https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra en-us 2022-04-29 02:08:21 UTC 2025-09-29 21:37:28 UTC hello@padlet.com livingstonealma https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163620560 2022-04-29 02:09:49 UTC https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163620560 livingstonealma https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163621051 2022-04-29 02:10:15 UTC https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163621051 livingstonealma https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163621458 2022-04-29 02:10:40 UTC https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163621458 livingstonealma https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163622486 2022-04-29 02:11:29 UTC https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163622486 livingstonealma https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163622988 2022-04-29 02:11:54 UTC https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163622988 livingstonealma https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163785775 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.]]> 2022-04-29 05:00:53 UTC https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163785775 livingstonealma https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163883353 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.  ]]> 2022-04-29 06:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163883353 livingstonealma https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163915203 Cutting strips of clay for grasses, lines and narrow forms in the mosaic.]]> 2022-04-29 07:27:24 UTC https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163915203 livingstonealma https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163917081 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.]]> 2022-04-29 07:29:27 UTC https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163917081 livingstonealma https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163919814 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!  ]]> 2022-04-29 07:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163919814 livingstonealma https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163924250 2022-04-29 07:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2163924250 livingstonealma https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2166299766 2022-05-02 04:49:47 UTC https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2166299766 livingstonealma https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2166300262 2022-05-02 04:50:33 UTC https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2166300262 livingstonealma https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2166300675 2022-05-02 04:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2166300675 livingstonealma https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2166301011 2022-05-02 04:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/livingstonealma/eiqzv26c9w17wqra/wish/2166301011