{"id":314,"date":"2009-02-02T14:39:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T19:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/blog\/?p=314"},"modified":"2009-02-17T15:28:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T20:28:06","slug":"ready-for-some-color-in-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/ready-for-some-color-in-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready for some color in your life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-319\" title=\"Pysanki by Carol Kosteki. Photo by Kate Kruckemeyer.\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/kostecki_eggs1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or at least in your eggs? Carol Kostecki will demonstrate the wax-resist process of decorating Easter eggs known as pysanki on Saturday, February 7th, from 1:00-3:00 p.m. at the  <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalheritagemuseum.org\/default.aspx?tabid=474\" target=\"_blank\">National Heritage Museum <\/a>in Lexington, Massachusetts. This tradition, associated with Ukrainian church communities, came to Kostecki by way of marriage despite her own French-Canadian, German, and Abenaki descent. She is featured in the exhibition, <em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massfolkarts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Keepers of Tradition<\/a><\/em>. Free admission. Snow date: Sunday, February 8.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-320\" title=\"Carol demonstrating at last year's Lowell Folk Festival. Photo by Maggie Holtzberg.\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/karol-demonstrating.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"248\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or at least in your eggs? Carol Kostecki will demonstrate the wax-resist process of decorating Easter eggs known as pysanki on Saturday, February 7th, from 1:00-3:00 p.m. at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Massachusetts. This tradition, associated with Ukrainian church communities, came to Kostecki by way of marriage despite her own French-Canadian, German, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/ready-for-some-color-in-your-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ready for some color in your life?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[88,18,126],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craft","tag-artist-demo","tag-pysanki","tag-ukrainian-and-polish-decorated-eggs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ready for some color in your life? - Keepers of Tradition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/ready-for-some-color-in-your-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ready for some color in your life? - Keepers of Tradition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Or at least in your eggs? 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