly inhabited her studio & the hall walls of Mother Dog Studios that became her “home away from home.” She treated MDS like a magic kingdom, always welcoming new faces with her big eyes & vivacious smile of enthusiasm. Her petite hands & feet made her seem fairy like.

 

She had an ARTistc personality persona aura with an inimitable curiosity to discover the wonderfully weird & sublime, and in the original tradition of art making, she delighted in making & selecting thoughtfully personal gifts for the chosen.

 

We witnessed her growth in her art practice from small scale scribbles & doodles to the refined, meandering lines of a mature body of work. Her choice of the nocturnal moth world as a theme associated with transformation & rebirth was applicable to her own symbolic growth and evolution. Moths were “thought to carry messages from the spiritual world.” Her heart eyes were always “drawn to a flame.”

 

She was indispensable in organizing, prepping & preparing the behind-the-scenes decisions & designing invitations

for the original inimitable historical ARTCRAWL in the downtown Warehouse District.

 

Louise was an indefatigable assistant with John Runnels on two major public art projects in Phoenix, Arizona & Frisco, Texas. In Houston, she was selfless as an assistant to John Runnels on three METRO light rail station platforms. 

 

SHE is survived by her brother Doug (Houston) & her two children: Shawn Schlachter (Houston) & Kiersten Lien (Minnesota).

 

LOUISE IS MISSED deeply “inside the moments” out beyond the hall walls of motherdogstudios…