Learn how to make mosaic coasters!

Mosaic Stepping Stone How To video made as part of my role as Teaching Artist with the Keswick Wise and Well Art Program. From my home studio, join me in creating mosaic stepping stones! This is part one of a two part video series.

The process covered in this video is a great to design your mosaic without having to lug around heavy stepping stones until you are ready to adhere the glass. Part 1 of this two-part video series covers cutting glass, design, laying glass, and general mosaic how to.

Materials needed: stepping stone (actuals stepping stone not needed until part two, but you will need to know the size you will be using), cardboard, stained glass (pre-cut or in sheets), clear contact paper, scissors, masking tape, sharpie. If you are cutting sheets of glass you will also need: straight edge, scorer, glass pliers, nippers, goggles, and gloves.

Mosaic Stepping Stone How To video made as part of my role as Keswick Wise and Well Art Program. From my home studio, join me in creating mosaic stepping stones! This is part two of our two-video series. The process covered in this video is how to mix mortar to attached your glass pieces and how to mix grout and apply that grout to your stepping stone once your glass is attached. Happy Creating!!!!!

Recycled Card Decoration how to video made as part of my role as Keswick Wise and Well Art Program. From my home studio, join me in creating recycled card ornaments! These decorations are a family tradition, when I was growing up, I would make with my mom every year out of old Christmas cards. You can use cards from any occasion, postcards or make your own using card stock. All you need are: cards or card stock, scissors, a pencil, something round to trace, glue, tape, and string or ribbon. Please note that if you are using card stock you will also need markers, crayons, or colored pencils.

On June 5, 2011 I ran a workshop at ShortieCon as part of my work with Wide Angle Youth Media. I facilitated a lesson called A Documentary in a Day where students created a documentary in the classroom about something they had expertise or strong opinions on. The lesson requires students to brainstorm a topic, write a script and film a video that will require no editing. Youth Power! is the result. It is about how young people have the power to change the world, why they need to act on this power and examples of how they might do so and it was made in an hour!

Lesson plan coming soon!  For more information about Shortiecon and Wide Angle Youth Media visit:

http://www.shortieawards.org/shortiecon/

http://www.wideanglemedia.org/

I moved to Baltimore in 2007. It was the first time I owned a car. In 2010 I started working with high school students at Wide Angle Youth Media. My students rode multiple buses every day. So we decided that they would teach me how to negotiate Baltimore's public transportation system. We documented the experience in Sarah's First Ride.

In 2009 I was teaching an after school program with the Youth Dreamers. Working with young people in the program I was amazed at their energy and grace. I saw that they had very different ways of doing things than myself, but through our shared activities we began to grow and encourage each other’s best selves.

The idea for this video came out of my students’ love of dance, step and movement. The program had a visual arts emphasis, I was trained in studio arts and that is what I felt most comfortable in, but they had different strengths. We worked to find ways to join these talents and communicate the different ways we expressed ourselves.