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Karen Thompson: Flora and Fauna

Karen Thompson: Flora and Fauna

Butterfly Be very careful if you decide to embark on a DIY project. It could change your life forever. In…
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Ilana Shafir: Spontaneous Mosaics

Ilana Shafir: Spontaneous Mosaics

 Mosaic Garden and House. Born in the city of Sarajevo in 1924, now the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ilana…
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Mark Bulwinkle: Tile Stripped Bare

Mark Bulwinkle: Tile Stripped Bare

 The Vacationers. At first glance the artistic world of Mark Bulwinkle appears happy. Animals cavort, flowers bloom, a boy has…
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Jacqueline Moore: A Painter’s Tale in Tile

Jacqueline Moore: A Painter’s Tale in Tile

Portuguese Tile An art history scholar and painter, in 2009 Jacqueline Moore found herself “anxious, afraid, stunted in creativity and…
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ALSIO Design, LLC: Spatial Patterns

ALSIO Design, LLC: Spatial Patterns

Visualization of Proposal for the MTA. Bobby Silverman thought he wanted to be a social geographer, the study of spatial…
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Art of Board: From Tailslide to Tile

Art of Board: From Tailslide to Tile

 Art of Board Kitchen Backsplash (detail) – tiles cut from old, discarded skateboards. Scratched, dented, smashed, and abused, what to…
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Marie Gibbons: Tactile Memory Tile

Marie Gibbons: Tactile Memory Tile

 Installation: “Natural Desire to Climb” Jack and the Beanstalk could do worse than to depend on the “Natural Desire to…
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Susan Tunick: The Color of Clay

Susan Tunick: The Color of Clay

Ceramic artist Susan Tunick has a penchant for scale and surface. All of her creations, site-specific sculptures, mosaic murals and…
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Bella Vista Tile: Material Alchemy

Bella Vista Tile: Material Alchemy

  “Cascade Dream”. Lisa TeviaClark has immersed herself in the material language of her medium. For the past thirty years…
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The Bearable Lightness of Being: Jasna Sokolovic

The Bearable Lightness of Being: Jasna Sokolovic

“Two Birds in Cherry Tree” Jasna Sokolovic left her native Yugoslavia in 1994, venturing to Granville Island, Vancouver. Her architecture…
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