Darlene Hellard of McKee will be creating cornshuck flowers from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Aug. 29, at the Kentucky Artisan Center.
As a native of Jackson County, Hellard creates an array of colorful cornshuck flowers and cornshuck angel bookmarkes.
Hellard even used to search through her neighbors corn cribs to gather corn shucks to bleach and dye for her flowers. Today, she buys her shucks commercially and uses fabric dyes to achieve her different colors.
Her flowers are made by first tying a flower center onto a floral wire stem. Then each flower petal or bud is cut to pattern, shaped and tied individually before being assembled and tied again onto the stem.
Hellard is a member of the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen, the Southern Highland Craft Guild and the Kentucky Arts Council's Kentucky Craft Marketing Program.
Works by Hellard are regularly found at the
Kentucky Artisan Center located at 975 Walnut Meadow Road, just off Interstate 75 at exit 77 at Berea.
For more information call (859) 985-5778 or visit the center's Web site at
www.kentuckyartisancenter.ky.gov.
