Stolen mosaic recovered in N. Philly

By DAVID GAMBACORTA
Paul Pickel’s prayers have been answered. Well, sort of.
It was exactly a month ago today that Pickel, owner of a Vero Beach, Fla., stained-glass studio, learned that $100,000 of his artwork had been stolen in Philadelphia.
An 8-by-12-foot mosaic of Italian saint Padre Pio and two stained-glass windows depicting the Ascension of Christ were [...]

Jesse Durko’s mosaics make a piece-ful spot

By Charlyne Varkonyi Schaub

It’s obvious Judy and Marty Bloomfield live for their art.
Their 3,248-square-foot house in Boca West looks like a gallery of contemporary art — filled with bowls, sculptures and art furniture.
Even the gardens were created to feature their art.
It’s no surprise that Judy was miserable when she looked out her back window at [...]

Was the Aksa Mosque built over the remains of a Byzantine church?

By ETGAR LEFKOVITS
Excavations under the Aksa Mosque in the 1930s, photographs of which were recently uncovered, revealed a Byzantine mosaic floor.
The photo archives of a British archeologist who carried out the only archeological excavation ever undertaken at the Temple Mount’s Aksa Mosque show a Byzantine mosaic floor underneath the mosque [...]

Glass gets artist all fired up

By Bobbi Seidel
A glass-on-wood mosaic of an egret by Tim Dorland (below, in his studio) of Freehold. Photos by KEITH J. WOODS/Staff photographer
A graceful egret wades in flowing water that mixes turquoise with shades of light blue in a rectangular wallpiece. Dark palm trees wave over a sea of orange and silver on a 15-inch-round [...]

Mosaic, stained glass pieces created in Vero Beach stolen in ‘major hit’

By Lamaur Stanci

Staff from Pickel Studio in Indian River County look over a mosaic of Padre Pio prior to a trip to deliver it to a cemetery in the Bronx. Instead, a car burglar in Philadelphia swiped the mosaic and the truck it was being delivered in.
A longtime mosaic and stained glass artist could be [...]

Artist spends three decades sketching New York’s subway station mosaics

Nearly five million people ride New York’s subways on any given day, but few of them appreciate the scenery.
“They are not usually looking at the walls really. There is a lot to see though,” notes artist Phillip Copp.
For the past three decades Copp has been sketching the mosaics in the system’s 468 stations.
He spends several [...]

Plans for colourful mosaic works to put Sedgefield on map (South Africa)

Katherine Wilkinson GARDEN ROUTE CORRESPONDENT
SEDGEFIELD could attract more tourists if local businessmen bought into a project to create public mosaic artworks in the town, says Knysna Tourism chief executive Shaun van Eck
Van Eck told a meeting of tourism operators in Sedgefield the project could be funded by membership fees paid to Knysna Tourism.
Sedgefield businesses which [...]

Pieces of Hope

A group of artists and entrepreneurs dramatically improved the lives of
HIV-positive women in South Africa by teaching them how to make and
sell art. Drawing inspiration from their example, Sophie Alpert
launched Piece by Piece, an organization that helps downtown Los
Angeles’ poor and homeless by teaching them how to create saleable works of mosaic art.  “Pieces of [...]

Maryhill Burgh Halls stained glass to return

Plans are underway to bring back 20 pieces of stained glass to Maryyhill Burgh Halls.
The Burgh Halls, along with the swimming pool, are due to reopen in 2010 following successful campaign of many years length.
The stained glass pieces were made around 1878 to depict Maryhill workers and craftsmen at work.
However the need for extra funding [...]

Nature’s the artist

By DAVE NORDSTRAND • The Salinas Californian
Linda Bjornson, the first artistinresidence at The Pinnacles, poses Tuesday next to a stained glass window she currently is working on at her Aromas home. (RICHARD GREEN/THE SALINAS CALIFORNIAN)
Stepping out of a cabin door in Bear Gulch, Linda Bjornson gazed up at the jagged spires of the Pinnacles National [...]