Washington Parks & People : mosaic

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Donors

Below is a list of donors who completed the large task of financing the project. The donors are listed in order of total amount donated.

	Craig Duckworth --Cash $1263, Materials $3360 Craig Duckworth, of Arc Stone II, donated over 100 square feet of expensive tiled granite from around the world. He also provide the cash to purchase 234 feet of vitreous mosaic tiles and cutting tools for the entire workshop!
	DC Commission on Art and Humanities--$4000 The DC Commission on Arts and Humanities awarded Art on the Block with a capital grant in the amount of $4000!
	OEC Engineering --Water Jet Cutting (Value of $3200) JP Muller, owner of OEC Engineering underwrote the water jet cutting fabrication for the stainless steal and granite stars. This computerized $500,000 machine is one of two in the entire tri-state area. The water jet computer and machine combo take up an entire room!
	Custom Building Products--$2200 in installation supplies David Debear is a chemical engineer who started Custom Building Products (which is the main tile installation materials sold in Home Depot!). David donated the installation technical support and 2 tons worth of installation materials (from grouts to epoxies to additives!).
	Washington Parks to People--Cash ($300) Workshop Space (value $1050) Washington Parks to People purchased all the wood materials, including the sign posts and brick installation hardware. They also purchased all the street repair supplies. They provided their Josephine Butler Parks Center for meetings and their Riverside Center for preparation, workshops and installations for three full months.
	Urban Artists Coalition--Storage Space for 8 months (value of $400) and Maintenance Contract ($1000) Total ($1400) Meghan Murphy and Anywhere Suderman, founders of the Urban Artists Coalition, offered us their H street Studios for storage and agreed to maintain the mosaic. This Coalition is a great community arts education group and artist networking resource
	Reginald Pointer--Ceramic Kiln Firings (value of $900) Reginald Pointer, of the Howard University Ceramics Department, donated the kiln time to fire our lettering and picture tiles.
	Sita Tile 2 Pallets of Ceramic Tile (value of $800) An accident in the shop, left Sita Tile (and us!) with 2 entire pallets of broken ceramic tiles! They also helped us with installation recommendations and discounts on odd lots
	Project Blessing for Hurting Parents --Workshop Space (value $720)-Donated workshop space for the project for a 16 week mosaic workshop. This crisis center, founded by Rebecca Stamps is a miraculous and inspiring!
	Kelly Wingo--Mosaic Materials (value of $600) Area fused glass artist, Kelly Wingo, decided that she loved her new art form so much that she wanted to donate her entire collection of mosaic plates-- collected from the entire east coast to the project. She gave us glass beads, stain glass, tin backing, scores of antique plates, cups and glass.
	Alexia Levine --Architectural Drawings (value of $475) The architectural firm of ANCL Architects and the hard work of Matt provide the CAD drawings for the star granite fabrication.
	Martin Kremer --Mosaic Pieces (value of $450) Donated (and shipped from NY (twice)) many boxes of stained glass, cut shells and beautiful agents. What a treasure!
	Kyan Bishop --Pottery ($350) Kyan is a ceramicist who donated an entire car load of ceramics to the project. Most of them were beautiful pots and bowls which she was discarding. The items created the trees around the doorway.
	Ed Burck--Mosaic Materials (value of $200) Ed donated a large amount of fused glass and colorful stained glass. He also directed us to the fused glass website which enabled 4 or five more incredible donations.
	Sea Shell City -2 large bags of shells (value of $150) Virginia Davidson of Sea Shell City donated two enormous bags of fancy shells! These were sent to us all the way from Fenwick Island Deleware!
	Kari Minnick --Mosaic Materials (value of $150) Kari donated many wonderful pieces of fused glass.
	Dal Tile -3 Boxes of small mosaic tiles (value of $80) This company donated large boxes of small outdoor tiles. They have a large selection of porcelain mosaic size tiles. <
	Amy Hightower -75 square feet of mirror (value of $80) Amy donated lots of mirror she couldn't use in her new house!
	Irene Gray -Iridescent tiles (value of $75) Irene donated very unusual blue iridescent tiles which became the centerpeice of the river on the Youth Cafe.
	Martha Fessenden -Large Antique Mirror (value of $50) Martha donated a massive, thick antique mirror. The curved pieces were used on the Riverside Center portion.
	Rich Maltagliati -Rich brought his entire family (Kelly, Tess and Vinney) to help with the mosaic. He also donated Cash for extra grout! ($60)
	Paz-Paz donated lots of interesting things...including Sun ceramics from South America! Thanks for thinking of us!
	Clayworks Supplies-10% off of all ceramic tools (value of $40) Clayworks Supplies donated 10% off of all the ceramic tools for the project. We bought the clay shipment and chemicals from them and they were very helpful with material recommendations and technical support.
	Ward & Gray -1 large box of frost proof tiles (value of $40) Ward & Gray donated nice wood pattern tiles and red floor tiles.
	Marios-12 square feet of frost proof tile (value of $36) Marios donated frost proof tile for the project.
	Elanor Vincent --Installation supplies for grouting (towels, sponges etc.) (value of $25)
	Janet Pypers -shells (value of $20) Beautiful shells.
	Nicole Shivers-12 glass plates (value of $15) Glass plates galore!
	Rachael Storey -6 porcelain plates (value of $12) Racheal of the Urban Ink Film Production company donated lots of purple porcelain plates! Oops!
	Keith Shaljian -7 porcelain plates (value of $7) Keith donated porcelain plates.