Mosaics Today: Ancient Art Through a Contemporary Lens

A visit to the Fuller Craft Museum is always a rewarding experience. This July I was keen on seeing the museum’s new mosaic show because I know an artist who is combining encaustic and mosaics. Mosaics Today: Ancient Art Through a Contemporary Lens, features works by artists in the New England Mosaic Society. These artists are really pushing the craft in new and exciting directions. They tackle abstraction, sculpture, nature, realism, and current cultural issues.

A portrait of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, wearing his signature green T-shirt, moved me, as did It’s All Too Much, by Ellen Aiken.



This exciting show is on view until December 4, 2022. Some other shows to visit: Marilyn Pappas: A Retrospective, a show of work by the Weavers’ Guild of Boston, New Museum Acquisitions, and Out of Bounds: The Art of Croquet.
review by Nancy Whitcomb
The Fuller Craft Museum is located at 455 Oak Street in Brockton, MA.
Open Tuesday-Sunday 10-5. https://fullercraft.org
Thanks for sharing this contemporary show on Mosaics! I plan to check out the show soon.
Thanks for this showing of a fascinating exhibition that I probably won’t get to.
Thanks for the reminder to get to Fuller again!
It is great to see this exciting mosaic work through this blog post. Thank you for sharing this interesting show with us Nancy!
Looks like a great show. I saw the Marilyn Pappas show a while ago – wonderful work too.
Thanks for the review of this show. It is fun to see the way artists now are handling this ancient material. Alway love to see the floors from the Roman and Greek period that they still are digging up.
This is wonderful! Thanks Nancy!
Looks like a really interesting exhibit. I’m intrigued by the combination of tiles and wax, a combination of two ancient mediums.