MSoP Mini-Meeting featuring Laurel True

Our March meeting will be short, sweet, and casual. A later start and only 1½ hours long but still packed with lots of fun and information. As always, we will have updates on MSoP happenings and multiple opportunities to interact and chat with other meeting participants. For this meeting we will introduce "Show and Tell". Share your work-in-progress with other members and talk about your inspiration, techniques and tesserae. Sharing can be done either through your screen share of your photo or by pointing your camera at your actual project. Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Laurel True. Laurel will be speaking with us about where her creative journey is leading and how mindfulness, meaning and metaphor act as guiding principle in both her teaching and studio practice. A question and answer session with Laurel will be part of her visit with us. Laurel True divides her time between private and public commissions by teaching in various parts of the world. Her energy is contagious, and her quest for experimentation and knowledge confirm her identity as a perpetual student." -- JoAnn Loctov, Author, Mosaic Art and Style: Designs for Living Environments Laurel combines glass, ceramic, mirror, and salvaged building materials from the urban landscape to create site-specific installations, murals and sculptural forms. Over the past 28 years, she has designed, created and facilitated hundreds of projects for hospitals, parks, commercial, residential and public spaces across the globe. As a co-founder of the Institute of Mosaic Art in Oakland, California and Founding Director of The Global Mosaic Project, she worked extensively with communities to facilitate art projects that communicate and celebrate historical, cultural and social justice issues relevant to local participants and residents. Additionally, Laurel has partnered extensively with public health organization Partners In Health, working with communities to create artwork for hospitals and clinics in Central Haiti. She serves as Director of the Mosaic Program at Art Creation Foundation For Children, in Jacmel, Haiti, teaching and mentoring youth in mosaic mural making, architectural mosaics and entrepreneurial skills.