Mia TAVONATTI ~ Glass Mosaics ✿

Mia Tavonatti is an internationally acclaimed and sought-after muralist, illustrator, painter and mosaicist. Her paintings and glass mosaics can be found in public, private, institutional and corporate collections worldwide from Marriott Resorts and Harrah’s Casinos to the United States Air Force.

Mia earned her BFA and MFA from California State University Long Beach, where she majored in Illustration. Mia has studied in Paris at the Sorbonne, Parsons School of Design, in the studio of renowned French impressionist Monsieur Relange’, and in Italy and Greece numerous times with such renowned international painters as Dominick Cretara, Johnny Cariachi, and Demitri Mitsanas. 

Mia has been known to paint with glass. Her intricate stained glass mosaics weave her experience as a painter with her love of high renaissance glass mosaics. She has created numerous mosaics for churches, restaurants, residences, corporations and public works projects throughout the US over the last sixteen years. Mia’s monumental glass mosaics Svelata and the Crucifixion of Christ garneted her consecutive 2nd and 1st Place awards at Artprize, the world’s largest art completion, in 2010 and 2011, exposing her to an even wider audience.