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Feature Project: “Peaceful Pond”
JUST INSTALLED: HealthPartners Frauenshuh Cancer Center (Methodist Hospital), St. Louis Park, MN. Having lost parents and closest friends to cancer, this project was personal. For years, the Center’s art collection – many pieces made possible by generous financial donations – has exemplified the power of healing art in healthcare spaces. "Peaceful Pond" (commissioned by an art consultancy firm) complements the hospital’s beautiful wetland setting.
Peaceful Pond 42” x 30” mixed media: glass, plus hand-made tile and shell beads for slight dimension.
The mosaic has undulating sides and finished, mosaic edges, rather than a traditional frame.
A highlight is this patient, wading Egret.
Using remaining glass, Stacia made a mosaic photo frame as a special gift for the financial donor.
Public Art News
WORK-IN-PROGRESS: North Lakeland Discovery Center, Wisconsin. Despite tile-delivery delays, we’re making progress on this main-entrance floor medallion for a beautiful nature center in Manitowish Waters. We’re working with heavy duty floor tile, so it’s truly “hard” work! Getting the imagery right requires hand and electric tools, and a whole lotta time. In the next few newsletters, we’ll show the medallion coming together.
The mosaic floor medallion will be 72" in diameter and feature native wildlife and plants.
The loon is coming along swimmingly.
Pond Water-Crowfoot is a native plant species included in the mosaic.
NEW VIDEO: Central Lutheran Church, Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Check out this one-minute project-overview video taken at the recent dedication ceremony for the mosaic baptismal font we completed. It was one of three architectural mosaic projects we did for the church over the past year:
• Baptismal font/fountain 3 @ 4’ diameter
• Pascal candle holder 4” x 40” x 8 sides
• Floor inlays 35 @ 6” x 6"
Watch Video
With the remaining tile, we also made several mosaic crosses (9" x 6") for the church to use as gifts. The sides are painted a metallic gold to match the center gold tile leaf.
Art Consultants, Designers & Space-Sprucer-Uppers
Breathing new life into older work. Shades of blue have taken over the design world, and we couldn’t be happier. If you know our work, you know how much we love infusing spaces with color – and breaking “art world” rules. Here’s an available work that recently received a facelift to better fit modern spaces.
AFTER SHOT:
“An Ocean Within Me” 24”x 24” wood, vintage block lettering in black wooden frame.
BEFORE SHOT:
“Brown, White, Black” 24”x 24” wood, vintage block lettering in black wooden frame.
In the News
COMMUNITY FUN: St. Louis Park Art Fair. Who likes puzzles? Apparently, everyone. Stacia volunteered at the day-long fair, overseeing a fun experiment and keeping her community engagement skills sharp. She heaped her scrap tile on a big table for people to arrange impromptu, temporary mosaics – make your own or add to another’s. No gluing down; no pressure. Participants could also fill a Ziplock bag with free take-home tile to glue onto a sturdy paper plate. What a hit for all ages!
Photos from the St. Louis Park Art Fair last month.
Read/see this media story.
Stacia’s Pattern-Gram
About Stacia Goodman Mosaics. Our Minnesota-based artisan team designs, fabricates and installs site-specific modern mosaic art nationally. Visit Stacia Goodman Mosaics to inquire and see available work.
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