Mosaic Plant Pots - Ceramic shards

These are incredible, for indoors or outdoors. In this workshop, you will learn to make mosaics by making one with a medium sized terra cotta pot.  Any larger, and we'll be here for days.  Mosaics date back to Mesopotamia !  You can still learn to make them today !  They're revered the world over as fine crafted works of beauty and can also be quite practical in use.   In this workshop, you'll learn to make these beautiful pieces and you'll never be without a gift to give or you'll never regret breaking another plate !!   We'll begin by covering a modest sized pot, once you learn the skill, you can do them as large as you like !  Purchasing mosaic tiles is quite costly and unnecessary so we prefer to recycle and to use broken shards of my own pottery, or beautiful patterned or textured pieces found in thrift stores.  It's fun breaking them up with a towel and a hammer, then finely shaping with tile and glass nippers !  We'll also use tile adhesive, grout, tools, knippers and the pots themselves.  Besides broken ceramics or tiles, you're also welcome to use glass boullions sea shells, sea glass, bits of decorative metal and such; in time, you'll be scouring the earth for possibilities.

Karen Charbonneau Zukas has been making all kinds of stuff  for most of her life.  Needle Felting is a recent skill acquired, but she has taken off like a rocket, making sweet little domestic and woodland animals for fun.  She is a graduate of Tufts university and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston with a master’s degree in education from Western New England University. She is a recognized portrait painter and potter and former columnist for the Bulletin in Boston. She has been teaching various subjects, primarily advanced ESL, fine art, writing, test prep, debate and humanities; at universities, preparatory, public, private and international schools and community ed in Boston and now locally for over 35 years. She and her family moved back to the south coast in 2013. She is currently working on a book which is a series of short animal stories from her personal experiences. She is the proprietor of Peasantware Pottery in New Bedford and the founder of The New Bedford Art and Cultural Emporium at Kilburn ! Email: kczukas@comcast.net 

Here's a link to glass nippers on Amazon: You can buy them at Home Depot etc.,

https://www.amazon.com/Glass-Tile-Nippers-Soft-grip-Shapping/dp/B0B4MJ5NWZ/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=VMFXU0VU1Z11&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.WmdHL0CqxOpyICt7myMQ_C1sKIRXnmzSF23ZuqwtlEr2mhPd2WQNektXJP7syFBrf-omct6QZGatdXatkg_qKeEroBfMMeqhxOTjziZn4JOLEpbs6K0ZDDRgu_lTP3JZBAec885DeUrRNQiXm-LPLXkpmCA_qn5l8lQYzAkPRqTFrdTgBNobcc_4YaFo11TdA8VfTP_HcJL3FvVKcTszHG3Ce8Z-1D8j_FRvMCbivUuvNoOZHk5PRDr3A1IkbRgZgOtmmCK4xNgMoeiihVJpyn_2E0CahNoNtH8cOvhNUXw.qofjN4lY6Afiyrm0OpTKzVFQ_zQeUP:  

Have your GPS take you to 101 West Rodney French Blvd. in New Bedford.  Once there, please park on the end of the building AWAY from the main entrance.  You'll see an ORANGE door that says Mattress Handup...enter there and go up the stairs.  At the top of the stairs...follow small yellow signs for NBACE.  We're right around the corner behind the mural  !!