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2008 International Year of Planet Earth, Mosaic Exhibition: 5th May to 28th June

"The Mosaic pieces for this international exhibition are inspired by and commemorate the International Year of Planet Earth. There are 9 broad themes that have been highlighted by Planetearth for the year 2008.......70 artists from around the world have been creating stunning and thought provoking mosaics for the exhibition."

www.opusmosaic.co.uk

Opus Mosaic
Gallery & Mosaic Centre
120 Fore Street,
Exeter,
Devon,
EX4 3JQ
UK
Tel : ++ 44 (0) 1392 496393
Email : opusmosaic@btconnect.com

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The Four Seasons are featured in the forthcoming book, Summer 2008

Mosaic Today by Elaine M Goodwin
pubisher: David Porteous

The Global Shoe Project:

In 1996, Canadian artist Stella Meades exhibited 1001 hand-built, child-sized ceramic shoes. The shoes were unglazed, smoke-blackened, and altered to suggest some of the ways in which children affected by war have suffered.  Based on 1995 UNICEF statistics, each shoe represented 6000 children affected by war in the previous 10 years. In 2006 she sent interested people a shoe and asked them to make something to hold, cover, or contain it that would symbolize an alleviation of the loss or damage the shoe represented. www.globalshoeproject.page.tl/Home.htm

The returned works will be exhibited across Canada, and offered for sale by donation, with proceeds going to projects for children affected by war.

• October 5th - 20th, 2007,  Intersection Art Gallery, Nanaimo, British Columbia.
  
• Febuary 14th - 27th, 2008, The Community Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Victoria, British Columbia.
  
• March 7th - April 26th 2008, Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  www.mennonitechurch.ca/programs/gallery/
• October 30th - November 23rd 2008, Blackberry Gallery, Port Moody Art Centre, Port Moody, British Columbia.
  

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Jan has made an interactive piece for one of Stella Meade's shoes. A wooden box with a ceramic glazed lid contains Stella's shoe which is resting on cottonwool, and surrounded by loose plastic toy limbs; these can be played with and rearranged by the exhibition Curator or visitors.

© Jan O'Highway 2008

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