Karen Clark, Fuchsia Eye Dots, 2015
- Registration Deadline
Friday, January 20, 2017 at 4:00pm - Saturday, January 21–Sunday, January 29, 2017
- 1:00pm – 5:00pm
- MAWA, 611 Main Street
Saturdays & Sundays, January 21, 22, 28 & 29, 1 - 5pm
For those of you who attended the April workshop in batik, here’s an opportunity to delve more deeply into this delicate process of repeated waxing, dyeing and boiling cloth. And for those of you who missed it, it is not too late! This hands-on, in-depth workshop will also be a great introduction to beginners. Batik has existed for thousands of years, and examples have been found in Egyptian tombs. It is a craft practiced in the Middle East, India, Africa and, most famously, Indonesia. Wax and dye are applied in a precise order to produce the desired pattern or figures.
This four-afternoon workshop will enable beginners to design for batik, prepare the cloth, mix dyes, do two dye baths and a final brush-on dye, and learn proper wax removal techniques.
Experienced batikers are asked to bring their own reference images, which will be broken down into four basic values from white to darkest dark. You will decide how the shapes will be dyed sequentially to attain those values, using basic colour theory. Learn how to place the shapes in relation to one another so that open fabric can accept dye to create line work. Tjantings and brushes will be available for wax work.
Or, if you prefer, come and play: all of the supplies are available for an adventure in colour, wax and fabric.
The Cross-Cultural Craft Program is supported by the Ethnocultural Community Support Program and the Aboriginal Cultural Initiatives Program at the Province of Manitoba, Westwood Collegiate Youth and Philanthropy (The Winnipeg Foundation) and the Assiniboine Credit Union.
The workshop is full, please call 204-949-9490 if you would like to be placed on a waiting list. This is a four day workshop, Saturdays & Sundays, January 21, 22, 28 & 29, 1 - 5pm
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Karen Clark is an oil painter, batik artist and printmaker based in Flin Flon, Manitoba, where her work has been exhibited at the Northern Visual Arts Centre (NorVA). She is presently touring a show of batik works, entitled Hard Kids: Trying so hard to be so hard, throughout the province, organized by Manitoba Arts Network. Clark is an enthusiastic arts advocate who promotes, teaches and supports others in their artistic quests.