Join us at the Goldmark Cultural Center’s Auditorium on Wednesday 11/20 and Thursday 11/21 for a special free 2-day workshop on African Resist Textiles and Fashion, with a focus on Tie-dye/Batik Technique, presented by Professor Pamela Cyril-Egware, the 2024 recipient of the Goldmark Cultural Center’s Anthony Okonofua International Artist Residency.
Professor Cyril-Egware is an accomplished textile and fiber artist, a distinguished expert on traditional Niger Delta textile art, and a member of the arts faculty at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria.
The workshop is free to attend for all observers and participants. No registration is required, just arrive at the workshop location at 14001 Goldmark Dr, Dallas TX 75240.
Workshop observers do not need to bring any supplies or materials.
Workshop participants must bring their own rubber kitchen gloves, apron, and their own fabric material to be dyed. The fabric material must be 100% cotton and can be plain fabric or a T-shirt or other garment. Participants can also bring their own sewing machines (optional).
Everyone should bring their own lunch.
About the Artist
Professor Pamela Isemikon Cyril-Egware, born on the 24th of August 1961, is a Professor of Textiles and Fashion Design from Okpoama-Brass in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. She has a PhD, MFA, and BA, all in Textiles and Fashion Design, from the University of Port Harcourt, the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and Ahmadu Bello University, respectively. She also has an NCE, which qualifies her to teach at all levels from the Federal College of Education, Yola.
Pamela is an experienced teacher who has trained people at various levels, formally and informally, in her private studio and at universities, polytechniques, and colleges of education. While teaching at multiple levels, Pamela also handled administrative positions, including Head of Department of Fine Arts and Design, University of Port Harcourt, among others. She is the director of PAMEK Studio & Gallery, where she trains students on industrial attachment skills acquisition and organizes workshops for organizations, holiday children, churches, and associations in Drawing, Textiles, and Fashion production. Her research interest is in documenting the cultural heritage of the Niger Delta people on textiles for fashionable garments and interiors, especially using aquatic forms as motifs.
Pamela has published over 40 articles in reputable peer-reviewed journals nationally and internationally. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Uyo for one year as an external examiner to Colleges of Education and Universities within and outside Nigeria. She is currently billed as a research fellow at Michigan State University and a recipient of an Anthony Okonofua International Artist Residency at Goldmark Cultural Center. She has attended workshops and conferences and exhibited within and outside Nigeria in groups and solo.
She has designed major commissioned works, which include but are not limited to the Centenary wrapper for St. Michael’s Anglican Church Omoku and the Twentieth Anniversary wrapper for the Diocese of Niger Delta West. Pamela was the secretary of the Female Artists Association of Nigeria (FEAAN) from 2011 to 2018 and Secretary to the Society of Nigerian Artists (SNA) from 2008 to 2014.
Pamela is a patron of the Boy’s Brigade Nigeria, 1st ONELGA Company, and the Anglican Communion Brigade DNDN, where she served for several years as financial secretary. She is a Knight of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Diocese of Niger Delta West Anglican Communion. She is blessed with two daughters from her marriage to Late Barrister Ogheneovo Cyril Egware and a handsome grandson from her first daughter.