Docent art, from the Friday workshop
Did you enjoy the training workshop for Tumbling Tiles? Are you looking forward to teaching the lesson? Great!
Here are some more resources for the background material:
Terrific Tiles: an accessible e-book (by me!) of photos similar to my slideshow today.
More about the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and how it relates to medieval Islamic tilework.
Isfahan in Iran has been named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Here's a gallery of images from a UNESCO website of the Meidan Emam, Isfahan.
Here's a nice website of Moorish tilework in Sevilla, Spain.
More about William Morris's designs for tiles (with a lot of images).
The MOMA page about Frank Stella.
An interview with artist Valerie Jaudon, conducted by fellow artist Shirley Kaneda.
Also, here's more information about The Power of Art event, the next two weekends.
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