"The Art of Mosaic, combining small element to create a decorative effect, has been practiced for thousands of years. Mosaics were formed from a variety of natural and man-made colored materials, including stone, shell, and glazed terra-cotta (fired Clay). They were then embedded in plaster, cement, or other binding material to keep them in place and to provide an impermeable barrier to the elements. Glass began to be used for mosaics sometime during the middle of the second millennium B.C., only centuries after glass, as a man-made material, was first manufactured."

"Tiffany's early career as a painter directed his lifelong pursuit of beauty. Noted as a colorist, Tiffany was deeply affected by the brilliant glass found in European cathedrals and in the warm, saturated light in North Africa, where he traveled in 1870 and 1871. He later recalled to the members of the Rembrandt Club, "I returned to New York wondering why we made so little use of our eyes, why we refrained so obstinately from taking advantage of color." His ambition to communicate this boldness and purity of color most likely prompted his initial entry into the glass and shaped his vision for the mosaics produced by his company."

Quoted from, Tiffany's Glass Mosaics, Kelly A. Conway and Lindsy R. Parrott

Just reporting back from Corning Museum of Glass and Kari Minnick's, "The Upper Crust" Workshop. 

Corning offers the best teachers, facilities, and staff you can possibly want to work with. If you ever have the opportunity to attend Corning, you should take it. I am always astounded that I get to have these experiences. Photos are worth a million words so please take a look at the fun that was had.

A warm thank you to all who helped me get to this place of enjoyment. I could not have done it without you.

I will be posting images of CMoG Museum and the Tiffany Mosaic Exhibit. 
Warmly-
​Sarinda

I am looking forward to heading back to CMOC this Summer with Kari. I wanted to share the class information to my people so that you don't miss this amazing opportunity.

​I will be helping out the students to get whatever they need for the class and be available to Kari for any of her needs. It would be great to see some of my friends there as well. Hope you will join us for some glass fun.

​Best-
Sarinda

Kari's Minnick's Class description

​Date:  June 12 - 17, 2017
Season Summer: Technique Kiln Working
Level: All Levels
Duration: One-Week SessionThe surface is the entry to a work of art. It can stop you in your tracks or lead a viewer into the layers below. It’s the part you want to touch. Using unusual applications of Bullseye sheet glass, powder, stringer and frit, in conjunction with multiple firings, you will learn strategies to enable rich textural surfaces and depth for fused glass.
Gritty, slick, or robust relief, kiln-forming materials and processes afford us exceptional textural and tactile qualities. Utilizing wet and dry powder processes, and combinations of glasses, students will create a variety of surface textures. Through the careful order of firings and observation of the effects of heat work, they will attain and maintain a diversity of desired textures on panel surfaces. Detailed firing schedules and layering strategies and will be explored. Color, composition, opacity and transparency will be considered. This highly creative and hands-on course is of interest to kiln glass workers as well as artists of other media.