Market House mural mosaic celebrates community

Meadville Tribune
By Penni Schaefer

“I’ve never seen anything like it before — I thought I was dreaming!” said Nicholas Brady, 9, of Neason Hill Elementary School. “It was amazing to walk up the steps and see it finished.”
Brady was just one of about 60 Meadville students who met at the Market House on Tuesday to view [...]

God in the Details

The Passion of a Lifetime Shines Through Rowan LeCompte’s Cathedral Windows
By Linton Weeks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Photo Credit Ken Cobb/

A life is like a stained-glass window. Colorful yet clear. Translucent yet obscured. Strong yet fragile. An arrangement of shard-moments held by a force that keeps everything in place. Miraculous things — life and stained-glass windows. Still, [...]

LBC middle schoolers tend their own garden

By ROB NOVIT
J.D. Norris and daughters Kelly, center, and Lucy finished up the placement of mosaic stepping stones for a garden the girls and their classmaters in Harriett Nix’s art classes are creating to beautify the school courtyard.
For several months, LBC Middle School eighth-grader Melissa Palmer and other art students have been working on [...]

Trend USA’s mosaics adorn floors, walls and mantels

By JO WERNE
Special to The Miami Herald

Imagine a ”rug” that never needs to be sent out for cleaning. Or walls that will never require paint. Stairs that will never need resurfacing.
Such innovations come from Trend USA through its creative use of mosaic tile, stone and engineered terrazzo.
Company founder Andrea Di Giuseppe says his goal is [...]

North Country’s Finest: Stained Glass Windows

When people retire, some of them take up golf, others travel and still others spend time with their grandchildren.
David Martin of Ogdensburg has decided to enjoy his two years of retirement by cataloging stained glass windows in houses of worship across the north country.
“Every window has a story to tell and it varies from church [...]

Lily Lake greets Minnesota; Students working on massive mosaic greeting card for state sesquicentennial

By KRIS JANISCH
Former Lily Lake Elementary teacher Carol Woods last week helps students create part of a massive 25-by-10-foot greeting card that will be featured at the State Fair in conjunction with the state sesquicentennial celebration.
A 25-by-10-foot greeting card featured at the State Fair this year will include a piece of Stillwater.
Fourth-grade students at Lily [...]

Firm has a clear vision of success

By Kerry Hathway

TWO Adstock-based stained glass artists are offering a new service to local businesses. Vitreus Art, which is based in Main Street, is attempting to bring more colour and light to business boardrooms by offering to turn any company logo into coloured glass.
Glass workers Jenny Timms and Mike Caddy have already carried out work [...]

Mosaic Of Jesus Nears Completion At SF Church

Sharon Chin, Reporting

A giant mosaic of the face of Jesus is nearing completion at a Greek Orthodox Church in San Francisco. Its creator, Robert Andrews, said it’s the largest mosaic of Jesus’ face in the Western Hemisphere.
One glimpse of the Jesus mosaic inspired Frances Dutro to sing “Christ is Risen.”
“It was just overwhelming. It’s something [...]

Art with a heart

By Benjamin Parkes

THE third Cloth Road Arts Week takes place next month, celebrating the work of local artists. In the weeks before the event, beginning May 3, we are featuring those who taking part.
This week we meet glass maker and mosaic artist Natasha Rampley. Visit www.clothroadartists.com
NATASHA Rampley will be raising money for charity as well [...]

Artaic Pieces Together a Robot Revolution in Mosaic-Making

By Wade Roush

Mosaic has been a popular form of public art since Roman times, but the techniques behind it haven’t advanced much over the millennia. Assembling the glass, stone, or marble pieces of a mosaic, called tesserae, is still a manual process that takes even experienced craftspeople two to three hours per square foot. (If [...]