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Queen Califia's Magic Circle
Niki de Saint Phalle | 1930-2002 | Escondido, CA Mosaic environment I am hesitant to call Niki de Saint Phalle an outsider, although she had a rich life surrounded by artists. But she is...
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Powerful video about mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar
“In a Dream” by his son Jeremiah Zagar…winner of SXSW 2008 Emerging Visions Audience Winner. (click here to see a longer trailer) (click here for more information) (see the trailer:) Over the past...
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Watts Tower Art Center closure!
In 2009 the Watts Towers Arts Center celebrated “50 years of inspiring art.” Today it is being dismantled. Unthinkable? All Watts Towers Art Center classes have been canceled. The Educational...
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Watts Towers in the LA Times today
EDITORIAL Don’t let the spires crumble Amid a city budget crisis, LACMA offers its help in preserving the Watts Towers. It’s a good first step. April 12, 2010 The all-too-few art patrons who have...
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Bud Goldstone (Watts Towers engineer) dies at 89
This has been a tough few months for the folk art world, Mr. Imagination, Ronald Manolio (Eggshelland), Ronald Cooper, Rev. Dennis (Margaret’s Grocery), and now NJ “Bud” Goldstone – the engineer who...
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Isaiah Zagar's urban mosaic wonderland
Isaiah Zagar Artists dates unknown 1020 South Street Philadelphia, PA Mosiac environment Jawdropping good stuff everywhere you turn is how I’d describe what Isaiah’s tile work. Because there’s so much...
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“I had it in my mind to do something big and I did.”– Simon Rodia, Watts Towers
Watts Towers – Sabatino (Simon, Sam) Rodia 1879–1965 Los Angeles, CA Mosaic environment Built: c. 1921-1954 “I had it in my mind to do something big and I did.” – Museum of American Folk Art...
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Magical mosaic in the New Jersey woodlands — Luna Parc
Luna Parc – Ricky “King Ricky” Boscarino Artist dates unknown Montague, NJ Mosiac environment Built: 1989 – current Private property Since 1989, when Ricky Boscarino stumbled upon the cabin in the...
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On the sunny side of life – Sunnyslope
Sunnyslope Rock Garden – Grover Cleveland Thompson ? — 1978 Phoenix, AZ Environment with rocks “I don’t think his wife liked it so much. Maybe that’s why he spent so much time out here working on it.”...
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Queen Califia’s Magical Circle is a mosaic paradise
Queen Califia’s Magical Circle – Niki de Saint Phalle 1930–2002 Escondido, CA Mosaic environment She was well known in the field of contemporary art. Influenced by figures such as Jean Dubuffet and...
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