ZwackArt

Glazed ceramic tile, fresh out of the kiln at Zwackart studios. Latest installment of work on public art mosaic mural to be installed in Ithaca, NY in Spring of ...

Spirit of Ithaca Mosaic Back in January, the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County, New York and The City of Ithaca Public Arts Commission put out a call for design submissions for a mural ...

This year I won a Crossroads grant to create a tile mosaic and work with Robert Salvato, a skilled wood working artist to create a bench for a public park in Erin, NY. Below are some images from my process of making it.  ...

This past Wednesday, I met with four classes of third graders at Van Etten elementary school in Van Etten, New York. We talked about the fact that both scientists and artists need to use their skills of observation in their work. We used pencil, colored pencil, and crayons to draw plant specimen that the students had ...

As you may have noticed on the calendar, I’ve been teaching a drawing class at the local Middle School after school. I was inspired by the snowy landscape here in rural central ...

I have a friend who makes maple syrup from the trees on her land. Recently, she had a baby girl. She asked me if I would make a wall hanging in black and white of a tree to hang over her daughter’s bed. I have heard that the high contrast between black and white is one of the first visual distinctions the human ...

Yea! Just before Winter Solstice I found out that the Crossroads grant that wood working artist, sculpture and builder Robert Salvato and I had applied for to create a mosaiced bench had been approved. The bench will be built out of locally rot resistant black locust and have panels where I will make mosaics ...

This is grant writing season and I have a lot of cool new projects I am collaborating on. In a nearby rural town there is a small dedicated group of people who have been working hard to make a public park behind their fire station. They would like to work with me and another artist to make unique benches with mosaics ...