The Long Beach Island branch of the Ocean County Library in Surf City welcomes springtime with an ancient art and folk tradition that symbolize renewal.
Ocean County native Jennifer Santa Maria will conduct a workshop in pysanky egg decoration at the branch on Saturday, April 15 at 10 a.m. Often called Ukrainian eggs, pysansky egg art features multiple stages of colored dyes and patterns drawn with hot beeswax. Colors protected beneath the wax are revealed as each layer is removed.
Pysanky is derived from the Ukrainian verb pysaty, which means “to write.”
Subscribe to keep reading
This story is from our archive. Get your SandPaper Annual Pass for access to our digital archive, plus everything else a pass includes. Details below.
Annual Pass — $18 Details
365-day access to:
- The complete SandPaper digital archive (stories date back to 2012).
- Full photo galleries from our photographers.
- The entire catalog of SandPaper games, puzzles and quizzes.
How it works
- Enter your email below and click to pay the one-time $18. Card details are entered on Stripe’s secure page.
- You’re in straight away — no password to create, and nothing to set up or manage.
- You stay signed in. If you’re ever signed out, or you read on a new phone or computer, we’ll email you a code to get you back in.
- Never auto-renews. Your pass is good for one year. We will email you when it expires so you can renew if you’d like.
See our site policies for more information.
Already a subscriber? We’ll email a code to get you back in.
