About Linda

I’ve always been a maker.

I am a mosaic artist who has been making a wide variety of mosaics since 2010. I have been much more prolific since 2015 when I retired from my 38-year career in hospital community health services. I then worked part-time as the COO at a small non-profit providing wrap-around health care services to homeless women. By the fall of 2020 I fully retired (while isolating in the middle of the Covid pandemic), and have been mosaicing intensely since then. 

I started this website as a way to keep track of my work and see my progress, and for an easy way to share it. I have deep gratitude for my daughter Rose Gerber’s gift of developing and supporting the site.

I had been a “maker” of various genres all my life, sewing my own clothes, and did many craft activities with children. I bought my first (ancient) sewing machine when I got my first nursing job in 1971. Continued sewing through the 1980s, and dabbled in embroidery, needlepoint, macrame, weaving and even ceramics but eventually fell out of love with all of it. I bought a floor loom in 1977, and kept trying to create unique and 3D work, but the precise mathematical skills needed for complex weaving did not interest me, though I collected a ton of yarn!  

 I was first magnetically and irresistibly attracted to mosaics when I saw my friend Betsy Rodman nipping little pieces of shiny glass at music festivals and purchased some of her small mosaic art. Betsy and Suzanne Owayda opened Mosaic Oasis, a mosaic studio and supply shop in my town. I took my first class there in 2010 and I was hooked.  

My first piece was a sphere with glass, and I’ve continued to do a lot of 3D forms. I have played with and experimented with many materials such as hand cut beach stone, slate and shale, found objects, shells and fresh water pearls, slag and cullet glass, porcelain, ceramics, and of course traditional marble, stained glass and smalti. I like to feel a personal connection to each piece, or have it tell a story. I did a couple of pieces in 2023-4 reflecting my passion for social justice, with a focus on gun violence and war.

I have exhibited at many New England Mosaic Society shows at the Schwamb Mill, Somerville Museum, Post Road Art Center in Marlboro, at Lasell College, Attleboro Art Museum and the Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River (2024) and at the sculpture installation at Art in the Orchard in Easthampton (2018). I also had two pieces in “Please Touch the Art” exhibit at the Mosesian Center for the arts June-September of 2019. My mosaiced chair won prizes at Arlington’s “Chairful Where You Sit” in 2019 and 2022. I have had small pieces exhibited in the “100 Mosaic Moments” for the Society of American Mosaic Artists in 2018, 2020, and 2024. 

I love The Ruins Project in Whitsett, Pennsylvania. I have contributed over 70 small (some very small!) mosaic pieces to that magical collaborative mosaic art installation. It is in an abandoned coal mine, dedicated to those who come from coal. It is owned, operated and curated by Rachel Sager, mosaic artist and writer extraordinaire. Rachel has been a major inspiration for my recent work in many ways.

I work out of my home in Arlington, MA. I have a (very messy) studio in my basement but often work under better lighting in my dining room, on my patio and at my partner George’s house on Cape Cod. I have a station in my shed for making malmischiato (hand pulled filati made from smalti) with a blow torch. 

I am very grateful for the thoughtful technical and logistical support from my life partner George Silvis. Also much appreciation for our good friend Jean-François Louis, a talented artisanal carpenter who graciously modifies frames, create stands and other needs such as shaping a cedar log to fit a substrate.

Thank you for stopping by my website to see my work. Happy mosaicing!