Glass Mosaic

The Mash-up Searching for beauty in something ordinary...

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mosaic - the decoration of a surface with small juxtaposed fragments (tesserae) of glass, enamel, stone, or ceramic arranged according to a design traced on a specially prepared base.

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Community Mosaic Art

The Pittsburgh Glass Center Neighborhood Mosaic Project Mosaic Artist Daviea Davis
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During the residency Davis visited the schools to create community glass mosaics with students in the classroom. In PGCs Hodge Gallery, she concurrently integrated the students ideas into a 360 glass mosaic panorama of the unique characteristics and joys of the City of Pittsburgh.

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How do you think a project like this impacts the community?

Would the impact be any dierent if this was a painting instead of a glass mosaic?
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Can the media change the value of a work of art?

Stain glass Rose windows form Notre Dame Cathedral

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The meaning behind a work of art. Does it enhance its value?

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First lets learn how to read a work of art.

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Composition
Eye Path Focal Point Grouping Repetition

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Composition
Eye Path Focal Point Grouping Repetition

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Composition
Eye Path Focal Point Grouping Repetition

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Abstract

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Story?

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Adrift glass, ceramic, pyrite, fossils, gold, seashell, smalti, marble, turquoise 25" h x 19 "w, 2005

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Story?

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An instant crowd-favorite wherever she goes, Miss Kali 2010 is easily identified as the epitome of modern day consumerism. Second, third and fourth looks, however, reveal Kettering Dimits deeper intentions for the viewer. In the West, this Hindu goddess has become a poster child for women awakening to their strengths. Replacing her traditional sword, severed head, bowl of blood and hand gesture of reassurance are a hair dryer, coffee cup, smart phone and designer purse. The current trend of skull imagery devoid of deeper meaning adorns her . . . but her warrior attitude is shining through the bling!

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Media Options

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"River Meanders" mosaic art. ceramics, glass, pebbles, marbles, found objects on panel. 24 in x 24 in
"River Meanders" Contemporary Mosaic Art

Awareness Story

The River slows down in the Delta and bends back and forth in great loops or meanders. Some of these bends get cut off from the River as the riverbed moves over the years. This is how oxbow lakes are formed. The Delta is all black mud that was built up from millions of years of silt deposited by the River. Much of the rest of the state of Mississippi was formed from alluvial deposits as well, but up in the hills, there is sand and gravel. Some of the hills are actually old sandbars and gravel bars that were formed by the River eons ago. Driftwood buried millions of years ago in these sandbars slowly fossilized from the minerals in the groundwater. Some of this petrified wood is eroded out of the hills over the years as it rains. My great uncles taught me how to walk the creeks up in the hills and find petrified wood that had been washed out. They showed me how to look for arrowheads in a field after a rain, and how to look for marbles and old bottles near chimneys. This was incredibly important stuff for a little boy from "across the tracks" that was spending way too much time in the library. If we were looking for buried pirate treasure, I couldn't have been more fascinated.

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