In December I went to a salon in Minneapolis and had dreadlocks done. The dreads were created with the use of a "dread perm" and I...

Art Amiba post - does art speak louder than words? I am of two minds when I think about artists statements... primarily I think crafting a...

Earlier this month I dreaded my hair. I thought about it for a long, long time. Since I lead a double-life (professional at a Catholic unive...

This one was done by one of my workshop participants. It was her first mosaic. 

I've been creating a new studio for the last couple weeks. I cleared out an unused bedroom (next to the glass/mosaic studio), covered th...

Some photos from days 3 & 4, where we finished up carving our foam armatures, covered them with mesh, learned how to mix and apply the i...

Too tired to write much, but here are some images from the workshop I am at this week. Later in the workshop the piece photographed below w...

Finished this mosaic tonight. Most of the work was finished last night. Tonight I just added the hanging hardware and cleaned up some of the...

I just learned that a friend from years back died from a heart attack this past Friday. He wasn't even 50. It's very sad. And even...

I received the following by email this morning... "Christmas card idea What a clever idea! Yes, Christmas cards. This is coming ear...

I'm going to wait until I get back from Sherri Warner Hunter 's 5-day Sculptural Forms workshop at the Chicago Mosaic School to con...

Here's the partially assembled sculpture of m'dusa. I need to make about 8 more tendrils - she's a bit bald in back. Once I ha...

It's a new mosaic project - I bet you guessed that...

I feel sort of guilty that I haven't been posting lately - I haven't been doing much writing at all other than for work or some of t...

It seems to me, after these past 10 days, that the death of a dear one makes us feel like we are ourselves lost. Tragic, unexpected, untim...

A great friend is gone and today, or tomorrow they are turning off the machines that are keeping his body alive. A new experience for me and...

My Las Vegas vacation is just about over. We've been here about a week. We've done some fun things and spent some great family time....

in a floating garden .

My interview on KQAL played today . The editor did a good job taking nearly 2 hours of material and coming up with a good 25 minutes or so. ...

I have finished the Sheba mosaic. I decided not to trim the edge tesserae, but instead to let them hang out over the frame. Next I have a...