Campers build earth mosaic with recycled bottles, cans

Well the picture is not that good – detail is hard to see… 
Collect more than 1,600 recycled cans and bottles. Add some creative campers and innovative staff. Get an Earth mosaic.
Last Monday, Newmarket campers celebrated Green Day with Earth-friendly activities at the summer “Rec”tile Adventure Camp in the field behind the community center. [...]

Jerusalem: 2000 year-old ashes and mosaics

The renovation of the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem that started in 1967 lasted over 15 years. During the construction of the Kotel Yeshiva over the Western Wall’s plaza, an impressive building complex was discovered including the homes of affluent Jews, and ashes from the city’s destruction in 70 AD.  Findings reveal the lavish lifestyle of [...]

Video on Sicis

Sicis in New York: An Italian touch… a showroom of colors.

Gotta love YouTube – I watched this video first without the translation.  LOL!  but I was happy just seeing all the mosaics.  Found this one on YouTube!  Enjoy! 

Artist Gwen Basilica Mosaic Mural in New London

Gwen Basilica is in her element. Wisps of her long curly hair escape from beneath a white hardhat as she stands on a scissor platform 15 feet in the air, gluing pieces of glass to a wall. The Mohegans, through M&M Tile of Uncasville, hired her to create a 16-by-15-foot mosaic in Sunrise Square, which [...]

Monet’s Gardens at Giverny

 
It’s a joyous riot of color, abundant and flowing, a corner of nature just barely tamed, a paradise made to order by an Impressionist to please the eye and provide endless motifs to paint. “What I need most are flowers, always, always,” said Claude Monet (1840-1926) . Eight decades after his death , his garden [...]

Ilminster’s Swanmead School

YOUNGSTERS at Ilminster’s Swanmead School showed off their work as part of a special nurture group. The group gives youngsters topic based learning and concentrated on a growing theme. Children created and maintained their own garden and created original mosaics throughout the summer term. Business from in and around Ilminster donated flowers and equipment to [...]

Local glass artist turns talents to designing guitar

Judy Kean is the first to admit she doesn’t really know a lot about guitars.
But that didn’t stop her from participating in United Way’s GuitarMania, a community art project which has raised $1.5 million for the United Way and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum’s education fund. Companies or individuals sponsor the [...]

Window Slams on Alleged Stained Glass Thieves

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A trio of thieves found a window of opportunity in the homes they burglarized. Starting in late May, police said, the thieves dressed as construction workers as they raided vacant homes that were either clearly being renovated or for sale in the Twin Cities area, stealing leaded and stained-glass windows worth [...]

Indiana Mosaic Murals to be done

The Starr-Gennett Foundation in September will establish the Gennett Walk of Fame to honor 10 artists who recorded at Gennett Recording Studio in Richmond. The Walk of Fame will be located along South First Street in Richmond. The project will include mosaic emblems of the artists being honored. Musicians to be honored in the Gennett [...]

Sculptor works with Braddock youth to create mosaic welcome sign

But Mr. Simon’s idea of a public service art project gnawed at him for a while until a few months ago, when he was driving over the Rankin Bridge into Braddock. “I noticed the small and old ‘Welcome to Braddock’ sign and I thought that maybe we should do a mosaic of a new and [...]