Angie Halford Halford moved from her home state of North Carolina to Utah this year to begin her business of creat- ing custom sheet mosaics “that are simpler to install without having to fuss or cuss at the material,” she said. Her custom sheets mean fewer adjustments and less of a chance of sheet lines. “Everything I make is custom (unique) for my clients, each job being completely different from the last,” Halford said. “In a nut- shell, I take an AutoCAD design, a designer/ architect drawing, or my own design and make sheet mosa- ics or inlays to the specified size. Being creative in my work is one of the things I love about my job, and each job poses its own excit- ing challenges.” She credits her grandmother (Maw- Maw) with igniting a love of pat- tern that translated into a career in tile and mosaic, when she brought home small felt circles from the hosiery mill where she worked for little Angie to play with. “I remember placing them in certain patterns and making pictures with them,” Halford said. This led to an obsession with jigsaw puzzles and making art out of hundreds of tiny pieces, taking art classes from elementary through high school and entering “every art contest I found out about,” she said. She graduated college with a degree in advertising and graphic design, which evolved into a creative job in the tile industry, spurred by a home- WOMEN IN TILE ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Education is important to Angie Halford. Here she is with NTCA trainer/presenter Robb Roderick at the Salt Lake City NTCA workshop, sponsored by Marazzi USA and held at Rod Katwyk’s new shop. Unique Mosaics winner Angie Halford wins a Global Tile Posse contest to show “ARDEX pride,” cooked up by Jason McDaniel. Entries had to use tile and stone and be done entirely by hand, no waterjet or CNC, and incorporate ARDEX in some way. Halford invested over 150 hours into her 26” x 26” mixed media mosaic self- portrait entry, installed with ARDEX FG-C Unsanded Grout in Black Licorice. Halford creates custom sheet mosaics “that are simpler to install without having to fuss or cuss at the material,” she said. Her custom sheets mean fewer adjust- ments and less of a chance of sheet lines. 92 TileLetter | October 2017