  Tile Maps of Minnesota and Superior Wisconsin
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Twin Cities Tile Tour and Tile Making Workshop
Date: Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Cost: $135 (current HTA members receive a 10% discount)
A box-lunch will be furnished for each participant.
To Register: contact Norma Hanlon, SoMi Tileworks 612-824-3325. You may also register by email to norma@somitileworks.com. Payment can be made by check or credit card. Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover cards can be accepted.
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After expenses have been paid, money raised will be used as an HTA scholarship fund for new tile and mosaic artists.
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 our studio, SoMi Tileworks, at 9 a.m. for continental breakfast and board a bus at 9:15 to begin our guided tour. Led by Norma Hanlon of SoMi Tileworks and Josh Blanc of Clay Squared to Infinity Gallery and Studio, we will visit historic and contemporary tile installation sites throughout Minneapolis and St. Paul. The tour will feature visits to Lakewood Cemetery Chapel which has a magnificent interior of 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.
These maps are an extensive
documentation and guide of historic and contemporary tiles installations
of Minnesota and Superior Wisconsin. The Handmade Tile Association, LLC is continuing to
add historical updates and new finds to our web site. You can purchase maps at the business and museums on listed on the side bar. Maps
can be purchased by mail for only $4.50 or both maps at $9 (both includes postage). Become a Handmade Tile Association member and get both maps for free!
If you are interested in becoming a member of the Handmade Tile Association you may download an application from this site. The application is available as a Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file and can be read using Adobe Reader which is available free at Adobe's web site. Please click the Membership Application link below.
 
Handmade Tile Association.LLC
34 Thirteenth Avenue NE Suite 109
Minneapolis, MN. 55413
Please contact Josh Blanc for further information at (612) 781-6409 or email
josh@handmadetileassociation.org.
Lakewood Cemetery Chapel
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