'Create Your Own Path' mosaic workshop with Joan Schwartz - March 27-29, 2026
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TO RESERVE YOUR SPACE: Pay in Full or use coupon code: DEPOSIT to pay 50% deposit
'MASK UP' Mosaic workshop (3-day class) with Joan Schwartz
Date: March 27-29, 2026 - Friday, Saturday & Sunday
Skill Level: all levels welcome
Hours: 10am – 5pm with a lunch break
Materials included: materials included
Minimum # of students: 6
Description: Inspiration can come from anywhere! In this workshop, we’ll explore the amazing world of GLASS. You’ll be creating 80% of your piece using different shapes and sizes of stained glass, smalti, beads, rods, and stringers, and maybe even some porcelain to add a touch of elegance. The design will highlight the unique qualities of each glass type. Plus, students can fuse a few of their own pieces if they’d like.
Each variety of glass is comprised of it's own individual properties, so we’ll need to use different cutting techniques. I’ll also suggest how to arrange adornments to help bring your design to life. Feel free to bring a few meaningful glass or porcelain pieces to use and share if you’d like.
Once you register, I’ll be sending more details.
STUDENTS SHOULD BRING:
- A few meaningful glass or porcelain pieces they might want to use in their piece.
- Favorite tools: Sharp nippers, breakers (running pilers), pistol glass cutter, tweezers, ruler, Sharpie, pens, pencils, . (Do not buy any new tools; they will be provided for you if you don’t have them).
- Cell phone with built in camera.
- A willingness to learn, laugh and have fun!!
About the Instructor: Joan Schwartz
I’ve made art as long as I can remember, even while working as a pediatric nurse and raising my 3 children.
Several years after I started working in mosaics, I realized it had become a seriously important part of my life. It’s not just the end product but the process itself. It is my mental vacation, a journey in which I get lost in an array of colors, patterns and materials… a viable antidote to stress. It is truly a drug to which I now know I am addicted. When I can’t get down to my studio, I feel out of sync, irritable, and just plain unhappy!
Mosaics has offered me opportunities to travel all over the world, expanding my education, by taking multiple workshops with the most notable instructors, and making life-long, like-minded friends.
A few notable things worth mentioning:
- I have works abroad as well as in the US.
- I’ve participated in many group projects, and charitable works.
- I have been juried into Art Prize twice
- I have been juried into MAI (Mosaic Arts International) 5 times.
- * With tons of help, in 2017 and 2024, I hosted the SAMA conference in Detroit, and Troy, MI.
- With tons of help, in 2017 and 2024, I hosted the SAMA conference in Detroit, and Troy MI.
- With guidance and project manager, Sue Majewski both years, SAMA donated a finished large scale work to the ‘Children’s Hospital of Michigan.’
I’m looking forward to sharing my passion with you and all I have learned over the years. - Joan
Cancellation Policy:
- 50% deposit is required to hold your space in the class or workshop.
- Balance due 30 days before class or workshop date.
- Full Refund - 30 days prior to the class or workshop minus a $50 processing fee.
- Full Refund if class or workshop is canceled.
- No Refunds - within 30 days of the class or workshop unless we can fill your space minus a $50 processing fee.
- No Refunds - within 7 days of the class or workshop.