Desiderata Mosaic
about aja
Aja Ngo is a mosaic artist, a visiting teacher, and a community artist. The materials she uses in her mosaics are glass, glass beads, metal, and precious stones. In most of her installations is a hidden message for viewers to find made from letter beads.
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Aja works with her clients on creating a site, materials, and theme-specific architectural installations. She is passionate about bringing people from different walks of life together around creating mosaic murals.
In 2018 Aja was a finalist as an Artist-in-Residence at the University Club of Portland, where she had a 16-month-long solo art show.
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In 2019 her art was included in portable public art collections in the states of Oregon and Washington.
In 2020 and 2022, she studied at KOKO Mosaico, the premier mosaic school in Ravenna, Italy. In 2020-2022 her art was curated by Art in Embassy program and exhibited in the American Embassy in Palau.
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