Artist Suzie Hightshoe | Stop the Violets Women's Organic Crew Sweatshirt
What if the most powerful protest was a flower? Bold, unapologetic, impossible to ignore — Suzie Hightshoe painted blooms so vivid they stop you in your tracks and whisper something important: stop the violence. Stop the silence. Stop looking away. If everyone had a little more coffee, a little more caring, and a lot more candid conversation — we could stop the violets. One conversation at a time. One honest moment at a time. Life is too short for conflict and division — and yet it can feel inescapable. But each of us has more power than we think. What we post, the words we choose when we disagree, the tone we bring, the timing we pick — it all adds up. Every act of intentional kindness, every moment of choosing curiosity over judgment, is a step toward stopping the violets — and starting something better. This sweatshirt carries the bloom across the front and four mini violets running down the back — for the ones who believe beauty and boldness can change things. Because they can. 💜
Suzie Hightshoe is an Iowa educator, storyteller, and photographer whose life's work has been built on a single, luminous belief: that if we are quiet enough, we can hear the story the world is trying to tell us.
Born into a family with more than 150 years of combined teaching legacy — her aunts' manuscripts, plays, poems, and sheet music now preserved at the Museum of Education at the University of Northern Iowa — Suzie carried that legacy into 40 years of her own classroom. Along the way she earned the National Social Studies Teacher of the Year award (1996), traveled to Japan as a Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher, and served as an educational ambassador to Russia, bringing cultures together through the universal language of story. Her fifth graders slept under the stars during Iowa's Sesquicentennial. They doused old cemeteries, rode steamboats on the Mississippi, walked alongside wagon trains, and shared Norwegian dinners in Decorah. History was never something Suzie taught from behind a desk.
For Suzie, photography IS storytelling — the camera lens a portal through which she can hear thunder, smell lilies, feel the flutter of a kitten's fur, and taste the first sip of a bold morning coffee. Her art invites you to slow down, look closer, and find meaning in the places and faces most people walk right past.
"Everything and everyone is Art." — Suzie Hightshoe
About this Crew Sweatshirt:
• Women's fit — available in sizes S through 2XL, every design, every color
• 85% organic cotton, 15% recycled polyester — soft, sustainable, substantial
• GOTS and GRS certified — independently verified organic and recycled content
• Drop shoulders, ribbed crew neck and cuffs, side-seamed construction
• Direct-to-Garment (DTG) printing across two print areas: front and back
• Tested in real life: washed many times, still looks like the day it arrived
What if the most powerful protest was a flower? Bold, unapologetic, impossible to ignore — Suzie Hightshoe painted blooms so vivid they stop you in your tracks and whisper something important: stop the violence. Stop the silence. Stop looking away. If everyone had a little more coffee, a little more caring, and a lot more candid conversation — we could stop the violets. One conversation at a time. One honest moment at a time. Life is too short for conflict and division — and yet it can feel inescapable. But each of us has more power than we think. What we post, the words we choose when we disagree, the tone we bring, the timing we pick — it all adds up. Every act of intentional kindness, every moment of choosing curiosity over judgment, is a step toward stopping the violets — and starting something better. This sweatshirt carries the bloom across the front and four mini violets running down the back — for the ones who believe beauty and boldness can change things. Because they can. 💜
Suzie Hightshoe is an Iowa educator, storyteller, and photographer whose life's work has been built on a single, luminous belief: that if we are quiet enough, we can hear the story the world is trying to tell us.
Born into a family with more than 150 years of combined teaching legacy — her aunts' manuscripts, plays, poems, and sheet music now preserved at the Museum of Education at the University of Northern Iowa — Suzie carried that legacy into 40 years of her own classroom. Along the way she earned the National Social Studies Teacher of the Year award (1996), traveled to Japan as a Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher, and served as an educational ambassador to Russia, bringing cultures together through the universal language of story. Her fifth graders slept under the stars during Iowa's Sesquicentennial. They doused old cemeteries, rode steamboats on the Mississippi, walked alongside wagon trains, and shared Norwegian dinners in Decorah. History was never something Suzie taught from behind a desk.
For Suzie, photography IS storytelling — the camera lens a portal through which she can hear thunder, smell lilies, feel the flutter of a kitten's fur, and taste the first sip of a bold morning coffee. Her art invites you to slow down, look closer, and find meaning in the places and faces most people walk right past.
"Everything and everyone is Art." — Suzie Hightshoe
About this Crew Sweatshirt:
• Women's fit — available in sizes S through 2XL, every design, every color
• 85% organic cotton, 15% recycled polyester — soft, sustainable, substantial
• GOTS and GRS certified — independently verified organic and recycled content
• Drop shoulders, ribbed crew neck and cuffs, side-seamed construction
• Direct-to-Garment (DTG) printing across two print areas: front and back
• Tested in real life: washed many times, still looks like the day it arrived
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