Meet the amazing Ricky Boscarino this weekend at SHAMc!

What are you all doing Friday evening? 

How about Saturday and Sunday? 

This is why I ask – The amazingly talented Ricky Boscarino will be visiting SHAMc all the way from New Jersey. Ricky is known for his beauitful jewelry, sculptures and his art home, Luna Parc.

Ricky Boscarino

He will give our first BOLDER TALK on Friday night. Think of Ted Talks, but way more focused around art and the artist’s experiences.

Ricky will introduce himself and talk about his home, Luna Parc. He’ll share his inspirations, the path he took, how things get created there and the history of the process.   

On Saturday and Sunday he will facilitate an all-hands-on workshop to create a permanent art lamp-post for SHAMc.  

“Kiaralinda and I are eleven days apart,” he told me. “Todd and Kiaralinda bought their house the same year and same month that I bought mine. We were all young, enthusiastic. In the early years we knew about each other, but we’ve actually known each other around twenty years. We’d had lots of mutual friends and finally met in the mid to late ‘90s.

Luna Parc

“I think we have a lot in common,” he continued. “Especially in how we approach our living spaces and how we express our enthusiasm.

“We are almost obsessive creative souls. We have a lot of different media and materials that we work with and we do a lot of mosaics. I work with a lot more stone and masonry, metal and welding." 

Unlike most people who are called hoarders, we gather and we do something with what we find. We definitely have a very similar outlook on what we’ve done to transform our individual living spaces.”

“The inspiration for this project has been a couple years in the works. It looks like a giant artichoke. It is cement and you have to walk through it to get in my house. We’ll be using that technique to create what I’m calling a lamp post, for lack of a more descriptive word. It’s going to be really fun.”

Ricky’s workshop will take place Saturday and Sunday and the surface of the piece will later be mosaiced. 

There is a supply fee of $10 per person, per day for the sculpture workshop.

Friday, January 19, BOLDER Talk  6:30 to 7 p.m.

Sculptural Concrete Workshop  Saturday & Sunday, January 20-21, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

More on the process from the SHAMc Website: 

There is a long history of non-conforming construction known as ferro-cement. Basically it refers to any type of reinforcing steel, iron or other metal combined with traditional and modified concrete (cement).

Ricky Boscarino has created numerous sculptures both public and at his home Luna Parc using this method. It is also used in construction of shelters and homes to create sculpted living spaces.

Ricky has been inspired by the undulating roof lines of Gaudi of Barcelona as well as the eccentric imposing facades of Hundertwasser (of Vienna and New Zealand).

In this two day workshop we will construct a sculptural electrified lamppost which will be a permanent fixture at SHAMC in Safety Harbor FL.

We'll work with Ricky and the founders of SHAMC on the piece using the ferro-cement method. You can be a part of  the process from beginning to completion.

The process can be difficult at times, cement, wire mesh and wire are somewhat stubborn materials so be prepared to work, have fun and be a part of this amazing experience. The result will be spectacular!