celebration/unveiling of the mosaic mural at
Breck school on Wednesday night Oct 8th
 Time 6:30 - 9:00
123 Ottawa Ave. N in Golden Valley
you will need to enter through the lower school doors and tell the guard you are going to the chapel
http://www.breckschool.org/news/breck_news/news_08_10_02/
Twin Cities Tile Tour
Saturday October 25, 2008
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Cost $135 includes lunch
HTA members recieve 10% off
To register, please call Norma Hanlon, SoMi Tileworks at 612 824 3325 You may also register by email at norma@somitileworks.com Payment can be made by check or credit card. Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover cards can be accepted. 
This tour will be a benefit to help create a scholarship fund to aid new and emerging tile and mosaic artists become an active part of the Handmade Tile Association
Join us for a day-long bus tour of beautiful handmade tiles and mosaics that have been created and installed by artists and craftspeople in public spaces throughout the Twin Cities While there is a thriving local community of contemporary handmade tile makers, tile making as an art form has a long and fascinating history in our area
We will meet at the SoMi Tileworks Studio at 9 a.m. for continental breakfast and then board a bus at 9:15 to begin our guided tour Led by Norma Hanlon and Kirsten Walstead of SoMi Tileworks and Josh Blanc of Clay Squared to Infinity Gallery and Studio, we will visit historic and contemporary tile and mosaic installation sites throughout Minneapolis and St. Paul The tour will feature visits to Lakewood Cemetery Chapel which has a magnificent interior or Italian glass mosaic installed in 1910, the American Swedish Institute with its historic Swedish tile stoves, the College of St. Catherine Chapel which features amazing arts and crafts style tiles made by Ernest Batchelder and various other tile and mosaic installation sites.
After the tour, you will return to the SoMi Tileworks Studio for a hands-on tile making experience You will learn about the studio’s tile production methods and have the opportunity to make a bas-relief tile of your very own The tiles will be fired and glazed and mailed to you approximately two weeks following the tour day
MOSAIC ZOO
Mosaics by Barbara Benson Keith
October 23–November 30 — Lobby Gallery
Public reception and book release: October 23, 6–8 pm
Barbara Benson Keith will share 26 of her latest glass mosaics at the Hopkins Cener for the Arts. These mosaics were used as the illustrations in her new alphabet book, Mosaic Zoo. Please join her at eh reception when she will be signing copies of her book.
Hopkins Center for the Arts
1111 Mainstreet
Hopkins, MN 55343
www.hopkinsartscenter.com
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