The Pysanky of Sunny Klapp - Arts Prescott Coopertive Gallery on Whiskey Row

Local artist joins in on the Egg Show at Arts Prescott Cooperative Gallery. 

Arts Prescott enjoys creating their hand painted Easter Eggs to hand them on
the Easter Tree. This custom comes from an old European Tradition.

Joining in on this years Egg Show is Local Artist Sunny Klapp. Sunny is a Pysanky Artist. Pysanka translated from Ukrainian is an egg that has been written on. These eggs were written upon with repeated applications of hot wax and dye and it is a time communing batik art process.

Sunny Klapp has been creating this EGG ART for the past 10 years. She applies hot beeswax and aniline dyes to chicken, duck, goose and ostrich eggs. Fabric motifs, quilt patterns and traditional designs from many cultures find their way onto this organic canvas. Sunny's boundless enthusiasm for her art is evident when she talks about this process. She says, "I have never held an egg I did not like".

This show will be in the window of Arts Prescott Cooperative Gallery, 134 South Montezuma Street on Historical Whiskey Row in Prescott from April 3 to April 16, 2009. Gallery hours are from 10 AM to 6 PM. Drop by and view the artful eggs.

http://www.americantowns.com/az/prescott/events/easter-egg-pysanka-eggs-by-local-artist-sunny-klapp

Comment from David Piatak:  "I noted your story on this art form.  I grew up with it as a child and had watched the process several times which to say the least is quite complex.  The name originates from the word pysat which means to write.  Although the Ukrainians get most of the publicity for it,  several Slavic groups like Slovak, Polish, Carpathian Rus, etc. also do some form of it which can be very involved or simpler.  Even within a particular group different regional art forms might prevail.  Following the Easter Sunday mass when the Easter baskets were blessed, the sport was to look in all the baskets and admire all the different eggs."

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