Bruce Colbert/The Daily CourierBruce Colbert/The Daily CourierEmily Frankel, an eighth-grade student at Skyview School, mounts her koi fish mosaic to a terrace wall at the Raven Caf� Thursday.
Artist Juanita “Nita” Hull-Carlson and 40 Skyview School students created a four-by-12-foot mosaic at Prescott’s Raven Café, 142 N. Cortez St., Thursday. The mosaic covers an entire wall [...]

Frustrated? Break something (US San Diego, CA)

We all have individual problems weighing us down – from paying the bills, to the stockpile of essays and readings due for your 10 a.m class tomorrow.
Wouldn’t it be the greatest thing if you could go somewhere, break some plates and glasses and release all your internal angst?
Behold Sarah’s Smash Shack, located in the Gaslamp [...]

Time’s running out for Largo’s landmark clock tower

By Lorri Helfand
Some have maligned the city’s landmark because of its proportions.
The clock tower has been called “squat” or “strange,” said Public Works director Brian Usher.
And the plaza where it stands has seen better days.
So Tuesday at a city work session, Largo leaders got a glimpse of options to renovate the clock tower and the [...]

Construction of mosaic delayed (US-Michigan)

The 1200-piece Penrose tile mosaic that was to be placed on the second
floor of the CASL building over Summer II 2008 has not yet started
construction due to a lack of funding.
The mosaic will
eventually be placed on the second floor of the CASL building to
display the beautiful connection between mathematics and art. The
60-square-foot work of art [...]

Magnolia Park in Hillsboro has something for everyone

By ANGELLA FORET DIEHL
Artist Lynn Adamo wants kids to jump all over
her latest masterpiece — and they were more than happy to
accommodate her wishes at the grand opening celebration of
Hillsboro’s new Magnolia Park in Tanasbourne.
While their parents listened to music and munched on fresh
fruit, children danced in the water shooting from jets
installed in the [...]

Tiny tiles of style (Australia)

By Andrew Mathieson
ART, as creative soul Caroline Hawkins can testify, is a subjective thing. 
But the colourful pieces are wasted hung on the walls of stuffy galleries.
This mosaic artist has rather a practical spin on the craft that dates its history back to Roman times.
Reaching from behind her chair, she lifts a favourite mosaic.
“This is one [...]

In Lorton, a Prison Success Story

Been busy working here this weekend. If you are in the area stop in and check out the renovated facilities.

Robert Kincheloe works in the studios at the Workhouse Arts Center. Housed in part of the former Lorton prison, left, the center begins a nine-day opening celebration today, including concerts, theater performances and art [...]

Staining glass as art and as a career

ERIC EMIN WOOD FOR METRO CANADA

When Victoria Balva first came to Canada from her native Ukraine,
she began her stained glass career in what she derisively calls a
“mass-production company.”
“The reason I decided on stained glass was we could do everything: Murals, mosaic, large-scale, small-scale,” she says.
Stifled by the rote predictability of her day job Balva, with [...]

HISTORY: The port of ancient Rome

Prowling around the ruins of Ostia Antica, ancient
Rome’s seaport city Ostia there are relatively few crowds, there is
plenty of shade from the umbrella pine trees and it is possible to walk
on the basalt stones where grooves made 2,000 years ago by passing
vehicles are still visible.

The city had its beginnings in the seventh
century BC when Rome’s [...]

Whittier duo create Neighborly Public Art (US)

By Sheila Regan

“Neighborly Public Art” is the next big wave in world of art—or so hope Marilyn Lindström
and Francis Yellow. They are a pair of artists who are collaborating on
a new, community-centric, business model for visual art.
In Neighborly Public Art, a private person or persons purchase a piece of
art that, rather than being displayed in [...]