The Chicago Mosaic School and GoCM: The Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics, Chicago will be closed for Memorial Day weekend May, 24, 25, 26. Have a fun and safe weekend! (fb)

The Chicago Mosaic School is excited to announce our upcoming Artist in Residence, Nanda Yasoda from Antofagasta, Chile! Nanda develops her work at the intersection of art, territory, and community, using mosaic and ceramics as tools for transformation. Her practice is not driven by ornamentation but by the reconstruction of memory and identity through fragmentation. Each assembled piece serves as a material vestige that redefines space and activates collective narratives. During her Residency at CMS, she will explore mosaic as a language of connection and collective construction, examining its potential to redefine memory and shared spaces. She is currently the Artistic Director of Fundación Recrea, an organization that received the 2024 Avonni Innovation Award in recognition of its impact on transforming peripheral spaces and engaging with communities in vulnerable conditions. Her artistic approach is guided, not by rigid planning, but by an intuitive process in which materiality and gesture create a language of recognition and resistance. This methodology has been central to her work with incarcerated women at the Antofagasta Women's Penitentiary, where mosaic has become a tool for symbolic and collective reconstruction. She has participated in the Biennial of Contemporary Art SACO, where mosaic expands as a language within contemporary art, and in the Contemporary Art Fair CHACO, exploring its relationship with unconventional formats. Her work extends to public space interventions and experimental processes in Spain and Cuba, with pieces installed in Santiago de Cuba and Pinar del Río, where mosaic not only reconfigures surfaces but also reinterprets landscapes and narratives from a collective and humanistic perspective. (fb)