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Smalti Mosaics with Dotti Stone

Smalti Mosaics with Dotti Stone

Thursday, October 16, 2025 (6:00 PM - 8:30 PM) (EDT)

Description


Smalti … regarded for its color, brilliance, and reflective qualities, is often favored for creating mosaics. Produced from molten glass, it is colored with metal oxides into a palette of hundreds of shades of different colors in its standard opaque form as well as transparent and gold smalti.
A Power Point for students will show how this vibrant glass is made, include some history, and show work by different mosaic artists. Learn how to use the traditional hammer and hardie and modern wheeled cutters for cutting and shaping, then create your own special smalti mosaic. Smalti goes beyond traditional mosaics seen in cathedrals synagogues, and mosques to contemporary works in which it is integrated with slate, marble, and precious stones.


INSTRUCTOR BIO:

Stone took up mosaics in the early 2000s while in Northern VA. She open a studio at Bower Center for the Arts in 2009 after leaving the DC area. Stone creates fine art panels and sculptural works, exhibits her work, and teaches mosaics classes at Bower Center.

In 2015 she and several other mosaic artists formed BRMA, Blue Ridge Mosaic Artists. The group meets bimonthly, exhibits mosaics, and periodically works on community mosaic projects.

“Most rewarding is seeing what my students create, their excitement over the diverse materials, learning different techniques and their applications, and developing an appreciation for mosaics."


PROMO CODE:

BRMA for 20% off tuition (for past students and active members of Blue Ridge Mosaic Artists


CANCELLATION POLICY:

  • Cancellations made 1 week or more in advance of the class date will receive a 100% refund. Cancellations made within 3 - 6 days will receive a 50% refund. Cancellations made within 48 hours to the class will not be refunded.
    • Students will have the option to transfer registration to another class in place of receiving a refund.
    • Special consideration will be given to cancellations due to health-related issues and family emergencies.
  • If you plan miss a session of class, please inform your instructor, or email our Program Coordinator, Lauren Hood, at L.hood@bowercenter.org
    • There will be no refunds or discounts given for missed classes.
Pricing

$200 registration fee

$50 supply fee due to instructor on first day of class (check or cash only)

Bower Center for the Arts
305 N. BRIDGE STREET
Bedford, VA 24523 United States
Class is located in the downstairs classroom
Event Contact
Dotti Stone
540-586-4235
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Thursday, October 16, 2025 (6:00 PM - 8:30 PM) (EDT)
Thursdays, September 18 - November 6 6pm - 8:30pm
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