This episode features an artist who is an intrepid explorer and passionate engineer of storytelling. She is deeply intrigued by the dualities inherent in the human condition and her body of mixed media and mosaic work is the result of a committed studio practice that keeps her in a constant state of discovery, New York-based artist, Karen Kettering Dimit.
Karen is the Co-Founder of the LIC Arts Open, a Senior Arts member of the St. Botolph Club, and a member the Society of American Mosaic Artists, LIC Artists. She was also the Chair of Sculpture at the Pen and Brush, NYC. Ms. Dimit has shown widely throughout the U.S., both in solo and group exhibitions. Most recently, she was juried into the 2018 Mosaic Arts International, winning the Contemporary Innovation Award. Other recent events: she was invited to show work in the 10th anniversary celebration of The Gallery at Penn College (where she showed a significant body of work in 2014), juried once again into the competitive exhibition of Mosaic Arts International 2016, held this year at the Women's History Museum in San Diego, and was invited to participate in a small group show featuring strong women at Gold Coast Art Center. Her “Medusa” won the “Best in Show” award in SAMA's juried member exhibition in Chicago, 2006; and “Miss Willendorf 2008” won “First Place” in the Pen and Brush 62ndAnnual Sculpture Exhibition in NY. Ms. Dimit lives in Manhattan and maintains a studio in Queens (LIC). She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Compleat Sculptor in New York, and Orsoni Mosaics in Venice, Italy. Ms. Dimit has also curated a number of well-received shows, most recently UPSTANDERS!!!, as show of 23 artists who channel their activism into their art practice. Her ingenuity was just recognized by the Mosaic Arts International 2018 Fine Art segment Jurors with the 2018 Contemporary Innovation award. https://kkdimit.com
https://americanmosaics.org/behind-the-mosaic-podcast-episode-6-karen-kettering-dimit/
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This episode features an artist who is an intrepid explorer and passionate engineer of storytelling. She is deeply intrigued by the dualities inherent in the human condition and her body of mixed media and mosaic work is the result of a committed studio practice that keeps her in a constant state of discovery, New York-based artist, Karen Kettering Dimit.
Karen is the Co-Founder of the LIC Arts Open, a Senior Arts member of the St. Botolph Club, and a member the Society of American Mosaic Artists, LIC Artists. She was also the Chair of Sculpture at the Pen and Brush, NYC. Ms. Dimit has shown widely throughout the U.S., both in solo and group exhibitions. Most recently, she was juried into the 2018 Mosaic Arts International, winning the Contemporary Innovation Award. Other recent events: she was invited to show work in the 10th anniversary celebration of The Gallery at Penn College (where she showed a significant body of work in 2014), juried once again into the competitive exhibition of Mosaic Arts International 2016, held this year at the Women's History Museum in San Diego, and was invited to participate in a small group show featuring strong women at Gold Coast Art Center. Her “Medusa” won the “Best in Show” award in SAMA's juried member exhibition in Chicago, 2006; and “Miss Willendorf 2008” won “First Place” in the Pen and Brush 62ndAnnual Sculpture Exhibition in NY. Ms. Dimit lives in Manhattan and maintains a studio in Queens (LIC). She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Compleat Sculptor in New York, and Orsoni Mosaics in Venice, Italy. Ms. Dimit has also curated a number of well-received shows, most recently UPSTANDERS!!!, as show of 23 artists who channel their activism into their art practice. Her ingenuity was just recognized by the Mosaic Arts International 2018 Fine Art segment Jurors with the 2018 Contemporary Innovation award. https://kkdimit.com
https://americanmosaics.org/behind-the-mosaic-podcast-episode-6-karen-kettering-dimit/
Episode 4 continues our exploration of mosaic as a healing art, with an artist whose passions for color, pattern, and travel have fueled a prolific career of mosaic making, community engagement, and public art. Today I chat with New Orlean’s based Artist, Laurel True.
Laurel True is an artist and educator specializing in creative placemaking. Over the past 25 years, she has designed, created and facilitated hundreds of projects for hospitals, parks, commercial, residential and public spaces in the US, Haiti, Africa, Europe, Turkey and Latin America.
In addition to running a professional production studio, True is the Founding Director of The Global Mosaic Project, which provides art education and entrepreneurial training to underserved communities in urban and developing areas.
True co-founded the Institute of Mosaic Art in Oakland, California, a pioneering mosaic education, and resource center, and continues to foster education in the mosaic arts through teaching and lecturing around the world. truemosaics.com
For accompanying images and references, visit: https://americanmosaics.org/behind-the-mosaic-episode-4-laurel-true
Behind the Mosaic
This episode features an artist who is an intrepid explorer and passionate engineer of storytelling. She is deeply intrigued by the dualities inherent in the human condition and her body of mixed media and mosaic work is the result of a committed studio practice that keeps her in a constant state of discovery, New York-based artist, Karen Kettering Dimit.
Karen is the Co-Founder of the LIC Arts Open, a Senior Arts member of the St. Botolph Club, and a member the Society of American Mosaic Artists, LIC Artists. She was also the Chair of Sculpture at the Pen and Brush, NYC. Ms. Dimit has shown widely throughout the U.S., both in solo and group exhibitions. Most recently, she was juried into the 2018 Mosaic Arts International, winning the Contemporary Innovation Award. Other recent events: she was invited to show work in the 10th anniversary celebration of The Gallery at Penn College (where she showed a significant body of work in 2014), juried once again into the competitive exhibition of Mosaic Arts International 2016, held this year at the Women's History Museum in San Diego, and was invited to participate in a small group show featuring strong women at Gold Coast Art Center. Her “Medusa” won the “Best in Show” award in SAMA's juried member exhibition in Chicago, 2006; and “Miss Willendorf 2008” won “First Place” in the Pen and Brush 62ndAnnual Sculpture Exhibition in NY. Ms. Dimit lives in Manhattan and maintains a studio in Queens (LIC). She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Compleat Sculptor in New York, and Orsoni Mosaics in Venice, Italy. Ms. Dimit has also curated a number of well-received shows, most recently UPSTANDERS!!!, as show of 23 artists who channel their activism into their art practice. Her ingenuity was just recognized by the Mosaic Arts International 2018 Fine Art segment Jurors with the 2018 Contemporary Innovation award. https://kkdimit.com
https://americanmosaics.org/behind-the-mosaic-podcast-episode-6-karen-kettering-dimit/
