Embracing The Broken: Mosaic and Metaphor - with Karen Ami
Each one of us holds beautiful yet imperfect stories within us that, when expressed through art can be shared and bring connection and healing to the world. We can repair by telling our own, original stories. In this four-day workshop, lead by artist and CMS founder Karen Ami, students will compose and create works with personal and collected items as well as a selection of studio materials provided at the workshop.
Mosaics are a specific art form built upon a framework or narrative. While not collage or assemblage, this medium shares the action/process of gathering, collecting, and reinvention. Shards, nostalgic relics, fragmented and fractured materials are fixed and set into mortar -restoring and giving new life to what was broken, an action of redemption and repair. Through a series of exercises, students will write, draw, compose and play relating to an issue or story that will generate a work in mosaic.
Using the philosophy of Wabi Sabi as well as the practice of kintsugi, students will discuss essays on process and practice by various artists. Assignments will focus on a series of mosaic ‘sketches’, creating original tesserae, or elements out of clay, and drawing ‘cartoons’ as a process for recording ideas and planning new works. Students will complete a final piece incorporating the concepts and possibilities offered in this workshop. Topics will include sourcing materials, the importance of appropriate substrates and adhesives and drawing for mosaic designs.
All materials are included. No prerequisite.
When registering for classes at CMS, please be aware of our refund and cancellation policy.
Each one of us holds beautiful yet imperfect stories within us that, when expressed through art can be shared and bring connection and healing to the world. We can repair by telling our own, original stories. In this four-day workshop, lead by artist and CMS founder Karen Ami, students will compose and create works with personal and collected items as well as a selection of studio materials provided at the workshop.
Mosaics are a specific art form built upon a framework or narrative. While not collage or assemblage, this medium shares the action/process of gathering, collecting, and reinvention. Shards, nostalgic relics, fragmented and fractured materials are fixed and set into mortar -restoring and giving new life to what was broken, an action of redemption and repair. Through a series of exercises, students will write, draw, compose and play relating to an issue or story that will generate a work in mosaic.
Using the philosophy of Wabi Sabi as well as the practice of kintsugi, students will discuss essays on process and practice by various artists. Assignments will focus on a series of mosaic ‘sketches’, creating original tesserae, or elements out of clay, and drawing ‘cartoons’ as a process for recording ideas and planning new works. Students will complete a final piece incorporating the concepts and possibilities offered in this workshop. Topics will include sourcing materials, the importance of appropriate substrates and adhesives and drawing for mosaic designs.
All materials are included. No prerequisite.
When registering for classes at CMS, please be aware of our refund and cancellation policy.
Each one of us holds beautiful yet imperfect stories within us that, when expressed through art can be shared and bring connection and healing to the world. We can repair by telling our own, original stories. In this four-day workshop, lead by artist and CMS founder Karen Ami, students will compose and create works with personal and collected items as well as a selection of studio materials provided at the workshop.
Mosaics are a specific art form built upon a framework or narrative. While not collage or assemblage, this medium shares the action/process of gathering, collecting, and reinvention. Shards, nostalgic relics, fragmented and fractured materials are fixed and set into mortar -restoring and giving new life to what was broken, an action of redemption and repair. Through a series of exercises, students will write, draw, compose and play relating to an issue or story that will generate a work in mosaic.
Using the philosophy of Wabi Sabi as well as the practice of kintsugi, students will discuss essays on process and practice by various artists. Assignments will focus on a series of mosaic ‘sketches’, creating original tesserae, or elements out of clay, and drawing ‘cartoons’ as a process for recording ideas and planning new works. Students will complete a final piece incorporating the concepts and possibilities offered in this workshop. Topics will include sourcing materials, the importance of appropriate substrates and adhesives and drawing for mosaic designs.
All materials are included. No prerequisite.
When registering for classes at CMS, please be aware of our refund and cancellation policy.
