Each year the Brookings Summer Arts Festival awards the Committee Choice Awards and the Recognition of Excellence Award . Below is a list of award recipients for the 2000 Brookings Summer Arts Festival. Deb creates her work using beeswax in the background, then she dyes the fabric, and finally boils out the beeswax.
Deb works with different artists to create different types of batik using different methods.
She builds her own frames and has done batik for nine years. She has traveled to India, Nepal and Malaysia. This is her first year at the Brookings Summer Arts Festival. 941-4406 Marnie has been doing this for 33 years and has been to the Brookings Summer Arts Festival for about 20 years. She is self-taught in batik, and used to do only Watercolors.