Pebble Mosaic Workshop

Description

Who hasn’t been tempted to collect the colorful smooth beach rocks found in rivers or on the shoreline?   Here’s your chance to take these beautiful stones and combine them to create a wonderful piece of art for your home or garden.  In this workshop, participants  learn how to create two small mosaics about 5in square or one larger one, 6in x 8in,  using pebbles, beads and other found objects.  The basics of design, cutting, and adhering the materials with thin set mortar so that the mosaic can be placed indoors or outside are covered.  Feel free to bring stones which you may have collected over the years and to use materials supplied by the instructor.

Beth Klingher has been making and teaching mosaic art for the past fifteen years. She creates intricate abstract mosaics inspired by nature by combining a variety of materials including hand-made glass, ceramics, rocks, and stones. As she states “My art is a journey without a predetermined endpoint. The process is as important as the product.

Beth was born in Pomona, New York. She studied Industrial Design at Pratt Institute before graduating from Hamilton College with a degree in studio art where she concentrated in abstract ceramics.  She then made a pivot into business and technology, completing a master’s degree in management from MIT.  The highlight of her business career was the founding of a small software development company in New Haven, CT, which she managed for 17 years.  Her next pivot was education, and she taught middle school math for ten years in New Haven Public Schools. In 2010, she returned to the art world where she continues to create and teach mosaic art. Beth will be offering a Pebble Mosaic Workshop this spring at Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook, CT.

Beth Klingher has exhibited nationally, with recent shows at The Art Complex in Duxbury MA, Kehler-Liddel Gallery in New Haven, CT, and other galleries and art centers throughout New England.