Face Mosaic with blue face and tea cup eyes by Sherry Tobin
Bird-shaped mosaic with a yellow tile body and blue tile wings
A ceramic mosaic face with daisies on the cheeks
Bird-shaped mosaic with teal tiled body and green tiled wings
A pair of whimsical pots with faces created using ceramic mosaic. Succulent plants are growing like hair from the tops.

Mixed Media Mosaic with Sherry Tobin

Add some whimsy to your home or garden with a face pot. In this workshop you will turn an ordinary terracotta pot into an eye-catching creature with a colorful personality using coffee cups and plates. No experience is needed, just a desire for creative fun! I will demonstrate how I cut and shape pieces. You will learn how to prepare the pot for mosaic, how to use the right tools, the best adhesives, and proper grout.  Come join in for some mosaic art therapy and take home a unique pot for your home or garden.

Extra Add On: For those that like to do a bit more, an additional two-dimensional bird mosaic project will be available.  

Student supply list

Required:

  • Face Pot Kit (provided by teacher – $36 fee)
  • Safety goggles

Optional:

  • Bird Kit (provided by teacher – $14 fee)
  • Apron to protect your clothes
  • Feel free to bring bits and pieces of your own pottery, china and jewelry to add to your piece

Sherry Tobin

Mixed media mosaic artist Sherry Tobin

Bay Area Artist Sherry Tobin Haney is a mixed media mosaic artist who loves to incorporate non-traditional items into her creations. She began creating mosaics over 25 years ago as a form of coping with her day job at the Postal Service. For the last 10 years she has been a part of the art collective at Mare Island Art Studios on Mare Island in Vallejo California.  

Sherry finds art to be the best form of therapy. What could be better than taking broken and discarded things and giving them a new life by making art?  Some of the things she likes to use are salt and pepper shakers, plates, cups, metal platters, jello molds, and cabinet knobs. She finds it to be a satisfying challenge to spot the right discards for a new unique piece. She often finds pieces of broken china that people have left at her studio door. Her happy place is when she can elevate broken things to creations of joy and whimsy.

Instagram: @ladybugdriver

You can see Sherry Interviewed on NBC by Garvin Thomas of Bay Area Proud here: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/vallejo-woman-comes-up-with-unique-artistic-way-to-help-neighbors-recover-treasures-lost-in-napa-earthquake/1979088/

Vallejo Time Hearld Newpaper Article from Sherry’s 2023 Art Show https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2023/07/31/sherry-tobin-haney-wants-to-be-silly/

Sherry’s Public Art sculpture on the Vallejo Art and Architecture Walk https://vallejoartandarchitecture.com/2015/09/01/tobin/