Santa Theresa Tile Works - Tuesday 10/27/2026

Santa Theresa Tile Works - Tuesday 10/27/2026

Trip Cost: $50

How crafty are you?

Join us for a tile-mosaic-making workshop at the Santa Theresa Tile Works where you'll create a beautiful one-of-a-kind tile mosaic project. The workshop also includes a tour of the facilities.

Santa Theresa Tile Works makes brilliant, distinctive tile and mosaics that epitomize Tucson decorative style. Once you start noticing Santa Theresa tile, you'll begin to spot it all over town -- and across the nation. Santa Theresa Tile Works is a nonprofit organization that works to keep art accessible, rooted in place, and connected to the community. In 2016, the business was given to Imago Dei Middle School, a free private school for children from low-income families. Through collaborative ceramic art projects, public workshops, and creative learning opportunities, the organization generates earned revenue that sustains Santa Theresa Tile Works' ongoing work and directly supports the educational mission and programming of Imago Dei Middle School.

Learn more about the Santa Theresa Tile Works here.

Registration cost includes the price of a finished 4" wooden frame do-it-yourself mosaic. If you want to go with a different size or type of project, you'll just need to pay the difference at the Tile Works. Here's a copy of their price list. As noted, the price includes the frame, table or bench, tile, and setting and grouting for your do-it-yourself project.  You choose your frame, compose your mosaic, and pick your grout color. Santa Theresa Tile Works will set and grout your mosaic. The trip leader will pick up the completed projects from the Tile Works, bring them back to the Photography Club, and notify you when they are ready.

We’ll meet at the Photography Club at 8:45 AM for carpooling, departing at 9:15 AM. Please wear your GVR Photography Club or Camera Club badge, if available. For those carpooling, $5.00 is an appropriate contribution to the driver.

A no-host lunch will follow the tour -- details will be provided to participants via email.

GVR requires that every person participating in the club's field trips must sign a waiver absolving GVR of any liability.  You will be required to sign the waiver at the Photography club before the trip departs if you haven't already done so.

The last date to cancel for a refund is October 20, 2026. If you need to cancel, please contact the Field Trip Co-Chair Lynn Rozema at 719-351-5193 or email lrozema51@gmail.com.  We may have people on the wait list to take your place. 

If you have to cancel on the day of the trip, please call Sue as soon as you know you cannot make the trip. 

NOTICE:

All participants need to be responsible for an assessment of their mobility and health issues relating to field trips. Some trips may not be appropriate, but you must make that determination. However, the trip leader may deny participation in a specific field trip to anyone deemed not suitably prepared or able to walk with the group.

Be sure to have your GVR card with you for each and every field trip. Without it, you won't be allowed to go on the trip. No refunds will be granted for failure to comply with this requirement.  To protect GVR and club member benefits, GVR has implemented a new process that requires each field trip participant to come into the club and scan his/her GVR card to confirm eligibility. We no longer have the option of typing in your name or GVR number – only the physical GVR card will do.

We will no longer meet in the parking lot. We will meet in the GVR Photography Club where you will scan your GVR card confirming your eligibility to go on the trip. We’ll also review important/late-breaking information, pair up drivers and riders, provide driving directions, and give participants a chance to visit the restrooms prior to departure. Again, be sure to have your GVR card with you.

In order to participate in this event, you must be a member of the GVR Photography Club and GVR.