Pattern Keepers: Batchelder Nature In Relief - Closing Reception
Join us for a series of events hosted by @_shagho (she/her) artist and community facilitator, exploring Ernest Batchelder's ornamental legacy through nature's hidden patterns.
https://www.folklounge.com/events
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ABOUT
Eucalyptus seed pods crack into star forms, California live oak acorns nest in textured caps, and Anna's hummingbird throats flash ruby coin-sized patches. These patterns wait for hands and found materials to bring them into new forms. Working with local museums and heritage sites, participants will translate nature's geometries into relief and surface design, encoding collective wishes about a more harmonious, abundant world. Each repeated motif becomes anticipatory consciousness—active projections reshaping reality through patient ornamental work.
This series of events is hosted to bring the community together to help Pasadena History Museum in compiling a registry of Batchelder tile installations throughout the United States and Canada, asking for assistance from the public to document for the first time the scope of the business and distribution of the tiles throughout North America. Learn more!
Pasadena Heritage is a preservation organization that protects the city's architectural and craft legacy through advocacy, education, and community engagement. Pasadena Heritage is a hands-on, community-driven experience that welcomes everyone to step behind historic buildings and into the studios, gardens, and neighborhoods where Pasadena's design traditions were born and continue to thrive. Explore their annual programming including Craftsman Weekend and year-round celebrations of the city's design culture.
Made possible in part by the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division.
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AGENDA
Closing reception mingle
Artist presentation & findings
Exhibition of works completed
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EVENTS
Funded by the grant series:
PASSED: 10/10: Open House with Pasadena Heritage: Pasadena Art Night, Save The Tiles, Artist Talks & Tour
PASSED 12/20: Plant Workshop, guest TreePeople
PASSED 01/17: Bird Workshop, guest Pasadena Audubon Society
UPCOMING 03/13: Open House with Pasadena Heritage: Pasadena Art Night, Artist Talks & Tour
UPCOMING 03/21: Cosmos Workshop, guest Bryce Bolin
UPCOMING 04/30: Closing Reception
TBD: Arroyo Hike
TBD: Open Archives Tour
ARTITST
Shagho is a multidisciplinary design leader, artist, and cultural practitioner who works at the frontiers of innovation and community. As founder of Folk Lounge, she facilitates cultural programming to study the grammar of ornament known for Embroidery Socials across LA parks to explore how traditional craft practices foster community, continue cultural preservation in contemporary urban settings, connect us with land and encourage being. Born in Vladivostok, of Armenian and Russian heritage, she holds a BS in Fashion Design and an MFA in Human-Computer Interaction from California College of the Arts. She believes in the power of collective making to weave new connections between past wisdom and future possibility.
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TERMS
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