Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Tile Art for Alpena Community College & Thunder Bay Arts Council

Custom Designed Tile Installation for 

Alpena Community College, Thunder Bay Arts Council

by Sharon Smithem

The full size drawing of the tile mural



 Each tile is slab rolled to size and then each rectangle is imprinted with the design as below.


Then the design gets slip on the lines


Tiles are drying on the racks


All tiles are numbered and the first firing has been done
     


 Glazing




The 36 tiles are glazed

The tiles are then fired once again with the glaze
  










 A newspaper article in the Alpena News about the Installation at the Alpena Community College

The History Industry Sculpture Event September 21 2018