{"id":18597,"date":"2014-07-17T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T07:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=18597"},"modified":"2014-07-17T00:01:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T07:01:17","slug":"institute-of-mosaic-art-a-berkeley-spin-on-an-ancient-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/institute-of-mosaic-art-a-berkeley-spin-on-an-ancient-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Institute of Mosaic Art — A Berkeley Spin on an Ancient Art"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The bundt cake is inedible — it’s a mosaic. The cookies, on the other hand, seem to be the real thing. At the Institute of Mosaic Art, Berkeley. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

The Institute of Mosaic Art left its creative mark on facades all over Oakland’s Jingletown neighborhood before moving last year to Berkeley, where its owners hope the studio and its artists will get more public exposure.<\/p>\n

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“Gazing Cocoon,” by Wilma Wyss<\/a>. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mosaic artist Laurel True<\/a> founded the Institute of Mosaic Art in 2005\u00a0 in a sprawling industrial building in Jingletown, an historic neighborhood located near the Oakland Estuary between the Park Street and Fruitvale bridges. When True moved to New Orleans a few years ago, the institute changed hands. It’s now owned by the mother-daughter team Ilse Cordoni and Sophia Cordoni, who foster the milleniums-old craft<\/a> at their studio on Allston Way.<\/p>\n

It won’t be as easy for IMA to leave its mark on the walls of its new neighborhood, Ilse Cordoni told me during a recent visit to the studio; in Berkeley there will be more bureaucratic hoops to jump through.<\/p>\n

Still, there was plenty to see inside the studio — mosaic lemons, mosaic limes, a mosaic bird, and a mosaic bundt cake alongside what seemed to be a plate of actual cookies. Aside from the cookies, much of the handiwork on display was for sale. The public is invited to stop by IMA and take a look.<\/p>\n

More about the arts and crafts of San Francisco’s East Bay at\u00a0“Amazing Places — A Walk Around Oakland’s Jingletown”<\/a>\u00a0 and\u00a0 “Amazing Clay”<\/a>\u00a0 and “Oakland’s Jingletown — Arts, Crafts and Cool Kitsch.”<\/a>
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Courtyard of the former IMA site, now Jingletown Art Studios. Mosaic mural by Philadelphia artist Isaiah Zagar<\/a>. Clutter compliments of JAS artists. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The workroom of the Institute of Mosaic Art’s new Berkeley studio, with open garage door and mosaic by Laurel True’s 2013 summer mural class. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“Holy Cow” by Marcy Schaff, $155, embodies the whimsy I enjoy in so many Berkeley artists. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I couldn’t find a signature or price on this elegant bird mosaic — a work in progress? Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Four<\/a>
Kim Larson<\/a>, $200 each.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Green<\/a>
“Elipse” by Jill Stevenson Ritter, 2013. Photos by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A building in the Jingletown district of Oakland, CA, is covered with pastel tesserae and mirrors depicting animals and people. it’s by Isaiah Zagar<\/a>. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"detail<\/a>
Detail of Zagar’s mosaic facade. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Allston<\/a>
Allston Way entrance to the Institute of Mosaic Art. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Institute of Mosaic Art left its creative mark on facades all over Oakland’s Jingletown neighborhood before moving last year to Berkeley. Visitors are welcome to stop by, and on a recent afternoon there was plenty to see: mosaic lemons, mosaic limes, a mosaic bird — and a mosaic bundt cake. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[653,1214,34,1273,1248,1274,1249,1275,1250,1276,1251,1270,814,1096],"class_list":["post-18597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-arts-and-crafts","tag-berkeley","tag-dont-miss","tag-ilse-cordoni","tag-institute-of-mosaic-art","tag-isaiah-zagar","tag-jingletown","tag-laurel-true","tag-mosaics","tag-murals","tag-oakland","tag-public-art","tag-shopping-stories","tag-street-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}