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Piece by Piece Puts It Together

A micro-finance program takes on LA’s urban poverty with glittering mosaics and Mind’s Eye mandalas!

New Mind’s Eye Class: Work with your Hands

“I felt like my mind was literally opened a little more each week”…

Mandalas from the Minds Eye – Register today!

My popular mandala class is offered in a four-session workshop this summer in Long Beach. Click here to join us!

World Mosaics Lecture in Long Beach

My summer Southern California junket kicks off June 27th, with an international tour of fabulous mosaics. Many workshops will be offered in conjunction with ‘Tesserae: Art of Mosaic’ Exhibition.

Rockin’ out

What a great weekend. I got to be a student at IMA’s “Rockin’ with Stone Mosaics”, taught by Sophie Drouin. A multi-talent, she plays the Saw too…photos a plenty here.

Geometry for Artists: Field Report

What happens when you fan the ancient spark of creativity with a compass and ruler? See photos from the workshop!

Geometry for Artists and Artisans

with Michael S. Schneider, Ph.D.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Have you ever wondered why great works of art have an iconic quality? Find out why in this 3-hour intro session.
You don’t have to be “good at math” to enjoy and benefit from this workshop…
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Getty Villa Inspirations

In November 2008,  I did artist-at-work demos and taught several mosaic workshops. (see previous posts).

It was a fantastic! Over the course of five days, several hundred people came through the Education Court to learn about mosaics, watch me work, ask questions, and even try their hand at setting some tiles and the Hammer and Hardie.

I did a series of one-day workshops and rounded out the second week with nearly 60 different students enthusiastically taking on “Ancient Stones in Modern Contexts”.

THE COURSE covered mosaics in historical context, a tour of the new Jim Dine exhibition, along with spectacular Roman mosaics from the Villa’s permanent collection. After the tour, students were asked to settle quietly into their “mind’s eye” and make notes about their impressions and sensations. I introduced the concepts of number sequences, magic squares, symmetry and order, changing color ways, and how to draw and count out a linear sequence. As a testament to the infinity of geometric possibility, a variety of designs were created from the simple grid once there was understanding of the underlying structure.

Mosaics from the Mind’s Eye at IMA

Winter Class of 2009 has graduated at Institute of Mosaic Art – Oakland
Exhibition coming this June! For more background on the class, read on…

“I consider your Mandala class to be one of the best results of beautiful mosaics of any class I have ever seen. You obviously inspire your students to great results.
— testimonial, Linda A., Bay Area