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Pattern Keepers: Batchelder Nature In Relief - Workshop 3/3: Cosmos $39.19

  • Pasadena Heritage 160 North Oakland Avenue Pasadena, CA, 91101 United States (map) 
Photo by Shagho

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. 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!

5 scholarships are available for those in hardship, please email.

AGENDA

  • Walk to Plaza Las Fuentes

  • Open Archives & Pasadena History Museum

  • Batchelder history & books

  • Guest Speaker: Bryce Bolin, Research Scientist at Eureka Scientific

  • Geometric inspiration

  • Creative Experiments

  • Dream landscapes

  • Main Project

  • Tiny Grant Feedback Form

Made possible in part by the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division.

 

Guests

  • Bryce Bolin, Research Scientist at Eureka Scientific

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Pasadena Heritage

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.

 

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