The Arts of Mosaic and Stone
With Teo Briseno
September 1st - 8thth, 2023
A playful journey accentuating the way space communitcates movement, stillness, and beauty..
Want to spend a week in the joy of creating beauty and defining the flow of a space with stone and colored tile MOSAIC?
In this week long course, learn from Teo Briseno, landscape choreographer of 30 years professional experience. Get your hands and body weight into this playful conversation with age old materials and leave with the skills to start applying what you have learned at your home or in your professional journey. We will start with the basics of materials selection, and design conception and cover all the ways they can be mosaicked for the magic of transforming a space for both energy function and beauty. During the workshop we will be focusing on the theme of water within the Wanosh commons area. This will lead to weaving colored tile and different types of stone into the flagstone floors and both standard as well as curved steps .
What we will cover:
Site observation
Choosing materials and prioritizing purpose
Designing to accentuate movement and stillness
Somatic application
How to level the space you are mosaicking
use of different thickness of materials
Tools of the trade
How to choose, where and when to use mortar and grout
how to color grout
integrating plants
how to apply tile and stone to floors, and both straight and curved steps
How to cut and shape tile and stone with hammer and machine
Typical daily schedule:
7am morning asana (optional)
8am all organic breakfast
9am hands on class
12:30pm all organic lunch & siesta
2pm lecture
3pm hands on class
6:30pm all organic dinner
8pm slide show presentation
Solidarity: $1050
Suggested if you make less than $40k/year or have been affected by systemic inequality
Sustainer: $1400
Suggested if you make more than$100k/a year or just want to be super awesome and support this program
Supporter: $1225
Suggested if you make between $40k and $100k/year
Payment Plans Available by Request
Scholarships and work trades available through application.
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Meet your Teacher
Teo Briseno
To be outside and work on the land and with neutral materials is where Teo
is joyful. His stonework and mosaics have been inspired by nature, and the work of his mentors/ collaborators, such as James Hubbell, Sunray Kelley,
and ancient societies.
He started gardening in 7th grade and practiced permaculture, natural building, ceramics, sculpture, figurative drawing, and the wholistic arts.
Along the way it became clear that they are all related.
Since the early 1990’s , he has focused on wellness as a way of life. The application of natural arts, to him, is a way of wellness…. ..and natural living.
