Making Mosaics
Let the beauty we love be what we do; there are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” -Rumi
Join a gathering of women for an evening filled with laughter, creativity and connection.
If you've always wanted to try making a mosaic, here's your chance. We'll be making trivets - functional for holding a hot pot or cook pan.
It's a simple process, almost like collage but with colored glass pieces. We'll use scraps from stained glass making - laying them out in patterns, shapes, or nature-based designs. Once you learn to create a grouted mosaic on this scale - it can translate to a larger scale, and you can mosaic on different surfaces or objects like a table top, or an old window to make a mosaic stained glass piece to hang in the sunlight.
Since it's usually a 2-step process (the glue needs to fully dry before grouting) we will have a piece with a completed design ready to grout, so you can learn that process.
We will keep your trivets until the glue dries and grout them for you and then have them available for pick up.
This workshop is the first in a series of local gatherings designed to inspire connection, community and creativity.
Details
Date and Time: Tuesday, August 1 from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Location: Burlington Friends Meeting House, 173 North Prospect Street, Burlington
Hosted by: Melanie Brotz and Kristin DeVoe-Talluto.
Cost: $65, includes all materials and a simple dinner
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About Melanie Brotz
Melanie's life and art fuse her passions for environmental protection, wild lands and wildlife, plants and healing, community building, and the transformational power of love and kindness. Her paintings, mosaics, environmental art pieces, sculptures, and mixed media art are inspired by the natural world; patterns, shapes, shadows, colors, textures, and the animals, plants and landscapes she encounters. Playing outside, looking, listening, touching, learning, and wondering lead to new possibilities, and inspiration for her art. Favorite materials are found objects, scrap wood, scrap glass and tiles, discarded materials, driftwood, seed pods, birch bark, snow, sand, wool, shells, leaves, and rocks.
Melanie teaches art classes ranging from creating sculptures from natural materials, environmental art, painting "signs of love", and making mosaics, to hand-printing clothing, and working with felted wool.
