Julie Richey Mosaics

I’ve been making mosaics for more than 33 years, creating custom residential and commercial installations in the US, Italy, and Mexico.  My mosaics and sculptures have been exhibited across the US and in Italy at the biennial Ravenna Mosaico festival and at the Orsoni Smalti Veneziani foundry in Venice as part of the Orsoni Grand Prize for mosaic in 2009.  

I have two mosaic passions: making large works for public spaces and creating smaller, more personal sculptures in mosaic.  Public art requires a balance of function and imagery, and I enjoy the challenge of creating unique, site-specific mosaics which create a memorable place.

In my sculptural pieces, I try to channel the innate opulence of mosaic materials – 24k gold smalti, marble, semi-precious stones, iridescent glass and minerals – to embellish sculptural forms in unexpected ways.  See the Project Gallery. 

In addition to making mosaics, I offer curated art and culinary tours to Italy, where I share years of accumulated knowledge of the Italian culture with a small group of enthusiastic travelers. In 2024, we offered our first Textures in Taos weeklong workshop. To receive information about tours and workshops from our subscriber list, please sign up on our Contact page.

Julie Richey Mosaics, LLC is a member of The Association of Consultants for Liturgical Space, a voluntary membership organization of professionals dedicated to the creation of beautiful worship spaces for faith communities. Liturgical-consultants.org.