by zwackart | Sep 3, 2015 | Recent Projects
We did a 2 day community build installation in late August. Here’s some snaps of the fun! This is the 2nd year of an ongoing community built, artist led and organized, mosaic mural (now about 70′ long!), on the wall of the DPW facility, facing the...
by zwackart | Feb 10, 2015 | New in the Studio
I have been experimenting with melting glass onto my ceramic work. Here is a fun example! The base tile is a high fire ceramic sculpture with a Burdock leaf imprint on it. It has been glazed several times, but I was looking for further richness of color. I am pretty...
by zwackart | Feb 5, 2015 | Recent Projects
A woman recently contacted me to commission a mosaic back-splash for her kitchen. She already had red accents in her kitchen, so she chose a theme of red vegetables and fruit. Here are some shiny cherries, watermelon, radishes, peppers, tomatoes, and apples. (I made...
by zwackart | Jan 27, 2015 | Recent Projects
The first panel, in the ongoing 1st St. Mosaic Project, is now complete and stands sparkling in the sun for all to see!
by zwackart | Jul 2, 2014 | In the Classroom
This is my third year teaching art classes to the students in the Cornell Upward Bound program. Today we worked on figure drawing and some portraiture, in charcoal on large format paper, with a model. And the model is a young woman who took private art lessons from me...