Masters of glass create models of sea creatures

From The Daily News Tribune
By Chris Bergeron

It makes perfect sense that a 19th-century German glass artisan with a pet snail named Lotte — who kept the pet’s shell in an ornate box after she died — devoted his life to capturing the ephemeral anatomies of nature’s most elusive sea creatures.
For Rudolph Blaschka, [...]

Mosaic totems to hover over Mount Greenwood Park

From the Southtown Star
BY Brian Marchetti Correspondent

The Mount Greenwood Park Field House hosted an event Wednesday evening to display artwork intended to decorate mosaic totems for the new play lot currently under construction.
Several months ago, a parent voiced concerns about the unsafe conditions of the playground. Other community members agreed putting in motion plans to [...]

Painting with glass and giving with class

From the OC Register
By RICHARD CHANG

Plastics.
That’s the famous line and terse career recommendation from the 1967 film, “The Graduate.”
That’s also the line of work Jorge G. Burtin of Laguna Beach followed faithfully and successfully for years. He made enough money to retire early, at 46, in 2005.
Now he’s pursuing his real dream and a new [...]

Brighton mosaic marks memory

EVEN though former Brighton Primary School crossing guard Gordon Kodagoda died last year, the school entrance beside the Wilson St crossing he faithfully manned for 17 years will always be known as “Gordon’s Gate”.
Staff and students at the school last week paid tribute to their crossing supervisor, unveiling a mosaic they made depicting Mr Kodagoda [...]

Gracing the city’s landmarks

From nydailynews.com
BY LORE CROGHAN
DAILY NEWS BUSINESS WRITER

From the Fire Department’s 9/11 memorial to historic churches and landmark buildings, some of the city’s most hallowed sites bear the old-world work of a Manhattan company founded 110 years ago.
Stained glass and intricate metalwork are specialties of Rambusch Decorating, which is co-owned by twins Edwin and Martin Rambusch, [...]

Wildfire survivors turn pieces salvaged into art at workshop

From SignOnSanDiego.com
By Linda Lou

Lisa Horner figures her beloved antique plates fell about eight feet from a china hutch and pie safe when the Rice Canyon fire ravaged her mobile home park in October.
She can no longer serve food on her grandmothers’ and great-grandmother’s special-occasion dishes – they’re in shards – but she won’t let them [...]

Uncertain future for mother-son tile

From nyunews.com
by Nicole He

For many residents of Greenwich Village, the Washington Square Park renovations represent the end of the area’s unique character. But for Wendy Rochman, who graduated from NYU in 1973, the construction may literally tear up a piece of her past.
In the spring of her senior year, Rochman, a fine arts major, was [...]

Ancient artifacts seized near Rome

From the seattlepi.com
By FRANCES D’EMILIO

Police seized some 1,000 ancient artifacts from a wealthy Italian man’s country house outside Rome that were stolen from one of Emperor Trajan’s villas, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Authorities contend the artifacts, which were being used to decorate the man’s weekend residence, were ripped off the walls of what is believed to be [...]

Anne Robinson met her match in Martin

LOL! great article on Martin Cheek who was on The Weakest Link in UK

ANNE Robinson was no match for mosaic artist Martin Cheek who not only won her quiz show The Weakest Link but managed to laugh off her scathing attacks.
However, the 49-year-old admits that the BBC2 presenter’s jibes did rattle him, especially when the [...]

Treasure hunt – quest for stained glass windows at Sacred Heart

From Wickedlocal.com
By Cathy Conley

When parishioners celebrate their first Easter in the newly built Sacred Heart Church, light will stream in through magnificent stained glass windows.
The quest to find these windows is a story of luck, tenacity, and faith.
Sacred Heart burned to the ground on June 8, 2005.
The 14 brilliant stained glass windows of the 134-year-old [...]