Mosaic Workshop with Alba Cisneros

Description

Studio Artist Alba Cisneros will give a hands-on workshop on the process of creating mosaic artwork. Participants will be provided with the supplies needed to make their very own mosaic tile. This workshop will take place over the course of two separate days, please plan accordingly. 

Saturday, November 14 will work as the tile design day. Participants are required to come with a tile design ready to start putting it together. Alba will guide participants on initial tile designing, demonstrating different styling techniques. If participants are not finished with their tile, they will be allowed to take supplies home to finish it. On Saturday, November 21, participants will return with their completed tiles, grout them, finishing their beautiful masterpieces!

Spots for this event are limited, so reserve your spot early!

About Alba Cisneros:
Alba Cisneros was born and raised in Claremont and has been making art since her early years at Sycamore Elementary School through Pitzer college in the early 1970s, followed by 17 years in the Millard Sheets and Associates Designs and Denis O’Connor Mosaics studios. Alba is a self-employed artist working in her own studio and for Land Design in Pomona, a landscape architecture office where she has been a designer for more than 25 years. While working in the mosaic studio with Millard, Denis and Sue Hertel, among others, she helped to complete more than 80 large-scale mosaic murals for Home Savings and Loan of America, designed by Sheets and Hertel, among others. Alba has also designed and fabricated mosaic tables, signs and logos for various professions, churches and private residences.