Creating a New Identity for Mosaic: The GAEM Prize 2013
Even as Ravenna Italy is the eternal steward of mosaic’s Byzantine past, it is also the incubator for the art form’s dynamic future. This is no more evident than in the Young Artists and Mosaic (GAEM)...
View ArticleBAMM’s Mosaic of the Year 2014: Tessa Hunkin & the Hackney Mosaic Project...
The Romans would have approved. The British Association for Modern Mosaic (BAMM) recently announced that Tessa Hunkin and The Hackney Mosaic Project have received the Mosaic of the Year Award for a...
View ArticlePrix Picassiette 2014 Winners Announced
1st Prize Professional Karen Ami (USA) “Dialogues” Chartres les 3Rs, the organization which produces the biennial Les Recontres des Internationales de Mosaïque de Chartres (International Mosaic...
View ArticleA Hard-Bound Master Class by Iliya Iliev: Review of “Ornament” by Allan Punton
International award-winning mosaic artist and Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Sofia, Bulgaria Ilya Iliev knows what Rembrandt, Escher, Klee and VanGogh knew about the use of geometry in composing...
View ArticleA Modern Mosaic Menagerie: Aneme Mosaico’s Zoological Studies In Stone
Aneme Mosaico “Panthera Pardus” (2014) 37.5 x 28.5 cm We want them all. The Leopard. The Hippo. The Bear. The Llama . . . We want the whole zoological catalogue in stone by Melissa Moliterno and Andrea...
View ArticleEntering Through The Gift Shop: Carrie Reichardt’s “Tiki Love Truck” in the...
Photo: Catherine Flood, Victoria and Albert Museum In October of 2012, we were part of a lively debate at the British Association for Modern Mosaic’s annual symposium about what it would take to get...
View Article“Power To The People”: Carrie Reichardt’s Mosaic Intervention of the V&A’s...
Carrie Reichardt & The Treatment Rooms Collective “Power to the People” (2014) Quote by Berthldt Brecht Photo courtesy of the artist Having broken through the modern mosaic barrier at the...
View ArticleTaking It To The Streets: Pixel in Santiago
Pixel “Vincent Pixel Remix” (2014) 320 x 180 cm After “Self Portait” Vincent van Gogh (1889) Move over, Invader. There’s a new kid in Santiago, Chile who is taking mosaic street art to a whole new...
View ArticlePutting MAN to Bed
Dear Friends of MAN, When Bill Buckingham asked me to join him and his partner, Michael Welch, in producing a magazine called Mosaic Art NOW in 2008, I had no idea that my “yes” would be the beginning...
View Article“There is no world without mosaics”– Helen Miles
Helen_Miles_David_2015 We are great fans of Helen Miles, the very fine Scottish artist who currently resides in Greece. Her classically inspired mosaics (like the portrait of her husband, David,...
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