Catherine Cross Tsintzos an interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary artist with a focus on en vironmental and social issues\, traditional fine craft and sustainability. She has a clear purpose in building and crossing a bridge among the arts with a deep focus and balance between artistic practice\, teaching\, activ ism and invitation for participation. Catherine has spent her life’s work developing programs and teaching in the arts in the Southeast United State s for all ages and abilities. She is a NC artist from Greensboro and spend s most of her time in Florida where she has been actively involved with ar ts education at the Orlando Museum of Art for the past 15 years. Catherine works with arts organizations\, museums and universities including Redux Contemporary Arts Center/SC\, Orlando Museum of Art/FL\, Frederick Book Ar ts Center\, MD\, Rollins College/FL\, Duke University Continuing Studies/N C\, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum/NC\, Greenville Center for Creative Ar t/SC and the Florence County Museum/SC currently. Her love for the element of surprise and process art have led her to work with mediums that includ e clay\, paper\, printmaking\, book and fiber arts\, alternative photograp hic processes\, natural plant dyes and earth pigments. Through her museum work she has had the privilege to work with many national and internationa l artists and works of art that have continued to scaffold her interest in being a lifelong learner and to keep the creative process fresh and invig orated with her personal art making. Catherine serves on the Board of the Rensing Center.
\n\nIndigofera suffruticosa is the botanic al name for Ormond Beach’s local indigo. It refers to a perennial tree or shrub with a woody base and herbaceous top of the pea family\, native to t ropical and subtropical regions of South America. The plant has grown wild in Ormond since 1766 (256 years) when wealthy Scottish merchant Richard O swald acquired 20\,000 acres of land along the Halifax and Tomoka Rivers f rom the British government. Oswald’s plantation encompassed what is now To moka State Park. The Mount Oswald Plantation brought enslaved Africans to clear land and to grow and harvest indigo\, rice\, cotton\, molasses\, rum and sugar. Indigo has been esteemed and used for thousands of years in it s natural form throughout the world. Indigofera suffruticosa has been one of the most commercially-significant sources of indigo dye in history. The plant grows 4 to 6 feet tall\, with compound leaves 2 to 3 inches long wi th many pairs of rounded leaflets. If you tear a leaflet\, the cut edges w ill turn blue. Clusters of tiny coppery pink pea-like flowers are produced in late summer\, followed by small curved seedpods. In 1744\, a young wom an in Charleston South Carolina\, Eliza Lucas Pinckney\, became the first person to grow indigo successfully in Colonial America\, using seeds that her father had sent from the West Indies. American growers were exporting more than 1\,000\,000 pounds of indigo to England just before the American Revolution. The advent of cotton as a cash crop after the war and the los s of the British import demand contributed to the demise of indigo product ion in the United States.
X-WR-RELCALID:6cbcfbc2aabb201ee2c8d150ee6d90c7 X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20221106T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20230312T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3bc66ede-799e-4b07-82fc-f0afac56044b DTSTAMP:20260502T063114Z DESCRIPTION:♦ DATES: Wednesday & Thursday\, March 30 & 31\, 2022\n♦ < b>TIME: 11:00am - 3:00pm\n♦ LOCATION: OMAM Gardens (meet at the Emmons Cottage)\n♦ COST: $225 museum members\; $248 future members \nânâ REGISTRATION DEADLINE: March 27th\; open to ages 16 and older
\n\nCatherine Cross Tsintzos an interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary artist with a focus on env ironmental and social issues\, traditional fine craft and sustainability. She has a clear purpose in building and crossing a bridge among the arts w ith a deep focus and balance between artistic practice\, teaching\, activi sm and invitation for participation. Catherine has spent her life’s work d eveloping programs and teaching in the arts in the Southeast United States for all ages and abilities. She is a NC artist from Greensboro and spends most of her time in Florida where she has been actively involved with art s education at the Orlando Museum of Art for the past 15 years. Catherine works with arts organizations\, museums and universities including Redux C ontemporary Arts Center/SC\, Orlando Museum of Art/FL\, Frederick Book Art s Center\, MD\, Rollins College/FL\, Duke University Continuing Studies/NC \, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum/NC\, Greenville Center for Creative Art /SC and the Florence County Museum/SC currently. Her love for the element of surprise and process art have led her to work with mediums that include clay\, paper\, printmaking\, book and fiber arts\, alternative photograph ic processes\, natural plant dyes and earth pigments. Through her museum w ork she has had the privilege to work with many national and international artists and works of art that have continued to scaffold her interest in being a lifelong learner and to keep the creative process fresh and invigo rated with her personal art making. Catherine serves on the Board of the Rensing Center.
\n\nIndigofera suffruticosa is the botanica l name for Ormond Beach’s local indigo. It refers to a perennial tree or s hrub with a woody base and herbaceous top of the pea family\, native to tr opical and subtropical regions of South America. The plant has grown wild in Ormond since 1766 (256 years) when wealthy Scottish merchant Richard Os wald acquired 20\,000 acres of land along the Halifax and Tomoka Rivers fr om the British government. Oswald’s plantation encompassed what is now Tom oka State Park. The Mount Oswald Plantation brought enslaved Africans to c lear land and to grow and harvest indigo\, rice\, cotton\, molasses\, rum and sugar. Indigo has been esteemed and used for thousands of years in its natural form throughout the world. Indigofera suffruticosa has been one o f the most commercially-significant sources of indigo dye in history. The plant grows 4 to 6 feet tall\, with compound leaves 2 to 3 inches long wit h many pairs of rounded leaflets. If you tear a leaflet\, the cut edges wi ll turn blue. Clusters of tiny coppery pink pea-like flowers are produced in late summer\, followed by small curved seedpods. In 1744\, a young woma n in Charleston South Carolina\, Eliza Lucas Pinckney\, became the first p erson to grow indigo successfully in Colonial America\, using seeds that h er father had sent from the West Indies. American growers were exporting m ore than 1\,000\,000 pounds of indigo to England just before the American Revolution. The advent of cotton as a cash crop after the war and the loss of the British import demand contributed to the demise of indigo producti on in the United States.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220331T235900 LOCATION:https://ormondartmuseum.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/ormondartmuseum /eventRegistration.jsp?event=233& SUMMARY:Indigo 'Seed to Dye' 2-Day Outdoor Workshop END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR