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It began with a Pasadena Educational Foundation Grant . . .

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It began with a Pasadena Educational Foundation Grant . . .

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for the two large kilns (7 years ago) and then, in 2021, a grant for the school-wide mosaics project, "A Wish, a Seed, a Plant, a Tree, a Life".  Then in Spring 2022, we were able to hire Leigh Adams, a master mosaics artist, to come train us.  But wait, this actually goes back several DECADES.  Leigh had taught art at Norma Coombs Elementary School in the 1990s, when her sons attended "Altadena Alternative School" as it was then called.  She was hired by Norma Coombs personally and holds so much of the history and original vision of this school.

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Mock-up/Sample mosaic (still to fill and grout)

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Mock-up/Sample mosaic (still to fill and grout)

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Sample Pieces . . . already taking a mosaic form!

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Sample Pieces . . . already taking a mosaic form!

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One of Ms. Alma's passions is creating glazes (ceramic "paint") out of raw materials. Here, all but one of the glazes has been made in-house.

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Former NCES teacher, current Marshall Fundamental Ceramics and Arts teacher, Daarina Abdus Samad, joined us during Spring Break to make mosaics and share some of her tips . . . and songs for teaching too!

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Cutting strips of clay for grasses, lines and narrow forms in the mosaic.

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In this photo Alma and Leigh are joined by Therese Richau, Native American herbalist, and Daarina Abdus Samad -- ceramics teacher at Marshall Fundamental, whom Leigh taught mosaics art almost 10 years ago.  We are sharing stories about art and life as we cut and glaze the pieces that will be part of our mosaic.