COMMUNITY MOSAIC PROJECTS

Community Mosaic Projects are fun!  I particularly enjoy working with a variety of age groups. Most of the images in this group are from the Shelburne Falls Mosaic Murals Project which I worked on in 2009-2010. There are 12 mosaics located on the sides of buildings in Shelburne Falls, and Buckland, MA, my home town. Volunteers ranged in age from
 elementary, middle and high school students to Senior Center volunteers; installing the Shelburne mosaic.
This was a huge undertaking and you can read more about it in this written summary, Shelburne Falls Mosaic Murals Project. Below this grouping are a few other community mosaic projects I have undertaken. 

DEERFIELD RIVER habitat for wildlife, including endangered species, sport fisherman, hydroelectric dam, annual Riverfest Parade.

Mosaic depicting earlier days when American Indians spent time in the area. I really enjoyed researching this topic for the information and images included.

Conway town mosaic is located on the McCusker's building in Shelburne Falls, MA.

COLRAIN: town center, pond at Catamount, dairy farm off Rt 112, first flag ever flown at a schoolhouse was in Colrain!, old schoolhouse, mountain lion sign on Colrain Mt section of Rt 112, neon American Flag. 1 of 12 mosaics located in Shelburne Falls, MA

Working with middle school art students at Mohawk High School. Elementary students did most of the mosaic fabrication and older kids finshed up.

HEATH: Heath fair T-shirt, blueberry fork with fruit, farm scene and sunflowers, now grown in Heath for oil production.

ASHFIELD: with spire of town hall surrounded by Southface Farm, Ashfield Lake, Belted Galway cattle at Gray's farm, and Fall Festival.

HAWLEY: map of the town showing the forests and some of the wildlife in the area, image of the beehive kiln on the edge of Hawley State Forest. I know this forest well as I x-c ski, mountain bike and run there - and I can attest to personal sitings of all wildlife depicted, including black bear, moose, beaver and fox.

CONWAY: stone gristmill wheel as backdrop for the Field Library, Conway Pond, and Organic Roots farmer Dave Fisher farming with his draft horses.

BUCKLAND: night scene of a deer, old trolley car, historic image of record breaking large steer, Mary Lyon portrait, and Buckland Public Library.

ROWE: Rowe Pond with wildlife and gazebo. I particularly love the underwater view here.

PLAINFIELD: theme of 'Plainfield now and then', image ideas from a 3rd grade Plainfield student at Sanderson Academy: a girl churning butter, old mill site, sheep farming for 'then' and horseback riders, mill site, and canoeing on Plainfield Pond for 'today'.

CHARLEMONT: with Berkshire East Ski area, Avery's Store from an historic photo, rafting the Deerfield River with Zoar Outdoor, and the covered Bissell Bridge.

SHELBURNE: depicting the world famous Bridge of Flowers and Grandma Moses style rural background scenery,

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"WATER" 2018 60" H x 108"W. A mosaic created at the annual conference for the Society of American Mosaic Artists in Boston. Conference attendees participated in laying mosaic tile in the indirect method and finished in a record 3 days. I created the design for the organization 'Boston Harbor Now', with the center mandala by mosaic artist Deb Aldo. The 3 panel mural is now on display at the Rose Kennedy Greenway in downtown Boston.

Sustainability, Franklin County MA, this mosaic is a community project in that a Greenfield, MA youth group made the hand component. This hangs in the John Olver Transit Center in downtown Greenfield, MA.

Double Edge Theatre mosaic, Asfield, MA to the theme of Homer’s 'The Odyssey'. The theatre group considers Marc Chagall their muse, so I turned to his style of art for inspiration.

Installation day, like the rest of this project was non-stop all out effort. The mosaic is on 3 cement sections. Great community participation, and so fun to be working in the midst of the Double Edge Theatre crew, such a different kind of creativity.

Calypso is on the left, with flowers, fish and sailboats, a river of water and a band of mirror just a few of the elements included.