2018 MOSAIC ARTS INTERNATIONAL AWARD WINNER!!!

I am thrilled and honored to announce that, not only was my latest work, “The Hol(e)y Book: where am I?”, selected into the prestigious 2018 Mosaic Arts International* exhibition, I was honored with the CONTEMPORARY INNOVATION AWARD!!! (work that best encourages experimentation and challenges the definition of mosaic art. Selected by the jury consensus.)

This year’s MAI exhibition will be held in BOSTON, MA.  Here are the details:

February 15 – April 30, 2018

BSA Space, Boston Society of Architects

290 Congress Street, Suite 200

Boston, MA 02210-1024. 

Hours: 

The esteemed jurors were: Pamela Irving, world-renown Australian Mosaic artist; Lindsy R. Parrott, director and curator of The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in Queens, New York; and Carol Shelkin, visual artist, mosaicist and art teacher, from Philadelphia.

*The Mosaic Arts International exhibition series invigorates a new perspective of mosaic art in numerous contexts, and celebrates established, as well as, emerging artists, working in the medium today. The Society of American Mosaic Artists is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating, inspiring, and promoting excellence in mosaic arts

Objectified: 3D Fine Art Mosaics show

Mosaics are taking over Boston! So on top of jurying into the 2018 MAI show, “HEAD START: Arrested Development”, my other work in the REGRESSION series, was chosen by curators Deb Aldo and Betty Bothereau for a concurrent sculptural mosaic show, Objectified: 3D Fine Art Mosaics,  at L’Attitude Gallery, in Boston’s gallery-rich South End SOWA district!

Objectified: 3D Fine Art Mosaics info and dates:

March 1 – March 30, 2018

L’Attitude Gallery, 460-C Harrison Ave, Suite 8A, Boston MA 02118

Hours: 10:30am – 5:30pm Tuesdays-Saturdays; 11am – 4pm Sundays

Reception: March 2nd, (part of SOWA’s First Friday Art Walk)

Reception: Wednesday, March 14, 5:00 – 7:30 (during SAMA conference)

MAGNIFICENT MOSAICS written by Julie Sperling

I am honored that Julie Sperling chose to spotlight me when asked to write about a mosaic artist she admires for the Mosaic Association of Australia and New Zealand's Feb 2017 eNewsletter! Not only is Julie a fabulous writer and blogger, she is one of the top mosaic artists that I most admire!!!

TAKE 10 at The Gallery at Penn College

"TAKE 10" 

August 25 - October 9, 2016: The Gallery at Penn College of Technology celebrated a decade of contemporary art by asking favorite past exhibitors to show 2 works in a thrilling, and beautifully curated show: TAKE 10.  I was moved to have my "Reliquaries for the 100 Million Cancelled Girls" connect with students and visitors in profound ways. "Women Hold Up Half the Sky, Plaza 2" was also well received!

https://www.pct.edu/gallery

MOSAIC ARTS INTERNATIONAL 2016

"Women Hold Up Half the Sky, Plaza #2" was juried into the beautiful MOSAIC ARTS INTERNATIONAL 2016: Fine Art Exhibition, presented by The Society of American Mosaic Artists (www.americanmosaics.org), and held at the Women's Museum of California (www.womensmuseum.org)

March 31 - May 27, 2016

Hours: Wed-Sun: 12-4

2730 Historic Decatur Rd., Barracks 16, Suite 103, San Diego, CA 92106

This beautiful and diverse exhibition was juried by New York and Miami Gallerist, Bernice Steinbaum (whose lifelong drive to represent women and artists of color was honored with a documentary which is garnering top awards at international film festivals); artist, sculptor and author, Sherri Warner Hunter; and internationally celebrated mosaic artist, Elaine M. Goodwin.