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Mosaic workshop in V Street, DC

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Last week Andrea, Kathy, Smruti and Mark gathered for 3 nights at MosaicMoments Studio in V Street to make their first mosaics.

For them it was an endeavor: practicing breaking glass tiles, setting mosaic pieces in a very particular order and using line and color to create a simple geometric mosaic design.

It was fun, it was hard, it was meditative, it made time fly …

In the end happiness prevailed over achiement of self created mosaics and time well spent with like minded people.

Mosaic works of first workshop in DC using

Mosaics around me

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Beautiful mosaic murals have crossed my way in the past months.

On my recent trip to New York I went on a quest to find the newest editions of mosaic murals. Friends told me “under central station” and “you go down down down and then you see the mosaics”.

So I went to central station and we first asked some friendly man in yellow vests where to find the mosaics and they took great interest but couldn’t really point in any direction …

Then we went down, down, down and ended on a very narrow and old platform with no mosaics.

Almost giving up, when we tried to find the way back out of this dark labyrinth full of people and hot air, we saw some stairs leading into a white clean brand new hall and I was sure we could find the mosaics here. So we followed signs to LIRR station and found them:

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But also old friends greeted me this time in the metro stations making me feel familiar with the place …

Detail of “Happy City”, Peter Sis, Mosaic @ 86 Street East Metro Station NYC

Brooklyn Bridge Metro Station NYC, Original mosaic decor

And last week I was stunned to see this monumental mosaic by famous us American artist Sam Gilliam opposite the entrance to the metro in Takoma Park in Washington DC.

FROM A MODEL TO A RAINBOWMosaic by Sam Gilliam, 2011 Commissioned by DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities DC Creates! Public Art Program In cooperation with Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Art in Transit Program

FROM A MODEL TO A RAINBOW
Mosaic by Sam Gilliam, 2011
Commissioned by
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
DC Creates! Public Art Program
In cooperation with
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Art in Transit Program

Ü 80 Mosaic workshop

Published by gertrud

In July 2024, my first workshop for over-80s took place in my parents’ retirement home.
7 residents of Lepsiusstr 4 in Naumburg/Saale embarked on the adventure.
One of the residents brought her granddaughter along.
The communal room of the Nofretete shared apartment was the perfect place to sit around a table and get to know each other while working. There was great enthusiasm for the glittering, colorful mosaic tiles when everyone appeared in the room.
It quickly became clear that not all hands could handle the mosaic tongs.
The broken mosaic stones collected from previous workshops came in very handy, so that even participants with disabilities could work independently. Overall, the atmosphere was concentrated and cheerful at the same time.
Everyone was proud to be able to take their own mosaic back to their rooms after the two days. I was amazed to discover the creative talents of my parents.
What a great discovery after more than 50 years!