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Mosaic in the shadows II, originally uploaded by jennrivo.

yet another angle…

mosaic, entitled “Waterdance,”, which was recently installed in the Lyle Center amphitheater. The mosaic was designed by Cal Poly Pomona Art Instructor, Joyce Hesselgrave, and was constructed by students in her mosaics courses last year” for more info click here “The inspiration for the design is our special resource of water,” Hesselgrave says. “I used the images of flowing water and rock terrain as my muse. The actual drawing is based upon a ‘fractal’ idea of a topographical map of the Lyle Center.”

to see Joyce’s pics click here

Mosaic Art Source - Mosaic Stairs & Step Images Archive

Mosaic in the shadows, originally uploaded by jennrivo.

A different angle…

mosaic, entitled “Waterdance,”, which was recently installed in the Lyle Center amphitheater. The mosaic was designed by Cal Poly Pomona Art Instructor, Joyce Hesselgrave, and was constructed by students in her mosaics courses last year” for more info click here “The inspiration for the design is our special resource of water,” Hesselgrave says. “I used the images of flowing water and rock terrain as my muse. The actual drawing is based upon a ‘fractal’ idea of a topographical map of the Lyle Center.”

to see Joyce’s pics click here

Mosaic Art Source - Mosaic Stairs & Step Images Archive

Mosaic, originally uploaded by jennrivo.

mosaic, entitled “Waterdance,”, which was recently installed in the Lyle Center amphitheater. The mosaic was designed by Cal Poly Pomona Art Instructor, Joyce Hesselgrave, and was constructed by students in her mosaics courses last year” for more info click here “The inspiration for the design is our special resource of water,” Hesselgrave says. “I used the images of flowing water and rock terrain as my muse. The actual drawing is based upon a ‘fractal’ idea of a topographical map of the Lyle Center.”

to see Joyce’s pics click here

Mosaic Art Source - Mosaic Stairs & Step Images Archive

Tricycle?, originally uploaded by phillip ino.  aka Francis Cruzada

or a bicycle, designed by committee. ;-)   Austin, Texas

“Seventy years ago, East 11th Street was Austin’s mecca for jazz. Amateur groups played at local parks on weekend afternoons, and legends Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Ornette Coleman played at eastside venues like Charlie’s Playhouse and the Cotton Club. Those great jazz joints may be a thing of the past, but the brass is alive again on the east side. It bursts forth in “Rhapsody,” a vivid and intricate mosaic mural by artist John Yancey.”

For the full article check out  http://www.utexas.edu/features/archive/2004/mural.html 

Hangin’ out, originally uploaded by phillip ino.  aka Francis Cruzada

“Seventy years ago, East 11th Street was Austin’s mecca for jazz. Amateur groups played at local parks on weekend afternoons, and legends Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Ornette Coleman played at eastside venues like Charlie’s Playhouse and the Cotton Club. Those great jazz joints may be a thing of the past, but the brass is alive again on the east side. It bursts forth in “Rhapsody,” a vivid and intricate mosaic mural by artist John Yancey.”

For the full article check out  http://www.utexas.edu/features/archive/2004/mural.html  

Mosaic 2, originally uploaded by phillip ino.  aka Francis Cruzada   Austin, Texas

“Seventy years ago, East 11th Street was Austin’s mecca for jazz. Amateur groups played at local parks on weekend afternoons, and legends Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Ornette Coleman played at eastside venues like Charlie’s Playhouse and the Cotton Club. Those great jazz joints may be a thing of the past, but the brass is alive again on the east side. It bursts forth in “Rhapsody,” a vivid and intricate mosaic mural by artist John Yancey.”

For the full article check out  http://www.utexas.edu/features/archive/2004/mural.html  

Mosaic 1, originally uploaded by phillip ino.  aka Francis Cruzada  Austin Texas

“Seventy years ago, East 11th Street was Austin’s mecca for jazz. Amateur groups played at local parks on weekend afternoons, and legends Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Ornette Coleman played at eastside venues like Charlie’s Playhouse and the Cotton Club. Those great jazz joints may be a thing of the past, but the brass is alive again on the east side. It bursts forth in “Rhapsody,” a vivid and intricate mosaic mural by artist John Yancey.”

For the full article check out  http://www.utexas.edu/features/archive/2004/mural.html 

Happy Treeeees!, originally uploaded by phillip ino.  aka Francis Cruzada

mosaic - austin, texas

No Plans, originally uploaded by phillip ino.  aka Francis Cruzada   austin, texas

Funny how things sometimes turn out better when you have no plans at all…  Mosaic detail

hong kong, originally uploaded by tiny slip of a girl.

close up of the lovely mosaic used in several sculptures around repulse bay

Spam in the Rocks, originally uploaded by rubey_kay.

Spam Museum - Austin, Minnesota

have been having spam issues lately, just couldn’t resist this one… ;o)

Frog Mosaic (Tadpole Playground Boston Common), originally uploaded by DLTbluefrog.

Tadpole Playground Mosaic - Boston Common

Mosaic Whale, originally uploaded by fumfum.

Victoria, British Columbia

Mosaic, originally uploaded by kamaru.

Delancey subway station

Moscone Mural, originally uploaded by kid_serve.

This mosaic mural was created by 2nd graders as part of a Kid Serve project at George Moscone Elementary School in San Francisco during March 2005.

Moscone Mural - Detail, originally uploaded by kid_serve.

Kid Serve is an arts education program guiding students age 6-18 through the design and creation of permanent outdoor murals in their communities. The 8 and 14 week projects integrate social justice, creativity and community service and empowers young people to take a leadership role in beautifying and transforming their neighborhoods.

Kid Serve Supervising Artist & Director is Josef Norris

Thanks for the info Josef, you’re doing such wonderful work with these children! I thought there may have been a little of the Isaiah Zagar mosaic influence in there, your murals are so much fun… ;o) Wish we could start something like this up here in Canada! I’ve included your comments in this post cause for some reason the comments are not showing up in the regular format…

Moscone Mural - Fabrication, originally uploaded by kid_serve.

Josef Norris | josef@kidserve.com | kidserve.com

Hi -
Thanks for posting my mural! You had a question about Kid Serve -
here goes…
I’ve been running Kid Serve Youth Murals for 7 years. We do mural residenc ies in San Francisco and Oakland public schools. I’ll usually work with a class for a semester (14 weeks) and guide the kids (age 4 - 1 through the process of designing and creating an outdoor mural in their community. We’ve done about 50 of these so far.

I started out as a painter - and then met Isaiah Zagar in Philadelphia in 2002. After working with him for a couple of days I’ve been doing mosaics ever since. Another former Isaiah student Laurel True is based in Oaland and has set up the Mosaic Institute of Oakland - a great resource for mosaic artists in this part of the country.

Thanks again for your interest.

Josef

click here for more about making mosaic murals with children

Children’s Village Mural, originally uploaded by kid_serve.

Children’s Village Mural, originally uploaded by kid_serve.

Children’s Village Mural, originally uploaded by kid_serve.

This mosaic mural is located on 10th Street (between Howard and Folsom) in San Francisco during the summer of 2006. This mural is on the front of a pre-school called Children’s Village. The lower part of the mural was created with 4 year olds from the center. This is a Kid Serve mural.

click here for more about kid serve mosaic murals

Children’s Village Mural, originally uploaded by kid_serve.

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CIRCLE MOSAIC, originally uploaded by Kentigern.

glasgow, scotland

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CIRCLE MOSIAC 2, originally uploaded by Kentigern.

kentigern, glasgow

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Mosaics Museum, originally uploaded by alanaplin.

Young boy with puppy mosaic dating from 500 AD. Istanbul, Turkey