Carol Zutski

Iguana - Mosaic, stone, glass, turquoise on wedi with thinset       "IGUANA" Done in reverse method in a class at Perkins Center for the Arts in Collingswood, NJ with Veronica Karios as my instructor. On WEDI board with Thin-set adhesive. Glass, turquoise, stone
 Rocks, Slate, Thin-set, copper wire, copper BB's, Millefiori       "ROCKY ROAD" This piece was started in a Rachel Davies zoom class, Unlocking the Potential of your Mosaic Materials -Amazing life changing workshop! I used slate as my substrate, local rocks from my neighborhood, copper wire, copper coated BB's and one Millefiori. This was my first piece done with rocks and they were mostly cut with a hammer and hardie. This piece was intended to be for practice only for technique, not design, but I really like the way it turned out. This piece was also inspired by a recent Mosaic Arts online class I took with Rachel Sager called "The earth as your shopping cart". One of my favorite on line classes.
Mini Mosaic Trade Card, GOBOARD, glass, Pique Assiette       "TRY" My first mini trade card and also my first Pique Assiette, kinda did it in a rush, because I could not get into my studio and waited till the last minute to make room to get in there and work, it was harder to do than I anticipated but I guess that is because it was my first one and I had a deadline, only had a few hours to make it and I am wearing a boot for a stress fracture in my foot and it was kinda hard to stand for too long. Oh, also my first time using GOBOARD as a substrate, I liked using goboard, really easy to cut, easier to find and more affordable.
Stained Glass, double reverse, GOBOARD,       zoom class with John Sollinger, Rendering Real before Flippin’ Unglued. This is done in a fluid, double reverse method, working face side up, no glue until you flip it, glue it, flip it back. I used thinset as my glue. I am very happy with it and would highly recommend if you get an opportunity to take a class with John, do it!. This is my first project working with values and it was challenging because I did not have all the correct glass, so had to work with what I had.
rocks, broken bottles, bricks, pottery,  pomegranate, GOBOARD, Map       I volunteered to participate in a project for the Overbrook Environmental Education Center, in Phila. Pa, through the Mosaic Society of Phila in the summer of 2022. I went to the site and collected some rocks, broken bottles, bricks, pottery, etc, to use in my project. I took some pictures and fell in love with the pomegranate orchard they have there, and somehow wanted to incorporate that into my project. After 4 months , 2 surgeries, many nights burning the midnight oil and even pushed to finish it for the deadline by staying up 23 hours with no break. It is an outdoor project, 24" X 24" and we were given artist freedom, it just had to be outdoor ready and have a theme about the Overbrook Center, I chose to do a zip code map of the area, I found the original map on their website and when I ran some ideas by the Executive director, he really liked the map idea. So, here it is, my embellished version, ( I added a fish, jumping out of the river, , a deer and trees in the park, I changed the pointer/locator for the center from a red marker to one of their water droplets logos, A POMEGRANATE ORCHARD!!!, the city skyline, which you can see from standing a few blocks from their site on Lancaster ave, I took a picture and used that as my pattern, I was running out of time but really wanted that skyline, so I had to kinda rush it and not put in the detail I wanted, but at least I got it in, and lastly, I added a flower garden, which is representational of their garden, with the same flowers but as a bonus, that is where I added the trash I found on their site, , including, stone from an old quarry that many years ago, once operated on the same grounds , broken bottles, broken brick, pottery, etc.