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Handmade Tile Association
guide to Handmade tile and mosaic artists
2015 Directory
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Handmade Tile Association, llc
Welcome to the Handmade Tile Association’s 16th Annual
Directory.
Mission Statement
“The Handmade Tile Association is a union of independent
artisans who design and create tile and artwork
incorporating tile. The goals of this group are to nurture
and inspire each member’s unique talents and creativity,
and to trade knowledge, techniques and skills to improve
excellence and innovation in design, production and
distribution of tile. The Association also works to broaden
awareness of tiles as a medium with limitless applications,
and provides a common entry point for consumers to
access a wide array of artisan-made tiles.”
Discover American Art Tile
The Handmade Tile Association, LLC would
like to thank our Structure Sponsor:
BOARD MEMBERS
Josh Blanc, President
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DIRECTORY PRODUCTION
Handmade Tile Association, Publisher
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CONTACT INFORMATION
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Minneapolis, MN 55413
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First Edition. All original artwork is copyright of the artists.
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table of Contents
Mission Statement
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Letter from the President
by Josh Blanc
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Member Support
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Tile Artists’ Index
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Making the Case!
Document and Manage Your Life’s Work Your Art!
by Sheila A. Menzies
Tile Heritage Foundation 12
Calendar
Tile Artists
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15–25
Art in Architecture... An Architect’s
Perspective
by Joseph A. Taylor
Tile Heritage Foundation
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Two Handmade Murals
by Michael Padwee
Tiles in New York Blogspot 29
Tile Resources
Tile Heritage Foundation
Digitized Photo Library
With special thanks to photographer
Robert A. Flischel .
About the Cover
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How to Plan Your Bathroom Tile
by Josh Blanc and Carrie Carlson
Clay Squared to Infinity
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Tile Setters 34
The wall fountain pictured is located at
Heberle Elementary School in Cincinnati,
Ohio and dates to 1929. Assumed by
most to be a product of the local
Rookwood Pottery, the fountain and its
surrounding tiles were in fact produced
by Batchelder-Wilson in Los Angeles. The
school was named to honor Joseph
Heberle, a German-born immigrant who,
with little formal education himself,
championed the cause for providing
free textbooks to all children attending
Cincinnati public schools. After the
closing of the school in 2008, the building
was auctioned off in November of 2012
and today awaits demolition. Will this
historically significant fountain be saved
from the wrecking ball?
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Letter from the president
Mid-century pink, green and yellow tiles in the 1930s were
arguably America’s first distinctive tile style. For many,
the Mid-century look is either a “love it or loathe it” reaction. Until this period every other tile concept and style was
derived and copied from the Old World’s design ideas and
sensibilities.
Over the past 30 years handmade tile has started to
create a new emerging style and language that is becoming
America’s second distinctive period. Our artists’ sheer
creativity and experimentation is leading the world in new ideas, in innovations,
in techniques and even in applications. New tools such as photograpic transfers,
decals, computer-aided design, and computerized kilns are becoming common. In
spite of all this new technology, handmade tile artists have not sought to use these
tools to make objects faster or cheaper. A craftsperson mentality, born from inspirational ideas and an inventors’ mindset, where design comes first, over finance.
Ingenuity comes to the forefront, allowing artists to
create exciting new work as well as recreating top quality historic reproductions.
For this reason, I believe this thirty year period will be studied and highlighted for
generations to come.
Josh Blanc
President
Looking for
tile and mosaic classes?
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hta member support
Super Friends
American Restoration Tile, Artisan Tile Northwest,
Barbara Skan, Bloomington Art Center, Christine
Nelson Design, Clay Squared to Infinity, Continental
Clay, Corazzo Tile, Edina Art Center, Euro Marble
and Tile, Friends of Terra Cotta, Hohn & Hohn, Inc,
Jeanie Daves Pottery, Kelly Schwanitz, La Alameda
Press, Lea-Way Designs, LLC, Margo Ashmore,
Mercury Mosaics, Moravian Pottery and Tile Works,
NKBA MN Chapter, North Prairie Tile, Inc, Northern
Clay Center, Orton Tofte, Pebble Tile Shop, Pewabic,
Rookwood Pottery, Society of Mosaic Artists, Secoin
Building Material Corporation, Sharon Tuthill, Silver
City Clay Festival, Sligo Creek Tile, SoMi Tileworks,
Tile Council of North America, Tile Heritage
Foundation, Tileometry, Timeless Tiles, Twin Cities
Bungalow Club, Untapped Resource, Inc, Weaver
Tile, Whistling Frog Tile Company
Business
Alma Artisan, Barbara Schmidt, Belvedere Art
Tile, Ltd, Bon Ton Designs, Bonnie Fercho, Bosetti
Art Tile, Bread & Roses Remodeling, Carol Lake,
Ceramic Chinn, Claudia Riedener, Dean Tile, Deb
LeAir, Earth Wood and Fire, Edie Karras Arts,
Elfstone Studio, Eloise Oviatt, Fay Jones Day,
Forbush ARTiques, Foster Willey, Fusion Tile, Inc,
Gary L. Quirk, Gooseneck Designs, Hot Flashes,
House on the Hill, Janeway Studio, Kerber Tile,
Louise Campbell, Minnesota Mosaic Guild, Mosaic
on a Stick, LLC, Motawi Tileworks, Native Tile
& Ceramics, One Acre Ceramics, Piping Cat
Studio, Potek Glass, Sheryl Tuorila, Sight Line
Tile, SJ Studios, LLC, Status Ceramics, Stephanie
Kaczrowski, Stephanie Osser, Sticky Earth Studio,
Stone Hollow Tile, Syzygy Tileworks, Terra Fina Clay
Studio, Theresa Mustafa Tileworks, LLC, Tile Fusion,
Tile Restoration Center, Tina Schowalter, Wickwire
Clay Works, Woodland Stoves & Fireplaces
Friends
Adriane Walzer, Chris Madsen, Debra Kress,
Joanne Sher, Kathy Manzella, Linden Hills Pottery,
Nancy Saathoff, Tesserae, Tiles From Away
Special Thanks
To the many artists, businesses, galleries,
individuals, museums, organizations and families
who helped with this directory.
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Tile Artists by page
La Alameda Press / Cirrelda Snider-Bryan
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Mercury Mosaics & Tile, Inc /
Mercedes Austin
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Bevedere Art Tile, LTD / Susan Martin Serra 16
Native Tile & Ceramics / Diana Mausser
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Bon Ton Designs, LLC / Mary Anderson 16
North Prairie Tileworks, Inc / Roger Mayland 22
Bosetti Art Tile / Marina Bosetti
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Sight Line Tile / Amy Baur & Brian Boldon
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Ceramic Chinn / Alex Chinn
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SoMi Tileworks / Kirsten Walstead 23
Clay Squared to Infinity / Josh Blanc
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Stephanie Kaczrowski
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Deb LeAir Ceramics
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Stone Hollow Tile / Wendy Penta
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Drumboden Tiles / Lecy Campbell
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Syzygy Tile / Lee Gruber
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Foster Willey
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Tile Restoration Center / Steve Moon
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House on the Hill Studio / Martha Coursey
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Weaver Tile / Scott Weaver
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B.A. Schmidt Arts & Enterprises, Inc /
Barbara Schmidt
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Bantam Tileworks / Darin Ronning
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m a k i n g th e c a s e !
Document and manage your life’s work - your art!
by Sheila A. Menzies
Tile Heritage Foundation
Tiles by Solon & Schemmel, San Jose, California, circa 1920-30s
Here at Tile Heritage we have spent over a quarter of a century painstakingly researching and archiving the
history of tile makers and tile making in America. There are well over a thousand files containing more than
40,000 documents gathered over the years by ourselves and others who are dedicated to the preservation
of tile history.
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The archives also contain over eight hundred files, some more developed than others, of contemporary tile
makers, architectural ceramists and mosaic artists, people who have sent us materials about themselves
and their work to be held for posterity. We know of many hundreds more artisans who are ‘out there.’ Are
you one of them?
Our focus and dedication is to encourage you, the artist, to document, protect and keep safe information
and photography of your day-to-day life and work. Keep files of your drawings, notes about your clay bodies,
records of your glaze formulas and firing observations as well as images of your finished work, exhibitions
and installations, whenever possible. Mark your tiles and sign your murals, have a recording and dating
system for your production, small or large. Insure your premises, keep business records, resource records,
tax records and a will. File your documents digitally on the ‘cloud’ if possible or the old-fashioned way, in a
fireproof safe. Safe-keep your creative life for posterity!
What are the benefits to you? In the face of unexpected disasters such as fires, floods, hurricanes and
earthquakes when you may be left without a building or inventory of any kind, you will be better prepared to
start again. Most importantly, to keep your life work alive beyond your years, a clear path for the
management of your ‘estate’ can help, avoiding loss through ignorance or the best intentions of well
meaning executors left to handle your personal effects without your direction.
Things you can do to manage the process: Visit the CERF (Craft Emergency Relief Fund) website. Purchase
the Studio Protector® The Artist’s Guide to Emergencies at http://studioprotector.org/Store.aspx. Another
option is to decide to create a presence for yourself and studio in the Tile Heritage archives. There is no
charge to maintain and add to a file at THF. However, the best idea of all is to join Tile Heritage, if you are
not a member. Become a member and be part an important movement further validating your own art and
supporting the archiving of tile history in America! Visit www.tileheritage.org
Read more articles on handmade tile at handmadetileassociation.org
2014 Calendar
calendar of
National Tile Events
February 20 - 22
The Grove Park Inn Arts & Crafts
Conference
Asheville, North Carolina
arts-craftsconference.com
March 10 - 15
2015 AMERICAN MOSAIC
SUMMIT
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
americanmosaics.org
April 14 - 17
Coverings
Orlando, Florida
coverings.com
April 25- 26
Minneapolis/St. Paul Home Tour
Minneapolis/St. Paul Minnesota
MSPHomeTour.com
May 15 -17
Art A Whirl
Minneapolis, Minnesota
nemaa.org
May 16 - 17
Moravian Tile Festival
Doyslestown, Pennsylvania
buckscounty.org/visitors
July 29 - August 2
Silver City Clay Festival
Silver City, New Mexico
clayfestival.com
Important dates and Deadlines
September 1
Start of 2016 Handmade Tile Association Directory
drive. RSVP your place in the 2016 directory.
October 15
Last day to RSVP for 2016 HTA Directory advertising,
to avoid $35 late fee: October 15.
The drop dead advertising deadline for 2016 HTA
Directory: October 31.
November 15 & 16
Proofing party for 2016 HTA Directory.
Communications
Newsletter
The newsletter goes out by e-mail at the beginning of
each month. Please submit news by the 25th to be
considered for the newsletter.
Spotlight on Artists
In the middle of each month, members receive a special
e-newsletter that features two artists from the directory.
The articles explore their newest works and include
active links to learn more.
Social Media
The Handmade Tile Association uses Facebook and
LinkedIn to communicate with members and interested
parties. Please send us your newest images of projects,
interesting tile facts and events so we can promote you
in the world of handmade tile.
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How to use this directory
The Handmade Tile Association Directory is designed to be a source of inspiration when
considering a tile project for your home. Whether you’re planning a kitchen backsplash, bathroom
installation, fireplace surround, or other artistic element, consider your personal style and the year
your house was built. Choosing tiles that complement the historic era of your home adds
authenticity and value.
Peruse books, magazines and websites; visit showrooms and talk to artists; create a folder of your
favorite ideas and work with a designer to bring your project to life.
Many artists and showrooms provide tile samples for a small fee. Pick them up or order them from
a catalog to see how they look in your own environment.
Contact a tile setter to measure the project and order the tile. This step alone will often save you
time and money. Professional installation ensures that your project will last for years to come.
Enjoy your one-of-a-kind tile masterpiece!
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B.A. Schmidt Arts & Enterprises,
Inc. creates unique porcelain tiles
inspired by nature, children’s
illustrations and the Arts & Crafts
movement. Every tile is handcrafted
by Barbara Schmidt The tiles are
also available as gifts in handmade
oak frames. Winner of the 2010
Coverings Select Award for best
Artisan Tile, Barbara also has been
developing tiles for Disney’s new
theme park in Shanghai. Barbara
also does custom tiles.
The pictured tile is based on a Beatrix
Potter illustration.
B.A. Schmidt Arts & Enterprises INC
B.A. Schmidt Arts &
Enterprises, Inc.
Barbara Schmidt
128 Lincolnwood Rd
Highland Park, IL 60035
847-432-5679
Fax: 847-432-6921
[email protected]
baschmidtartstiles.com
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The Bantam Tileworks concept first
came to Darin while visiting the
Metropolitan Museum of Art when
a friend suggested that he put his
nose up close to the glass of a
Louis Comfort Tiffany fountain. Darin
quickly realized how many layers of
color were visible in the glass. It was
something he knew he wanted to try
to replicate in ceramics.
Bantam tileworks
Darin Ronning & Travis Messinger
816 Bantam Road
860-361-9306
bantamtileworks.com
Bantam Tileworks
For over a year he and Travis worked
with up to 8,000 colors, combining
them to create multi-layered depth to
the glaze. Through trial and error they
narrowed the options down to 100 of
the most eye-catching combinations
for the current and ever-evolving
Bantam Tileworks’ palette.
Belvedere art tile, ltd
BELVEDERE ART TILE, LTD
Susan Martin Serra
PO Box 177
Chromo, CO 81128
970-264-0642 or 970-799-2559
[email protected]
belvedereceramicarts.com
Belvedere Art Tile combines many
years of experience and a resolve
for continued artistic growth to
bring innovation and freshness to
their design collection. No project is
too small. Belvedere offers in-house
designs and specializes in complex
custom artworks for clients wishing
to create extraordinary environments
of timeless beauty and artistic
excellence.
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Bon Ton Designs, llc
At Bon Ton we are all about custom
handmade tile. We are inspired by the
environment around us and strive to
incorporate your vision into ceramic
works of art. Owner/Artist Mary
Anderson will work with you to create
your personal vision in tile.
Our focus is on creating the industry’s
most beautiful backsplashes, fireplace
surrounds, bathrooms, murals and
feature walls. Our projects include
both residential and commercial
applications.
We offer traditional and Arts & Crafts
designs, and enjoy pushing the
envelope with a unique and modern
flair.
Bon ton designs, llc
Mary Anderson
1355 Oregon Ave N
Minneapolis, MN 55427
612-270-2533
bontondesigns.com
Showroom by Appointment
facebook.com/BosettiArtTile?ref=hl
Marina uses the ancient technique of
“cuerda seca,” a cloisonné-inspired
method that mimics the look of
mosaic, to create tiles with rich
ceramic glazes and an intriguing,
touchable texture. Her work is inspired
by the Arts & Crafts Movement which
emphasizes simplicity and explores
themes found in nature, as well as
medieval, romantic, and folk styles.
Marina has created tiles for kitchens,
bathrooms, fireplace surrounds,
and wall art, among other works.
She would love to create something
beautiful for you!
Bosetti Art Tile
Bosetti art tile
Marina Bosetti
Raleigh, NC 27603
919-414-8950
BosettiArtTile.com
[email protected]
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Ceramic Chinn makes hand-carved
tiles with images or patterns derived
from nature. Frost-hardy terracotta is
used for all exterior work.
Individual number tiles are made in
three standard sizes using a true Arts
& Crafts font. Custom sizes, colors,
font choices and multi-number plaques
are available.
Kitchen, bathroom and fireplace tile is
made to order with many clay, glaze
and size options. Contact Ceramic
Chinn to discuss your project ideas
and how clay can be part of it.
Ceramic Ch inn
Ceramic Chinn
Alex Chinn
St. Paul, MN 55105
651-699-0271
[email protected]
ceramicchinn.com
facebook.com/pages/
Ceramic-Chinn
Clay Squared to In fin ity
Clay Squared TO INFINITY
Josh Blanc
34 13th Ave NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413
612-781-6409
claysquared.com
Clay Squared specializes in kitchens,
bathrooms, fireplaces and fine art
projects.
Designs: We offer a number of
original hand-carved tiles,“The Cosmic
Collection,” house numbers, shaped
tiles, mosaics and switch plates.
Colors: More than 30 stock colors.
Commercial/Residential Projects:
We can help you design any kitchen,
fireplace or bathroom project. We also
work with commercial clients to design
signs, murals and fine art.
Custom work is always available.
Visit our showroom Monday through
Saturday, 11 am to 5 pm, or order
online at claysquared.com.
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deb LeAir Ceramics
Deb LeAir specializes in brightly
colored, hand-carved tiles for use in
backsplashes, fireplace surrounds,
or any project to enhance your living
space. Botanical, contemporary, or
abstract designs are available.
Framed, ready-to-hang compositions
of art tiles are also available.
These terra cotta tiles are individually
carved and painted with terra sigilatta,
a refined clay slip. A black glaze or
copper wash make the colors pop. All
installations are sealed for durability.
Call or email for a show schedule,
for gallery information or for a studio
appointment.
DEB LEAIR CERAMICS
651-226-5989
[email protected]
debleair.com
facebook.com/DrumbodenTiles
Drumboden Tiles is a small artisan
studio specializing in handcrafted
ceramic relief tile. Each stoneware
tile is a unique piece of functional art.
Custom commissions are welcome
and design services are available. For
more information see our website,
www.drumbodentiles.com, or check us
out on Pinterest and Facebook.
Drum bolden Tiles
drumboden tiles
Lecy Campbell
112 Barberry Road, #28
Johnson City, TN 37604
773-882-1084 cell
[email protected]
drumbodentiles.com
pinterest.com/DrumbodenTiles
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ARCHITECTURAL TERRA COTTA
Foster Willey’s studio specializes in
design and fabrication services for
the built environment. Original works
of art include commissions in bronze,
fabricated metal, pre-cast concrete,
terra cotta, and stone. Please visit
fosterwilley.com for more information.
Foster willey sculptor, llc
612.782.8629
[email protected]
fosterwilley.com
Foster Willey Sculptor, llc
Prairie School Architecture inspired
“Hamline Prairie Station” along the
LRT Green Line, commissioned by
the Metropolitan Council. The Prairie
style, also known as progressive
architecture, is a combination of
geometric and organic forms. The
LRT station provides a modern
context for new designs that are both
original and complementary.
House on th e H ill Stu dio
house on the hill studio
Martha Coursey
3436 Briarcliff Rd NE
Atlanta, GA 30345
404-558-7512
[email protected]
houseonthehillstudio.com
Martha Coursey has been handpainting
ceramic tiles for more than 30 years
for homes, resorts, restaurants and
tile distributor showrooms.
Stock backgrounds: handmade or
commercial grade tile, tumbled marble
or stock you supply. White, beige or
bisque backgrounds: standard or
crackled.
Colors: all designs available in
standard colors or hand painted to
coordinate with your swatches.
Designs: stock designs, modified
stock designs or ceramic murals that
incorporate your personal information.
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On my website are images of the
“Garden Companions” tile series,
illustrations of animals in our yards.
Also available are house numbers,
Chinese New Year and fruit and
flower tiles, organized by category,
La Alameda Press
Hand-rolled slabs are pressed into
handmade “imprint” tiles, which are
then glazed individually. These Cone
5-fired tiles come with or without
screw holes, whichever you need.
La Alameda Press
Cirrelda Snider-Bryan
9636 Guadalupe Tr. NW
Albuquerque, NM 87114
505-897-0285
[email protected]
colorofsand.wordpress.com
etsy.com/shop/Cirrelda
Mercury Mosaics is a group of
handmade tile artisans ready to adorn
your space with our beautiful tile. We
are known not only for our bold colors
and textures, also for our attention
to detail and ability to walk any client
through the tile design process from
start to finish. We do tile work for
both residential and commercial
spaces—everything from kitchen
backsplashes, restaurant walls and
church murals to retail spaces. You
name it and we’ll tile it!
Mercu ry Mosaics
Mercury Mosaics
Located in the Northeast
Minneapolis Arts District
681 17th Ave NE, Suite 160
Minneapolis, MN 55413
612-236-1646
[email protected]
mercurymosaics.com
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All of our glazes are custom made
at Native Tile. We incorporate the
traditional methods of cuerda seca
and various relief techniques to
create our tiles. Although many of our
patterns are drawn from historical
reference, we eagerly integrate
personal inspiration.
Native Tile & Ceramics
Diana Mausser
2317 Border Ave
Torrance, CA 90501
310-533-8684
www.nativetile.com
Native Tile & Ceramics
Creating restoration quality
handmade decorative ceramic tile
in Southern California since 1990.
Specialty applications include: borders
and field patterns for kitchens,
bathrooms, pools and fountains;
craftsman-style fireplace surrounds
and hearths; scenes and rug pattern
murals for floors and walls.
North Prairie Tileworks, In c.
North Prairie Tileworks
Roger L. Mayland
2845 Harriet Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55408
612-871-3421
handmadetile.com
North Prairie Tileworks specializes
in custom tile with an emphasis
on Arts & Crafts designs, historic
reproductions and functional tile
art. We offer over 150 custom
colors, decorative relief tiles,
original and made-to-order designs.
Our field and relief tiles are
found in many homes throughout
the U.S. and Canada on floors,
walls, backsplashes, fireplaces,
bathrooms and as decorative
accents and trims. Our tiles are
also in public facilities such as: Lake
Mead National Park, Cannon Falls
and Pine City libraries, NJ Route 36
bridges, Signet Society at Harvard
and at the American Swedish
Institute’s Nelson Cultural Center.
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Luscious, kiln-formed glass tile in a
variety of hard-to-find colors.
Combining the solid colored field tile
with custom art tile translucency, color
and visual details are like none other in
the residential or commercial market.
sight lin e tile
Vintage buttons, illustrated maps,
dandelions and a ball of string are a
few source materials that influence our
unique line of art tile. Visit our studio
inside the Casket Arts Building and
see what combination best defines the
space around you.
Great for both indoors or out. See what
Sight Line Tile can develop for your
bath, kitchen, or fireplace surround.
sight line tile
Amy Baur & Brian Boldon
681 17th Ave NE, Studio 121
Minneapolis, MN 55413
612-788-9301
[email protected]
sightlinetile.com
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Handmade Tile
Custom handcrafted ceramic tile
made in Minnesota since 1996.
Tile for residential or commercial
projects.
Somi Tileworks
Kirsten Walstead
1500 Jackson St. NE, Studio 185
Minneapolis, MN 55413
612-964-6551
[email protected]
www.somitileworks.com
I specialize in high-relief ceramic tile,
custom tile designs, field tile and
accent tile. My tiles are suitable
for residential and commercial
installations. I can help you create a
custom design for any room. Visit my
website for more information about
studio hours, gallery shows, upcoming
art fairs and events.
somi tileworks
s
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Showroom:
Northrup King Building
1500 Jackson St. NE, Studio #185
Minneapolis, MN 55413
Completion time: 3–4 weeks.
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Stephanie Kaczrowski
7933 Idaho Ave N
Brooklyn Park, MN 55445
763-560-2922
Stephan ie Kaczrowski
Specialty: I buy glazed, commercial
wall and floor tile, then hand-stencil
designs with china paint, before
firing the tile again for durability. The
over-glazes I use have the look of
watercolor.
Designs: Hundreds of stencil designs
are available, including realistic images
of Minnesota fish, birds, animals,
leaves, fruits and flowers. Custom
designs are also available.
Application: My tiles are suitable for
interior walls, floors, counter tops and
backsplashes. They have been used in
showers, fireplace surrounds and as
framed artwork.
Ston e hollow tile
Stone Hollow Tile
Wendy Penta
8532 Edison Street NE
Blaine, MN 55449
763-786-9102
[email protected]
stonehollowtile.com
Wendy Penta’s stoneware tiles are
infused with her love of nature and
the medium in which she creates.
Her original relief designs are
both realistic and stylized, totally
handcrafted and finished with soft
matte glazes. Hand-painted art tiles
are her speciality and reflect years of
mastering various glaze tones. New
are “applied clay” tiles that add 3-D
dimension to one-of-a-kind art tiles.
For a complete catalog of relief
designs, one-of-a-kind tiles and tiles
ready to ship, visit her website.
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Visiting the Moravian Tileworks in
Doylestown, PA, Lee Gruber and David
del Junco remarked, “We can do
this” and returned home to begin the
research and development that led to
Syzygy Tile. The year was 1993.
Today, 20 artisans work together to
produce an exquisite line of handmade
tile. Distinctive, sophisticated and
timeless, Syzygy Tile displays the
passion with which it is designed and
produced.
syzygy Tile
Lovely shapes, mosaics and decoratives
are cut and pressed by hand; the glazes
are carefully applied with a brush.
syzygy tile
106 North Bullard Street
Silver City, NM 88061
575-388-5472
[email protected]
www.syzygytile.com
Tile Restoration Center makes warm,
rustic and historically accurate
reproductions of classic American Arts
& Crafts’ era decorative ceramic tiles.
TRC also creates many new and custom
tiles in the Arts & Crafts mode, as well
as contemporary styles.
Owner Steve Moon’s high-fired
stoneware tiles are most often used to
create fireplaces and fountains that are
the centerpiece of any home.
Tile REstoration Center
tile restoration center
2464 NE Stapleton RD #4
Vancouver, WA 98661
206-633-4866
fax: 206-633-3489
[email protected]
tilerestorationcenter.com
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We produce high-fired stoneware tiles
for interior or exterior applications.
Our glazes are mixed in our studio
and most have a matte or satin matte
finish.
The designs are high-relief and reflect
our love of the natural world.
We produce many fireplace surrounds
and kitchen backsplashes. Custom
designs are also welcome.
Whether you need a gift tile or a home
project, we are happy to help.
Please visit our website at
weavertile.com.
Weaver Tile
weaver tile
Scott Weaver
Horton, MI 49246
517-529-4621
weavertile.com
Resources
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Art in Architecture... an architect’s perspective
by Joseph A. Taylor
Tile Heritage Foundation
Decorative ornament arising out of the clay and
native to it in form and quality is the most natural
opportunity presented to the hand and spirit of the
designer. 1
William Purcell from a conversation with
partner George Elmslie concerning the
Merchants Bank of Winona, Minnesota.
Merchants National Bank, the largest of the bank
buildings designed by Purcell, Feick & Elmslie,
is located at 102 East 3rd Street at Lafayette
in Winona, a town resting profitably on the
Merchants National Bank, Winona, Minnesota.
Mississippi River in southeastern Minnesota. The
Photo by Robert Powers.
town prospered as a center for railroads, steamships, wheat and
lumber, dating from the mid-nineteenth century when first settled
and developed by non-Native Americans, both Yankees and Europeans.
The bank building itself, a sturdy block of brick erected in 1912, reflects the architecture of Louis Sullivan, for
whom both Elmslie and Purcell had previously worked, as well as the Prairie School principles of Frank Lloyd
Wright. The structure resembles a mammoth-sized safe, the perfect place to safely stash one’s fortune.
The ornamental terra cotta decorating the exterior of
the bank was produced by the American Terra Cotta
& Ceramic Co. (1881-1996), sculpted by the masterful hand of Walter Heidel under the direction of
head m odeler Kristian Schneider. The organic, botanical
forms reflecting nature’s bounty enrich the building’s
surfaces while complementing the pervasive art glass
windows. One is immediately drawn in by the pièce de
résistance above the bank’s entrance, a magnificent
tympanum featuring an awesome bird of prey, likely a
bald eagle, America’s national bird, a symbol of authority and strength since Roman times.
The sense of pride engendered by the design and
Detail of tympanum, Merchants National Bank, Winona. subsequent reputation of this financial institution can
also be perceived in the architect’s reflections on the
Photo by Joseph Taylor.
prophetic significance of his own work.
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1 For the exchange of ideas, written and rewritten, 1938 to 1945, by drafts of manuscript between George Elmslie and
William Purcell, see Parabiographies entry for Merchants Bank of Winona at www.organica.org/pejn132_1.htm.
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two handmade murals
by Michael Padwee
tilesinnewyork.blogspot.com
New York City has sponsored a number of community-based
art programs since the 1970s. Some were specifically
designed to create jobs for struggling artists in times of
economic adversity. Others were attempts to engage
communities or segments of communities in artistic
endeavors. In the 1970s/80s
the CETA program (the
Comprehensive Employment and
Training Act Artists’ Project)
This mural includes portraits of the artist, Alan
allowed artists to create public
Samalin, his wife, ceramic artist Joan Shulman,
works of art throughout the
their child and the ceramic artist, Joseph Stallone
country as well as in New York City. (in running shorts) on the Brooklyn Heights
Art works such as the tile murals in Promenade, near the Clark Street Station.
Brooklyn Heights’ Clark Street IRT subway arcade helped spur the
reintegration of art and local transportation that occurred in the subway system in the decades leading up to the present. Three artists--two
painters and a ceramist--were hired by CETA after a citywide competition
to produce a mural. The “1980 adopt-a-station” project sponsored by
the MTA and the Municipal Art Society brought two colorful ceramic tile
murals to the arcade walls of the IRT’s Clark Street subway station. Alan
Samalin
painted a picture of the Heights Promenade showing the ethnic
Top, lef t to right: Alan Samalin
diversity of its visitors. Johan Sellenraad depicted the 1849 Plymouth
using a template to cut the
clay into tile shapes; Johan
Church of the Pilgrims. Joe
Sellenraad selecting glazes.
Stallone was ceramist for both
Botton, L to R: Joe Stallone at
mosaics.
the kiln; Alan drawing. (Photos
courtesy of Joe Stallone)
The murals were completely handmade. Joe Stallone handrolled the clay for the murals and then placed them under
plastic to keep them moist. Each artist used heavy gauge
plastic templates to cut the rolled clay into the tile shapes.
The cut tiles were placed on mural-size wallboards on tables
to dry, which took a total of one month. Finally, Joe bisquefired the tiles in small batches in a kiln in his Greenwich Village
Sellenraad’s Plymouth Church Mural. The
loft/studio. The bisque tiles were laid out again on tables. Alan Johan
first pastor of the Plymouth Church was abolitionist
Samalin and Johan Sellenraad painted the murals on their tile Henry Ward Beecher. The church was involved in the
“canvases” with about 60 glazes purchased from a local hobby Underground Railroad.
shop. The glazed bisque tiles were fired again in the small kiln, then a clear glaze was added, and
the tiles were fired a third time before being installed. The Clark Street murals helped subway riders
recognize what their community was and what it offered. Johan Sellenraad echoed this in an email:
“The experience of the Clark Street project made it possible for me to use tiles as art... The basic idea
was to relate the station to the immediate neighborhood... For [my] image I picked the church [two]
blocks away for its history as a stop in the Underground Railway bringing freed slaves North.” For
more about these murals go to this link:
http://tilesinnewyork.blogspot.com/2013/04/public-art-programs-in-new-york-city.html
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tile resources
CLASSES & workshops
Bloomington Art Center
952-563-8575
Bon Ton Designs 612-270-2533
Edina Art Center
Mercury Mosaics
Media
American Bungalow
888-286-4256
952-903-5780
Arts & Crafts Homes
and the Revival
978-283-4721
612-236-1646
Ceramics Industry
847-763-9534
Mosaic on a Stick, LLC
651-645-6600
Ceramics Monthly
800-342-3594
Northern Clay Center
612-339-8007
Clay Times
540-882-3576
Pewabic
313-822-0954
Houzz
714-913-6286
Sheryl Tuorila Mosaics
612-423-9197
Pottery Making Illustrated
800-340-6532
Tile Heritage E-news
707-431-8453
Tile Magazine
818-224-8035
Galleries
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American Museum of
Ceramic Art
909-865-3146
Bloomington Art Center
952-563-8575
Edina Art Center
952-903-5780
Mosaic on a Stick, LLC
651-645-6600
Northern Clay Center
612-339-8007
Historic tile resources
American Restoration Tile
501-425-2895
Clay Squared to Infinity 612-781-6409
North Prairie Tileworks
612-871-3421
Kitchen & Bath designers
Christine Nelson Design
612-750-7821
NKBA
651-699-1050
Marketing
Trebuchet Communications
612-205-5911
Organizations
American Swedish Institute
612-871-4907
Artisan Tile Northwest
360-331-1295
Ceramic Tile Distributors
Association
800-938-2832
Friends of Terra Cotta
212-932-1750
Handmade Tile Association, LLC 612-781-6409
Minnesota Historical Society
651-296-8071
Minnesota Mosaic Guild
651-645-6600
Moravian Pottery & Tile Works
215-345-6722
National Tile Contractors
Association
601-939-2071
Potters Council
866-721-3322
Society of Mosaic Artists 724-238-3087
Tile Council of North America
864-646-8453
Tile Heritage Foundation
707-431-8453
handmadetileassociation.org
Shows
ATNW Handmade Tile Festival 206-633-4866
Coverings
864-646-8453
Minneapolis-St. Paul Home Tour 612-867-4874
Moravian Pottery & Tile Works 215-348-6098
Silver City Clay Festival
575-538-5560
Tile Books
Friends of Terra Cotta
212-932-1750
Tile Heritage Foundation
707-431-8453
tile product suppliers
Continental Clay
612-331-9332
Mayco Colors
614-675-2018
Minnesota Clay USA
952-884-9101
Want to advertise
in the
Handmade Tile Association
17th Annual Directory?
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Deadline
October, 15 2015
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tile setters
Bread & Roses Remodeling
612-824-5993
Castle Building & Remodeling
612-789-8509
Hohn & Hohn, Inc.
651-224-8877
Kerber Tile, Marble & Stone
952-445-7392
Tile Fusion 952-367-6500
tile showrooms
Clay Squared to Infinity
612-781-6409
North Prairie Tileworks
612-871-3421
Mercury Mosaics
612-236-1646
612-781-6409
Check the website for more details:
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H o w t o p l a n Y o u r BA T H ROOM T ILE
by Josh Blanc and Carrie Carlson
Clay Squared to Infinity
Step 1 Create a vision of your tile project:
There are hundreds of tile designs, colors and concepts for you to choose
from and the process can sometimes feel overwhelming. When creating
your vision of your tile project we recommend looking at books, magazines
and the internet. Your local book stores carry a great selection of magzines and home improvement books. We recommend utilizing the National
Kitchen and Bath Association, Houzz, and the Handmade Tile Association
websites. Bring in clippings of ideas and color schemes you like.
Step 2 Questions to ask yourself:
“What is the style I want to create in this space?” “Do I want to work with
the period of the home, i.e. Bungalow, Arts & Crafts, Victorian, Tudor,
rambler, or contemporary style?” (Working in a period will guide your
decision process and help narrow your choices.) “Am I more eclectic?” “Do
I want to make a piece of art in the space?” (Working with themes and
color ranges will help you stay on task.)
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Step 3 Time lines:
We recommend that you begin planning for your bathroom tile closer
to the beginning of your remodel, before other things are installed
that could limit your tile choices and design. Order time for tile can be
anywhere from 2-8 weeks. You will also want to make sure that your tile
arrives before your tile installer is scheduled, unless you are installing the
tile yourself.
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Step 4 “Do I need a designer or architect for my tile project?”
Designers and architects are people who understand space, design
and color. They typically cost 15% of a project but when you have large
projects their insights and knowledge can save you more than their fees.
Clay Squared
Step 5 Plumbing and other obstacles in the bathroom:
The bathroom is full of switches and electrical outlets. Switches for
lights, for the shower stall and for the exhaust fan generally should be
located close to their use. Outlets are generally located next to the vanity, high on the wall. A good location for many of these is above the tile,
on the painted wall. If you are planning to install a shower with multiple
shower heads and thermostatic controls, understand there are no standards for where these will be installed. You will need to consult with your
plumber as to their location. Then plan your tile design around that.
Step 5 Locations for tile in the bathroom:
In the bathroom there are so many areas recommended for tiling that you’ll understand why 70-80% of a bathroom
is often tiled. All shower and shower/tub surrounds should be tiled, at least 6” above the shower head. Tubs that
have no shower but a surround should still be tiled about 6” above the top of the tub. Tile at least 4” above the sink
basin. As for the toilet, if it is next to a wall or has walls on both sides, we recommend tile all the way around the
toilet, for easier cleaning and maintenance. And last, but certainly not least, tile the bathroom floor.
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