Children’s Batik workshop with Jamie Lynch
Art educator Jamie Lynch will teach a two-part Batik print workshop on Saturday, August 7th from 10:00 a.m. to noon, and Sunday, August 8th from 1p.m.-3p.m. at the Kennedy-Douglass Art Center Southall-Moore House. Participants will learn how to dye cloth and create patterns using the batik wax resist method.
Batik is an art medium and methodology for creating vibrant and colorful designs, usually on cloth. Although the exact origins of the batik process have not been determined, evidence of early examples of batik have been found in the Far East, Middle East, Central Asia, and India from over 2,000 years ago, it is likely that the craft spread from Asia to the islands of the Malay Archipelago and west to the Middle East along the caravan trading route.
Jamie Lynch has been an art educator in the Shoals for over twenty years, she has taught at both Muscle Shoals and Florence city schools. She currently teaches art lessons from the Sunflower Studio, her studio space at the Southall-Moore House.
The August 7th/8th workshop fee of $20 includes instruction and all materials and tools.