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Summer is in full swing and the creative spark is catching! IMA is buzzing with energy and excitement. We are happy to have hosted so many visitors and students already this summer and look forward to a great season.

Fall and Winter 2009-10 classes are up and ready for you! Classes are filling up fast and waiting lists are not uncommon. Sign up early!

Please note: We are moving away from the printed class schedule as part of an effort to green our business. You can see our latest class schedule online and watch your mailbox for a postcard with Fall/Winter highlights and specials.

Mosaic 101 student work

Intro to glass student work

Light weight concrete sculpture

Darjit! with Brent Sumner

Featured July Classes July 11 Mosaics from Around the World with Rachel Rodi July 18 - 19 Glass Mosaic Lamp with Rachel Rodi July 18 - 19 Mosaic Garden Sphere with Tracy Broback July 24 - 26 Visiting Artist Series: Brent Sumner — Darjit!: Concrete Garden Sculpture Workshop

More upcoming classes

August 5, 12 & 19
Mosaic 101 — Introduction to Mosaics with Rachel Rodi

August 15 - 16
Introduction to Glass Mosaics with Rachel Rodi

August 15 - 16
Glass Fusing Extravaganza with Laurel True

August 22 - 23
The Business of Mosaics — Doing what you love and making a living at it! with Laurel True

August 22 - 23
Lightweight Concrete Sculpture for Mosaic with Tracy Broback

August 27 - 30
Visiting Artist Series: Brent Sumner — Architectural Sculpting Workshop

August 29 - 30
Pet Portraiture with Delaine Hackney

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.

This month we also offer
selections from our core classes

These courses are some of 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 to Glass Mosaics

For more classes go to:
Fall/Winter 2009-10 Class Schedule

Come down to Institute of Mosaic Art this Friday and enjoy the Estuary Art Attack! Many studios in our neighborhood will be open for this second Friday event as well as art venues and restaurants in Alameda, right over the estuary from us!

Friday night 6-9 pm

http://www.estuaryartattack.com/

Mosaics From the Mind's Eye Exhibit, Student Sculpture and Renegade Quilting Exhibits and Laurel True: Visions/ Journeys Exhibit.

Coming up

Mosaics in West Africa and Beyond — Images and Inspirations. Photography and work for the wall in mixed media mosaic by Laurel True and mosaic artists from Ghana.

Institute of Mosaic Art will be presenting a series of mosaic technique demonstrations duringÝthe American Craft Council Show in San Francisco at Fort Mason Center, August 14-16, 2009.

Friday 12 - 1p.m. and Sunday 12 - 1p.m.
Mosaic Tesserae, Tools and Techniques

Sunday 3 - 4p.m.
Byzantine Glass Smalti: Ancient Materials, Modern Applications

For more information: Ýwww.craftcouncil.org/sf

Mention Institute of Mosaic Art and win a pair of tickets to the show!Ý The first ten people who respond to this offer will receive 2 tickets to the American Craft Council Show inÝSan Francisco.Ý Contact:Ýbboyle@craftcouncil.org.Ý

Dr. Randy Sanders, Associate Professor of History, Southeastern Louisiana University, author and mosaic artist, will present a paper entitled:
"Creative Capital: Laurel True's International Public Art Projects"
The conference runs July 28-31, 2009 in conjunction with the Venice Biennale.

The conference
http://artsinsociety.com/conference-2009/plenary-speakers/

Read the paper:
http://a09.cgpublisher.com/proposals/364/index_html

Laurel True will be teaching classes in New Orleans and Austin, TX. Please check the website for more information: http://www.truemosaics.com/classes.html

For True Mosaic Studio News and updates: http://truemosaicsstudio.blogspot.com/

Picture frames, strange and wonderful shapes, trays, tabletops, vases, mirrors and funky Marrakesh inspired hardiboard cutouts.

We just received a new shipment of Starrett nippers in and they don't last long! Order a pair online or come into Mosaic Studio Supply.

Also just in Mosaic Bible of Techniques. Add this new book to your mosaic library — put out by the same folks that bring you Mosaic Artist's Bible — one of our best selling books!

To shop online go to: http://www.mosaicstudiosupply.com

Mosaic Studio Supply is hiring a retail store supervisor. Wed, Friday and some Sundays. Mosaic and retail experience required.

Please send letter of interest resume to Celeste@instituteofmosaicart.com.