Mosaic Collaborative Project: A Team Approach to Creating a Diptych

NEMS members teamed up with other mosaic artist to create two original mosaics. Each person started work on a piece and completed one half of the mosaic. Then they swapped mosaics with the other person on their team. Your teammate then finished the mosaic you started. The challenge for the second person is to decide whether to continue and compliment the style of the first mosaicist, or contrast. This is an interesting way to work as it disrupts your usual flow and you have to respond to what is there. You get to keep the mosaic you started.  Many thanks to BAMM (British Association for Modern Mosaic) and to Marian Shapiro for coming up with this idea!

Details:

Size of Substrate: We recommend smaller substrates i.e. 8×8 or 8×10 or 10X10. However, each person on the team can determine the substrate size he/she uses.

  • Creative Concept/Inspiration: Teammates may talk about the creative design, theme and style to determine if they should be similar or different.
  • Substrate & Materials: Artists can use whatever substrate and materials they wish. Substrate materials could include: Wedi, Hydroban, MDF and more.
  • Method – The Artist can choose which ever method he/she wants to use. For example, you can use the direct method with thinset, or an indirect method with Weldbond. You can use multiple methods in each mosaic.
  • Only 2D mosaics will be accepted.
  • Items can be for sale or NFS.

Below are the entries from the project and the names of the participants

Angel Cacciola & Jane Snedeker

   

Jane Snedeker & Angel Cacciola

       

Roberta Tobey Gertz & Linda Biggers

       

Linda Biggers & Roberta Tobey Gertz

       

Richard Youngstrom & Audrey Markoff

       

Audrey Markoff & Richard Youngstrom

     

Beth Klingher & Laurie Frazer

       

Beth Klingher & Jane Chaskey

       

Laurie Frazer, Beth Klingher & Jane Chaskey

       

Linda Cundiff & Betsy Rodman

       

Betsy Rodman & Linda Cundiff

       

Nikki Sullivan & Deb Aldo

  

Deb Aldo & Nikki Sullivan

     

Ann Collins & Susan Altman

       

Elizabeth Martinez & Cynthia Fisher

     

Cynthia Fisher & Elizabeth Martinez

       

Amy Lou Marks & Suzanne Owayda

       

Suzanne Owayda & Amy Lou Marks

       

Su Bailey & Lauren Mehrberg

       

Lauren Mehrberg & Su Bailey

       

Candace Jackman & Suska Matsik

       

 

Suska Matsik &  Candace Jackman

       

 

Crystal D’Abbraccio &  Cecilia Kremer

       

 

Cecilia Kremer & Crystal D’Abbraccio

         

 

Maggie Neilly, Jeanne Bragdon &  Carrie Fradkin

             

 

Jeanne Bragdon, Maggie Neilly &  Carrie Fradkin

       

 

Carrie Fradkin, Maggie Neilly & Jeanne Bragdon

               

 

Cathleen Newsham & Michael Ferreira