Julie Mazzoni teaches mosaic glass in multiple locations and is best known for her three-dimensional conceptual and two-dimensional realism mosaics. After living in six cities in twelve years while raising four children, sense of place and home became a driving theme in her work, which has been influenced by mosaic masters Guilio Menossi and Ilana Shafir. The beauty of mosaic is not the uniformity of hand-cut pieces, but rather in celebrating the variety of texture, shape and reflectivity of tesserae while still seeing the whole work.