Pasadena Weekly: Rediscovering Batchelder’s Legacy: Workshops Honor Pasadena’s Tile Master

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Written By Folk Lounge

When the Eaton Fire tore through Pasadena, Ernest Batchelder's century-old tiles were often the only fragments that survived. Now Folk Lounge founder Shagho is leading three workshops at Pasadena Heritage exploring Batchelder's legacy and his 1901 question: why did we stop embedding beauty into everyday objects? Made possible in part by the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division. The Pasadena Weekly profiles her work connecting the tile master's nature-inspired patterns to local archives and cultural preservation.

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Pattern Keepers: Batchelder Nature In Relief - Workshop 1/3: Plants $39.19
Dec 20
Pattern Keepers: Batchelder Nature In Relief - Workshop 1/3: Plants $39.19

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.

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Pattern Keepers: Batchelder Nature In Relief - Workshop 2/3: Birds $39.19
Jan 17
Pattern Keepers: Batchelder Nature In Relief - Workshop 2/3: Birds $39.19

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.

Pattern Keepers: Batchelder Nature In Relief - Workshop 3/3: Cosmos $39.19
Jan 31
Pattern Keepers: Batchelder Nature In Relief - Workshop 3/3: Cosmos $39.19

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.

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Folk Lounge is redefining what cultural preservation looks like in the 21st century—not as museum work, but as urgent community infrastructure. Founded by multidisciplinary artist and design leader Shagho, this LA-based craft collective transforms public parks into contemplative making spaces where traditional ornamental practices become direct responses to nature deficit, digital overwhelm, and the breakdown of intergenerational knowledge transmission. With partnerships spanning institutions like the Wende Museum and Pasadena Heritage to LA Design Weekend and corporate retreats, Folk Lounge is bridging scholarly rigor with grassroots cultural stewardship—proving that the antidote to our contemporary crises might just be gathering to make beauty with our hands.

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