Historical February 1997 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
On Saturday, January 11, friends of the West End Arts Council’s TileLink project gathered downtown to help push it closer to completion. Neighbor Bill Christman lent his “Museum of Mirth, Mystery and Mayhem” space in the International Arts Building for a day of tile glazing. Again the bitter cold was overcome as participants layered on the winter warmies and gathered to apply glaze to over 275 of the tiles created by area school children and adults for the TileLink project.
This is the second of three phases in the firing, glaze, firing process needed to apply color and weatherproof the nearly 1800 tiles produced.
Each tile is being “painted” by hand with glaze colors for the project: mostly royal blue and bright yellow, with accents of white, orange, red, and black.
When the spring warmth returns, the tiles will create a border along the sidewalk between the Delmar parking lot and the platform.
The “sill” on which the tiles will be installed is already in place and visible on the edges of the new sidewalk. Concrete benches will also be added that will have tile-decorated surfaces. Makes you that much more anxious for the end of winter, doesn’t it????
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, February 1997.
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