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Shards 'n Snippets Fall 2015
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In San Francisco!
Honoring Millard Sheets: Master of Art & Design . . .
FREE LECTURES & TOURS
on Thursday January 14th 2016
ADVANCED REGISTRATION REQUIRED
(Full Registration is still OPEN!)
(& free parking available at SRMC)
"CREATIVE COLLABORATION"
Honoring Millard Sheets: Master of Art & Design
January 14—prior to Stonework Symposium 2016 in San Francisco, CA
FULL PROGRAM DETAILS
Free to Stone Foundation members, Gualala Arts members,
Tile Heritage Foundation members and invited guests.
(however your MUST REGISTER to attend!)
E-News Fall 2015
Founded in July 1987 Tile Heritage celebrates its 28th anniversary this year. Supporters like YOU... members, major contributors, industry sponsors, generous grantors... everyone... have made possible the continued fulfillment of the Foundation’s mission to Document and Preserve tile history in the U.S., both past and present. THANK YOU!
Here’s What’s Below
Casa Irisada: A Site to Behold
Albert Clay Myers: Inventor
“Can You Help Identify This?”
WACO Art Tile
Heath’s Tile Makes the Room
E-News Fall 2015 Print Version
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ARTISAN TILES FOR SALE
BEAUTIFUL . . . ARTISAN TILES FOR SALE AT THF!
For quite some time the Tile Heritage Foundation has ‘desired to aspire’ to selling lovely collectible contemporary art tiles from member artists as a permanent feature of the THF website. VISIT! This special ‘Tile Store’ page is now a reality and showcased. ART TILES are a wonderful gift to give all year long! Tiles are offered by individual THF member artisans in support of the Tile Heritage Foundation. Selling a specific tile at this site where a percentage of sales support THF is open to all current THF members who make tiles. Email: foundation@tileheritage.org for details on how to participate. We are looking forward to offering a large array of beautiful tiles!
(Shown here: Craven Manor Pottery)
TILE HERITAGE IS SPONSORED! - Click! SEE THEM HERE
THF Tile Industry Sponsors Gallery Links
THF Supporters and Members
Shards 'n Snippets Summer 2015
August 2015… a foray for some R&R
to Penland School of Crafts a wonderful experience!
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Shards 'n Snippets Spring 2015
Silver City Clay Festival - PLAN to be there! details…
Taking place every summer in Silver City, New Mexico, the CLAY Festival
gathers together artists, educators, entrepreneurs, families, youth,
adventurers, and life-long learners to explore clay in its many forms as well
as its impact on our history, present, and future.Silver City, New Mexico.
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E-News Summer 2015
Founded in July 1987 Tile Heritage celebrates its 28th anniversary this year. Supporters like YOU... members, major contributors, industry sponsors, generous grantors... everyone... have made possible the continued fulfillment of the Foundation’s mission to Document and Preserve tile history in the U.S., both past and present. THANK YOU!
Here’s What’s below
Tiling a San Francisco Hillside
More About the Steps
St Petersburg’s YMCA:
A Theater of Tile
Tile Envy
TCNA Provides Advantages
E-News in Print
Tiling a San Francisco Hillside
by Richard Mohr
May 28, 2015 saw the dedication of this grand art tile installation on the stairs at the end of California Street beyond 32nd Avenue in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond district where the street crashes into Lincoln Park just below the Palace of the Legion of Honor. The installation was designed by Éire-born Aileen Barr, who also hand-crafted the installation’s decorated tiles and earlier had completed several other SF tiled staircases. The undecorated tiles are by Fireclay Tile Company and Heath Ceramics, both of San Francisco; Dal-Tile supplied the treads. All the tiles were installed up the staircase’s 52 thirty-foot-wide steps by Riley Doty and Phylece Snyder. The driving force behind the project, ten years in the making, was The Friends of Lincoln Park. The total cost of the project, including extensive restoration work to the original WWI-era concrete stairs, came to half-a-million dollars.
E-News Spring 2015
Founded in July 1987 Tile Heritage celebrates its 27th anniversary this year. Supporters like YOU... members, major contributors, industry sponsors, generous grantors... everyone... have made possible the continued fulfillment of the Foundation’s mission to Document and Preserve tile history in the U.S., both past and present. THANK YOU!
(Our apologies for the quick links to each story being currently out of commission. Click on the ‘Read More’ link (below) to view all of the Spring 2015 E-News postings.)
Muresque in Denver
...and in Oakland
Rhead Frieze Finds New Home
More Hamilton Tiles
A Tile Painting Experience
New Books
Please Participate!
Shards 'n Snippets Winter 2015
The BOOK …. and Exhibition Catalog ….
Available now! 275 pages of pictures and story - $48. plus tax and shipping.
Email:Kirby Brown for purchase details.
Of Cottages and Castles: The Art of California Faience
FEBRUARY 22 – MAY 17, 2015
Crocker Art Museum Sacramento CA … More exhibition details
. . .During the first half of the 20th century, the period we refer to as the ‘Golden Era’ in tile making on the West Coast, few companies excelled in the craft of pottery and tile making as did California Faience. The simplicity of the form coupled with the quality of the glaze came to represent the quintessence of Arts and Crafts ideals. Historian Kirby Brown tells this remarkable story from a grandson’s perspective, with his heart in every illustrative detail.
Joseph Taylor, Tile Heritage Foundation.
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