Art Lab: Pysanky

Name: Art Lab: Pysanky
Start: 2025-04-12T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-12T15:30:00-05:00
Location: Kemp Center for the Arts (1300 Lamar St, Wichita Falls, TX)

Schedule

Sat Apr 12 2025 at 01:00 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Kemp Center for the Arts (1300 Lamar St, Wichita Falls, TX) | Wichita Falls, TX

Date: Saturday, April 12
Time: 1:00PM - 3:30PM
Ages: Kids 12 and up/Adults
Fee: $40 (all supplies included)
Instructor: Abigail Squyres
Location: The Kemp
Pysanky is an ancient Ukrainian art form still practiced today using bees wax and dye to decorate hollowed out egg shell. In this class you will decorate 2 pre-cleaned chicken eggs and learn all the essential skills to make pysanky at home! Once complete, your decorated eggs will last for years to come. No experience necessary.
Children ages 12 - 16 must be accompanied by a paid adult.
What's Included:
-Step-by-step guidance from an experienced teaching artist
-All materials to create two dyed eggs
-BYO Snacks (beverages and snacks welcome)
-Learn skills you can use at home to continue creating beautiful dyed eggs
About Your Instructor:
Abigail Squyres is a professional artist and illustrator working primarily in colored pencil. She's also an expert pysanky artists, using eggs raised at her home in Amarillo, Texas.