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 Little Brother
From Journey to Center Exhibit
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Headed for a great season of classes this year!
New Class Schedule headed your way chocked full of exciting new programming and core classes.
We have a wonderful lineup of Visiting Artists this spring and summer including: Laurel Skye, Pippa Murray, Ellen Blakeley, Sherri Warner Hunter, Brent Sumner, Laurel True and many more wonderful instructors.
Click here for a full class schedule:
Online or download a pdf.
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Make Your Plans Now for Mosaic Summer Camp for Adults!
Join us at Institute of Mosaic Art for lots of mosaic fun this summer! Students from all over come in for our popular week long class full of great projects, technical instruction, mosaic field trips, lectures and slide shows, site specific projects and more.
Jump in now as these camps fill up! All level students welcome.
Session 1 July 14-18, 2008
Session 2 August 11-14, 2008
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| Mosaic Summer Camp for Adults |
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| Mural Making Intensive |
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| Darjit! Benches |
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| Tile Making |
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| Mosaics by Ellen Blakeley |
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April 14 - 20
Mural Making Intensive — Designing, Setting and Installing Mosaic Murals
With Laurel True
April 26 - 27
Darjit! Series: Sculptural Garden Benches and Chairs With Myles Blackwood
May 1 - June 19
Multi-Level Glass Mosaics With Tracy Broback
May 10 - 11
Lightweight Concrete Sculpture For Mosaic With Tracy Broback
Mosaic Lab!
Mosaic Lab is a perfect way to join like- minded folks in the mosaic community to work on projects at your own pace. We have lots of fun in lab and each session offers a network of encouragement and support for fellow mosaic artists and students.
This month we also offer
selections from our core classes
These courses are the essential building blocks of mosaic art!
Mosaic 101 — Introduction To Mosaics,
Exterior And Garden Applications,
Grout Clinic,
Architectural Applications — Floors And Walls and
Introduction o Glass Mosaics
For more classes go to:
Spring/Summer 2008 Class Schedule or
Download a pdf of the Spring/Summer 2008 Class Schedule
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Every month we will be featuring a student artist who is part of our extended community at IMA. Please click the link to read more about the artist's path to mosaics.
 Wedding present bowl
Nadia Khastagir |
Nadia Khastagir
Oakland, CA
Words from Nadia...
"I have never considered myself a visual artist. I grew up playing piano, and in my adult years I have been a semi-professional belly dancer and recently, a salsa dancer. Professionally, I am a graphic designer — a career I fell into and a skill I learned on the job. I now am a co-owner of a graphic design studio in Oakland."
Read More...
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Journey to Center
Mosaics from the Mind's Eye
Exhibit has been extended to May 30th
March 18 - April 25
Jingletown Junction — Group Exhibit at Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Skidmark
Detail by Laurel True
Asphalt, concrete, glass
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Jingletown is a migratory, semi-industrial zone located on the estuary of Oakland and Alameda. Ten artists, all who live and/or work there, all members of the Jingletown Arts and Business Community (JABC) have created artwork for this show, as it stems from their individual experience of living and working in an artists' neighborhood. Each artist uses his/her own medium and creative ideas to make pieces that concern the collaborative experience of this area.
Participating Artists:Alison McLennan, Fernando Reyes, Jill McLennan, Heather Whitehead, Russ Osterweil, Jan Watten, Jon Zax, Kathy Cronin, Bill Silveira and Laurel True. www.jingletown.org.
Pro Arts Gallery, 550 Second St., Oakland, (510) 763-4361.
April 17th - June 1st
Sherri Warner Hunter: Fragments
Artist's Reception
Thursday, April 24th 6-8 pm
Blue Line, 2008
ceramic mosaic, concrete, rubber, misc.
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Mixed media constructions in mosaic, concrete, wood, and found materials.
Hunter's new constructions utilize three dimensional forms as gestural mark-making references. Sculptural forms are combined to create abstract pictographs and metaphors using mosaic forms, wood and concrete elements, found objects and materials. Come and enjoy this rare opportunity to see Hunter's magical creations.
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IMA Community Meeting
Join us for an IMA Community Meeting in June!
We are having a meeting to share and generate future ideas about Institute of Mosaic Art!
So many wonderful and exciting things have happened in the last three years since we opened — it's boggeling really. Our extended community has grown by leaps and bounds and includes many wonderful, kind and talented people.
You, our community, have been an vital part of the development of IMA, and we welcome your feedback and creative energy about new ideas for moving into the future and making Institute of Mosaic Art even better in the coming years.
We would like to expand and deepen community involvement and hear your ideas about programs, events and other types of activities at IMA that will benefit and inspire you as well as share some of our future plans concerning IMA.
Please join IMA founders Laurel and Julia and the whole team for a hosted afternoon tea/happy hour mixer and rap session.
Saturday, June 14th
5 pm in the afternoon.
Earth Day and JABC
Join us at IMA for a Jingletown Junction neighborhood clean up at 9 am followed by a potluck BBQ at noon. Starbucks is donating coffee and pastry for this fun, yearly event. All participants receive a free t-shirt form the city of Oakland.
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Laure True will be in New Orleans teaching two exciting classes in the month of May
Mosaic Classes in New Orleans!
At New Orleans School of Glass and Printmaking in the Gallery District
Fine Art Mosaics in Glass: May 10-11, 2008
At New Orleans Conservation Guild in the heart of the Bywater
Mosaics For the Garden: Saturday and Sunday, May 24-25th, 2008
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KQED FM Forum
KQED FM Forum had 1/2 hour segment centered around the JINGLETOWN JUNCTION exhibition at Pro Arts Gallery.
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R804101000
East Bay Business Times
IMA director Laurel True will be featured in an article in the East Bay Business Times at the end of April. The article focuses on corporate art and mosaic installations as an architectural addition to commercial buildings.
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Mosaic Studio Supply traveled to Miami to participate in the Vendor Marketplace at the SAMA conference and it good to see everyone at our booth this year!
We have some great Spring specials in the store right now including garden sphere kits, making concrete forms kits and lots of great cut out shapes to mosaic!
To shop online go to: http://www.mosaicstudiosupply.com
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Mosaic Pet Portrait Invitational
Curated by Delaine Hackney
Click here for more information on the call for Mosaic Pet Portraits and this exhibit.
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