Arianne King Comer – Artist in Residence

Metamorphous batik on silk satin -- 48 in x 49 in -

Arianne King Comer is a multi-talented artist specializing in batik using the traditional indigo dye process to create batik paintings, wearable art, and decorative items.  She is a graduate of Howard University and has studied textiles at the graduate level at Detroit Center of Creative Studies and Cranbrook Art Academy.  She worked as a certified art teacher in Michigan before pursuing art full time and studying the indigo dye process on a United Nations grant in Oshogbo, Nigeria in 1992.  She was the director of the Ibile Indigo House at Penn Center until 2004 and she relocated to Charleston in 2006 and lives at the Navy Yard at Noisette. For more info go to  http://arianne.tempt3d.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=26