Institute of Mosaic Art

Institute of Mosaic Art

Newsletter

What a great year 2005 was and we are so looking forward to the unfolding of 2006!
We celebrated the opening of our retail store this past year, Mosaic Studio Supply and the founding of the Institute of Mosaic Art AND the move into our new building at 3001 Chapman Street in Oakland, CA. So many positive and exciting changes have happened in 2005.
We are excited to invite and welcome new and returning students, visitors and colleagues to IMA in 2006 as we expand our programming and outreach. Please watch for rotating exhibitions of mosaic art in our gallery spaces, opportunities to exhibit, new lectures and slide presentations and an expansion of our resource library.
We have a terrific lineup of Visiting Instructors this season including Donna Billick, Jim Bachor, Ellen Blakeley, Sherri Warner Hunter, Sonia King, Elizabeth Raybee, Lillian Sizemore, Karen Thompson, and Carolina Zanelli from Italy to name a few.
In 2006 we will be announcing our Certificate Program in Mosaic Arts as well as offering thanks to our returning students with IMA Student Cards, which will be good for discounts on courses and supplies. These are only a few of the programs in the works!
Come by Institute of Mosaic Art and Mosaic Studio Supply to take a course, browse our bookshop and supply store, be inspired by the exhibitions, sit down and make a mosaic at Mosaic Cafe, make use our resource library or just come and soak in the great environment and enjoy our outdoor gardens and mosaic murals!
We hope to see you soon and all the best,
Laurel True, Director
Institute of Mosaic Art
Please also check out True Mosaics Studio website to hear about our current and future large scale sculptural and commissioned projects and True Mosaics Studio 2006 Newsletter

Institute of Mosaic Art offers over 50 unique courses in
mosaic and mosaic related arts!

VISITING ARTIST SERIES: JIM BACHOR DOUBLE-REVERSE RAVENNA MOSAIC METHOD — Five-Day Intensive

Fruit Party by Jim Bachor

Explore the ancient, precise and beautiful double-reverse Ravenna method. Learn the ancient technique very few people practice! February 22 - 26.

KIDS MOSAICS
Tap into your child's creativity with basic mosaic methods on February 19.

INTRODUCTION TO GLASS MOSAICS
With Laurel True on January 28 - 29.

VISITING ARTIST SERIES: DONNA BILLICK — Pebble Mosaics
Rock and Roll with Donna Billick on February 11 - 12.

Donna Billick — Pebble Mosaics

MOSAIC PET PORTRAITURE
Capture your pet's personality in mosaic! Pet lovers will love this unique mosaic course taught by mosaic artist Delaine Hackney. February 2 - March 9.

LILLIAN SIZEMORE's MOSAICS FROM THE MIND'S EYE and DESIGNING FROM THE MIND'S EYE
Connecting to Your Creative Power Tuesday Evenings, January 24 - March 21 in Mosaics from the Mind's Eye.
Design from the Minds Eye on Sat. and Sun. March 18 and 19.

MOSAIC 101
Added by popular demand!
February 25-26.

Click here for a full class schedule: http://www.instituteofmosaicart.com/classes.html

Wednesday through Saturday Starting January 21st — 10a.m. to 4p.m.

Come on in to Mosaic Studio Supply and sit yourself down and start making mosaics! Relax with a cup of coffee, select a piece to mosaic and your materials and jump in. For more information http://www.instituteofmosaicart.com/mosaic_cafe.html.

This Spring Institute of Mosaic Art proudly presents
Karen Thompson, Solo Exhibition
March 1 - April 2, 2006
Artists Reception Friday, March 3

From the Botanica Series

Botanica Series 2001-2005
A series of 12 fine art mosaic works

“Inspired by 16th and 17th century florilegia, books created to catalog plant collections of the times, I decided to emulate in mosaics, the pages of illustration that I came to love in my library of botanical illustration and all things floral. In each panel of the series Travertine is inset with a labeled specimen plant in the foreground surrounded by a series of fanciful borders filled with flowers and vines and insects. I took great pleasure in selecting the materials from my “treasure chest”: mixes of marble, semi precious stones, glass of all kinds as well as beads and shells.”

This exhibition ties in with her course Mixed Media Tesselation— Indirect Techniques and a Friday night lecture on March 10th.

Click here for more about IMA exhibitions

Mosaic Lab

Work at Mosaic Lab

Students come work on your personal projects during our IMA lab time

We have just added two more lab sessions.

LAB TIME:
Fridays 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wednesday evenings 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Drop in or sign up for a session of 8!

For more information:
http://www.instituteofmosaicart.com/class_descrip.html#lab

MSS on HGTV
Mosaic Studio Supply was recently featured on The Home & Garden Channel. The show Double Take came in for materials and advice from Laurel True for an Italian tabletop project. For more info check out their website.

Mosaic Studio Supply and Institute of Mosaic Art were featured in news story about Oakland's Jingletown district that aired Friday, January 13th on KRON 4 news in the San Francisco bay area by reporter Jeff Pierce.

Mosaic Studio Supply

Just a reminder that there are two great conferences coming up
in March and April
March 15 - 19
The Society of American Mosaic Artists (SAMA) conference in Chicago. Institute of Mosaic Art and Mosaic Studio Supply will have a table in the Vendor Area, so please come by and say hello!
www.americanmosaics.org

March 31 - April 3
The Community Built Association conference at Monterey. Laurel True the founder of IMA will be on several of the panels discussing community projects abroad, content in community work and of coarse, mosaics.
www.communitybuilt.com

Mosaic by Rachel Rodi

Call for Artwork Submissions
Spring Student Exhibition— Flora and Fauna
Exhibition runs March 1 - April 2, 2006
Artists Reception Friday, March 3
We are accepting submissions for work created at Institute of Mosaic Art or True Mosaics Studio including images of flowers, birds, animal and other natural themes. Click here for submission guidelines.

Administrative Assistant Position Available
Part time Administrative Assistant position open at Institute of Mosaic Art. We are looking for someone with a high level of motivation and energy and a positive attitude who is interested in working in a professional, upbeat environment. For more information go to our opportunities page at: http://www.instituteofmosaicart.com/jobs.html

Internship Available
We are also looking for a gallery intern for the IMA exhibitions program. This is an unpaid internship with perks. Please contact laurel@truemosaics.com for more info.

Volunteers Needed
Volunteer positions at True Mosaics Studio. We have several large scale mosaic projects going on. Past students and experienced mosaic artists are welcome to apply for project specific, short term volunteer positions. Please email laurel@truemosaics.com to put your name on the call list.