Mosaics with Roberta Tobey Gertz

Mosaics with Roberta Tobey Gertz

Workshop | This program is completed

Adult

1/24/2020-1/26/2020

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$295.00

Member Discount Available

Dates and Times:
1/24: 6:30-8:30 PM
1/25: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
1/26: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

***Please note: This workshop has reserved snow dates in the event of inclement weather: 2/28, 2/29, and 3/1***


This weekend workshop with Roberta Tobey Gertz will introduce you to the beautiful world of creative mosaics, and get you started (and hopefully finished) on an 8”x 12” piece of original art. On Friday night we will learn about a wide variety of materials, practice some basic techniques, and talk about inspiration, where it comes from, and “what to make”.

Saturday and Sunday, armed with the tools and tiles provided, we will create your art with plenty of personal guidance, learning the particular language of mosaics. Roberta’s style includes the use of mixed materials…glass and ceramic tile, broken china, stained glass, shells, stones and beads.

Students are encouraged to bring any materials with them, a wonderful opportunity to use that broken serving platter of your grandmothers, or your chipped favorite mug, or that pile of beach glass that you don’t know what to do with!

My mosaic art is inspired by the nature around me and the patterns and textures that I find in the materials that I use. Intensely colored smalti glass from Italy and Mexico are like seductive candy. Bits of swirling stained glass may suggest skies or water or tree bark. My favorite is broken china, sometimes incorporating a cherished heirloom or some favorite yard sale find. The shards may inspire feathers or leaves or an eye, and my imagination takes off from there. Making mosaics has allowed me to reuse discarded treasures, and make whole again what has been broken… in the deepest sense becoming a healing and hopeful expression of my inner world.