Picassiette for cats
A workshop in Picassiette, a type of mosaics, will be held this Saturday, June 24, from 9 a.m until 4 p.m. at Mullany Art Studios in Flint Hill to benefit RappCats. And yes, Candace Clough, the well-known mosaics artist, will be teaching the workshop.
Clough’s most recent large-scale piece entitled The Cat Couch is displayed in front of the Rappahannock News’ office on Main Street in Washington. In fact, if you’ve yet to sit on the Cat Couch it has become a tourist attraction and photo-op favorite alike.
Pique assiette, or picassiette, is French for “stolen from plate.” The workshop will use all types of broken china, pottery, glass figurines, and more to create a themed piece of art.
Materials will be available for attendees to use or you can bring your own.
The workshop fee is $75 if you would like to create your own theme and keep your finished artwork. If you would like to come and learn Picassiette and use one of RappCats’ rescue cats currently available for adoption as a model and donate your finished piece to RappCats — the workshop is offered for $25.
If you choose the latter option, your artwork will be given to the person who adopts that cat in the future as a keepsake. Contact Mullany Art Studios at mullanyart@gmail.com or 540.878.3687 to register.