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MOSAIC SHOWCASE
Save $5.00 with a Spruill Center for the Arts Membership - New and Renewal
Course Number: 253CEMO050
Dates: Saturday, September 6, 2025
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Meets: Sa from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Fee: $10.00
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Save $5.00 with a Spruill Center for the Arts Membership - New and Renewal
Fee Breakdown
| Category | Description | Amount |
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| Course Fee (Basic) | Non-member | $ 10.00 |
| Optional Fee | Donation | $ 1.00 |
Julie Mazzoni
mazztroop@yahoo.com
Julie's Classes
Julie Mazzoni teaches Mosaics. She takes an integrated approach to teaching that blends her personality and interests with my student's needs. She tries to be a facilitator that will help her students achieve their goals, with a few demos and lectures to guide them. More of Julie's work can be found at:
www.facebook.com/Mazzoni-Mosaics
www.instagram.com/mazzonimosaics/
Julie has a Bachelor of Architecture from Kansas State University and has always enjoyed artwork. Julie created children's murals for six years before moving to watercolors and acrylics. In 2009, Julie discovered the joy of mosaic art and completed her first piece. She realized that making mosaics is very time consuming and she would need help to mosaic the world. Julie decided to teach so others could help her! She is also self-taught.
Julie has exhibited my work locally, nationally and internationally. Most notably at Mosaic Arts International exhibitions, at The Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas, TX, The Women's Museum of California in San Diego, CA, The Parthenon Museum in Nashville, TN, and Orsoni Gallery in Venice, Italy.
Julie cites Sonia King, Guilio Menossi, and Dino Maccini as her favorite artists. She says The Society of American Mosaic Artists has had the biggest influence on her, opening her eyes to the possibilities within mosaics.
Artist's Statement
For me, the tactile pleasure of working with the materials is in competition with the visual delight of the eye candy aspect of the tessarae. Similarly, each piece competes against the entire mosaic. I must carefully consider the design elements of each piece’s placement, shape, color, and texture and of the whole composition. The juxtaposition keeps pulling at me until I find a satisfactory balance. Each piece laid offers a whole host of parallel ideas for future projects.
Mosaic is a clear reflection of life. Made of many components, there are infinite possibilities. The struggle is to decide which materials and compositions merit the time needed to create. Once the goal has been determined, then it is a joy to labor towards that end. And when one mosaic is completed, the process starts anew. Working on mosaics wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Marty Speight
Marty's Classes
Marty Speight is a mixed-media artist based in Marietta, GA. Marty has passionate interests in a variety of media and disciplines including mosaics, mixed-media painting, collage, and textiles. Marty's early love for glass lead her into part-time teaching of stained-glass craft in her twenties. But then a busy family life and business career took her away from artistic pursuits (she holds a BS degree from UNC and an MBA from UVA). By 2016 Marty moved into a "second act" in her professional life as a career coach, allowing her to return to avid art making.
She began studying mosaics with Janice Schmidt at Spruill Center for the Arts, then collage and fine arts with Chery Baird. Marty has also studied with mosaic artist Rachel Davies (Scotland) and mixed media artist Tara Axford (New Zealand). Marty is a member of the Atlanta Collage Society and exhibits regularly in ACS shows; her recent collage work "Bluebird Box" was awarded best-in-show at the 2023 Callanwolde Fine Arts Center exhibition themed "Building Reflections: Contemplations in Collage".
Artist Statement My artistic style is evolving towards abstraction and is informed by my pull towards both the structural form of grids and the organic forms found in nature. I seek to explore where my ancestral roots of handcraft (including masonry, building, quilting) can lead me. Constructing collage, mosaic or quilts requires a sense of structure and technical skill as well as piecing together disparate parts into a cohesive whole. I love the expression of subtle emotion through color and form but also delight in the practical know-how of successful execution project execution. As a long-time coach and facilitator, I find great joy in sharing my knowledge with others.
