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Artisan Shares Creative Vision with Mosaics

Kitchens for Living

Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials.” At the intersection of “skilled artisan” and mosaic art” you will find Ariel Shoemaker. How did you get into creating with mosaic art? ” -Wikipedia.

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Avente Tile Talk: Interview with Nutmeg Designs

Tile Talk

This spring I was touched by the kindness of a simple gesture that few of us do in this electronic age, Margaret wrote a note thanking me for my support - on the cover was a joyful expression of her stain glass mosaics. How and when did you start creating the mosaic glass art masterpieces? Quilt blocks were my first inspiration.

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Drawing as Meditation

Margaret Almon Mosaics

In 2004, I took a drawing class at the community college, as part of my year of experimenting with different mediums, on my way to making mosaics. I slowly stopped drawing as I became engrossed with mosaics, but I came across a book on Urban Sketching at the library, and suddenly I was ready to draw again.

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Margaret Avison(1918-2007): Intensity of the Seed

Margaret Almon Mosaics

Margaret Avison reading poem via the Word Guild on Flickr(2004). Potentiality. Humble is the intensity of. It lies there. too small to cast a shadow, as the invisible is too large, compassing. light and shadow both; yet there is. a bond that makes them one. From Always Now : Collected Poems of Margaret Avison).

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Kitchen and Residential Design: Dirty, dirty bastard

Kitchen and Residential Design

The bastard who did this was in a work-release program after having been in prison since 2004. Mosaic Art NOW. New Ravenna Mosaics. Crime statistics are one thing but when people you know get murdered theres a whole new dimension to them. This hits so close to home I can barely stand it. That number would be 27. kitchen design.

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James Siena: Labyrinthian Structures at the Johnson Gallery, Cornell University through December 20, 2015

Margaret Almon Mosaics

James Siena, Heliopolis, 2004, Woodcut engraving Paper size: 12″ x 10″ Image size: 5″ x 4″ Labyrinthian Structures, Johnson Gallery, Cornell University. Photo by Wayne Stratz (2015). “I I don’t make marks. I make moves.” – James Siena.

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Houston Apartments: The Ultimate Renters Guide

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

The Runners Up District at Greenbriar Hanover Southampton Plaza Museum District Mosaic on Hermann Park The Circle at Hermann Park The Parklane River Oaks/Afton Oaks River Oaks is the epitome of Houston decadence: sprawling estates and conspicuous luxury in the heart of the city.

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