return to work

nothing new recently. i was in st. paul over the weekend and made mosaics with jess. i had never done it before and although quite fun took a bit of force. the kind we worked on are then donated to the city of st. paul and used to decorate planters around downtown. the tiles we used were really thick and cutting down every piece was tiresome. i'll post pictures of our mosaic once i get the photos scanned.

here's some information about the org - it's a pretty interesting and innovative public program.



http://www.mosaiconastick.com/

In the summer of 2006, the Hamline Midway Coalition received a STAR grant through the City of Saint Paul to beautify Snelling Avenue in collaboration with Mosaic on a Stick. The plan was for members of the community to create 170 mosaic medallions (10" in diameter) to cover 10 concrete planters on the Avenue. Anyone can participate (and it doesn't cost anything either!) & people have been happily surprised at the results thus far. At least 75 people (and those are just the ones that we can see and are easy to count) have contributed to the Planter Project in some way since it began in August. The time commitment is small and the payoff is big. Because this is community art in action. People coming together to create art. And in this case, the art that's being created is permanently installed in this neighborhood of living, breathing, working, coffee-drinking people.