Making Mosaics - POSTPONED
If you’d like to be notified when the workshop is rescheduled, please contact us.
Date and Time: TBA
Location: Burlington Friends Meeting House
Cost: $65 includes all materials
Hosted by: Melanie Brotz and Kristin DeVoe-Talluto
Join a gathering of women for an evening of connection, community, and creativity. We’ll play with color, patterns, and shapes as we learn to make a simple glass mosaic.
If you’d like to be notified when the workshop is rescheduled, please contact us.
Date and Time: TBA
Location: Burlington Friends Meeting House
Cost: $65 includes all materials
Hosted by: Melanie Brotz and Kristin DeVoe-Talluto
Join a gathering of women for an evening of connection, community, and creativity. We’ll play with color, patterns, and shapes as we learn to make a simple glass mosaic.
If you’d like to be notified when the workshop is rescheduled, please contact us.
Date and Time: TBA
Location: Burlington Friends Meeting House
Cost: $65 includes all materials
Hosted by: Melanie Brotz and Kristin DeVoe-Talluto
Join a gathering of women for an evening of connection, community, and creativity. We’ll play with color, patterns, and shapes as we learn to make a simple glass mosaic.
POSTPONED
If you’d like to be notified when the new date is set, please contact us.
Making Mosaics
This workshop is the first in a series of local gatherings designed to inspire connection, community, and creativity.
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, grout them for you, and then have them available for pick up.
All are welcome! No artistic experience is necessary.
About Melanie
“Let the beauty we love be what we do; there are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” -Rumi
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", making mosaics, to hand-printing clothing, and working with felted wool.
About the location
The Burlington Friends Meeting House, located at 173 North Prospect Street in Burlington, is an oasis of beauty and tranquility. The Meeting House is fully accessible, and its light-filled rooms and extensive gardens will spark our creativity and foster a sense community.
About the Play and Presence series
Play and Presence is a series of monthly-ish gatherings designed to inspire joy-filled connection — with yourself, others, and the beauty of the world. We'll be guided by kind, creative women as they share what they love and offer experiences that nourish the body, heart and spirit.
Making Mosaics is the first event in the series! Thank you, Melanie.
If you have questions about this gathering or if you would like to co-create an event (workshop, hike, class, picnic, ramble, paddle, yoga, conversation, art...the possibilities are endless), please get in touch with Kristin.