Pattern Keepers: Batchelder Nature In Relief - Workshop 1/3: Plants

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!

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

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—patterns waiting for hands working clay, paper, leather, and found materials. 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.

12/20 WORKSHOP 1 - Plants

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.

• Open Archives & Pasadena History Museum
• Batchelder history & books
• Dream landscapes
• Plant inspiration
• Guest Speaker: Tree People
• Creative Experiments
• Main Project
• Tiny Grant Feedback Form
  

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

Full details coming soon.

• 10/10: Open House with Pasadena Heritage: Pasadena Art Night, Save The Tiles, Artist Talks & Tour
• 12/20: Plant Workshop with Pasadena Heritage, Guests: Tree People
• TBA: Tour with Pasadena Walking Tours: Urban Hike
• TBA: Tour with Huntington Library & Botanical Gardens
  Open Archives
• TBA: Bird Workshop with Pasadena Heritage, Guests: Mycoverse & Pasadena Adabon Society
• TBA: Clay Foraging & Tour with Armory Center For The Arts
• TBA: Cosmos Workshop with Pasadena Heritage, Guests: Spacegirl & Climate Designers
• TBA: Open House with Pasadena Heritage, Talk & Celebration

Shagho is a multidisciplinary design leader, artist, and cultural practitioner who works at the frontiers of innovation and community. As founder of Folk Lounge, she facilitates cultural programming to study the grammar of ornament known for Embroidery Socials across LA parks to explore how traditional craft practices foster community, continue cultural preservation in contemporary urban settings, connect us with land and encourage being. Born in Vladivostok, of Armenian and Russian heritage, she holds a BS in Fashion Design and an MFA in Human-Computer Interaction from California College of the Arts. She believes in the power of collective making to weave new connections between past wisdom and future possibility.

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