Learn how to create mosaics at Cape Cod Mosaic Workshops

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Cod Mosaic Workshops features a new location for its summer session.





Cape Cod Mosaic Workshops has grown in its fourth year of offering mosaic

workshops to beginner and advanced students. “From the beginning, we were

fortunate to offer our workshops in the gloriously restored Highfield Hall.

This year we are excited to add the newly built Falmouth Art Center as a second

location. “This is the perfect place to hold classes because of the sun

drenched classroom specifically designed for this purpose.” states Jim Bowen,

director and owner. “We are also pleased to offer classes in Highfield Hall

again, with its beautiful building and stately grounds.”

With

nationally recognized teachers who have won both international and national

awards at various mosaic exhibitions, this season includes classes for advanced

mosaic artists as well as ones for beginning students who have always dreamed

of creating their own work of art. The school, which is also operated by Mr.

Bowen’s wife Debbie, boasts that they have “taught hundreds of students from

all over the USA and Canada. Last year we had a student fly in from Alaska and

another traveled from Israel.”

Students are

encouraged to combine the educational experience with a vacation on Cape Cod.

Both venues are conveniently located close to Falmouth Village and its sandy

white beaches. “We have made arrangements with a number of B&B’s and hotels

to offer discounts for our visitors” says Debbie Bowen. “We love to give our

students ideas of things to do and place to go. We even have a ‘concierge’ page

on our web site to help them plan their trip.”

The workshop lineup is as follows: Jim Bowen will lead an Introduction to

Mosaics workshop April 26 and 27 at the Falmouth Art Center. The workshop will

be geared toward beginning students with little or no experience. Other

workshops at Falmouth Art Center include Yulia Hanansen who returns to CCMW to

lead the workshop, titled Flower Power … Plus!  Kelley Knickerbocker will lead a workshop in

which students will create a highly textured mosaic of disparate hard materials

such as stone, glass, metal, ceramic. San Francisco mosaic artist Michael

Kruzich will lead a three-day workshop using a hammer and hardie to cut the Italian

glass called smalti and create a classical piece. “Realism in Mosaic Using

Stained Glass” will be the topic addressed by instructor Carol Shelkin. She has

taught in Mexico, Costa Rica, and Spain in 2013. Highfield Hall will be the

venue for Mr. Bowen’s “Make a Mosaic Memory Mirror” on August 18 and 19. The

final class features another returning artist, Cynthia Fisher, who taught at

CCMW in 2011 and 2012. In this workshop, to be held at Highfield Hall, students

will focus on various ways to approach creating a mosaic back-splash, and “how

to” tips to make a tabletop or mosaic wall panel.


To register for the workshops, go to www.capecodmosaicworkshops.com. Or call 774-521-8408 for more

information.