Artist: Sonata Kazimieraitiene

Location: Palm Aire Gazebo on the northeast corner West Palm Aire Dr. and Oaks Dr.

This twelve-foot diameter floor mosaics was titled WOW! After the Public Art Committee saw the design and exclaimed their joy to its beauty. Made entirely out of glass mosaics, the artwork represents nature, dragonflies, and the surrounding water.

Other projects that are a part of the Mosaic Team term 1 include the Trail of the Honey Bees, Community, and WOW!. Kazimieraitiene was also commissioned to work on term 2 and 3 of this 3 term program.

Sonata Kazimieraitiene was born in Lithuania 1968, where she received her MFA in Design from Vilnius Academy of Art (1992). She moved to the United States in the year 2000, and subsequently received her MBA in Marketing from Concordia University in Wisconsin (2005). She has produced large-scale murals and mosaics under the auspices of Chicago Public Art Group, and through grants from Illinois Arts Council, in such locations as Green Hills Public Library in Palos Hills, IL, CTA Station in Evanston, IL, and Colin Powel Muddle School in Matterson, IL. In addition, she has been artist-in-residence for several elementary and high schools in Chicago area.