2008 Workshops and Lectures

I have been teaching basketry since shortly after my first series of classes with Rachel Seidel Gilman.
New York City's Office of Cultural Affairs offered her a short-term job teaching free basketry classes in
a vacant store-front on 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue. I drove in from Long Island to co-teach it, and a
new career was started. We found it so satisfying to watch the participants' faces as they realized they
could weave a basket in an hour right in the heart of Manhattan. I continue to teach and love every
(well, almost every) minute of it.

        

January 12, 2008
Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
www.hunterdonartmuseum.org
"Four Quick Baskets Japanese Style"

April 5 and 6, 2008
Brookfield Craft Center; Brookfield, CT
www.brookfieldcraftcenter.org
“Japanese Fishing Creel Basket”
"Basketry for Potters"

May 17, 2008
Fiber Art Center; Amherst, MA
Contact: Katie Rubinstein
"Fiber Vessels – Asian Style"

July 7 to 10, 2008
Colorado Basketmakers' Guild; Colorado Springs, CO
Contact: Linda Lugenbill
"Plaiting and Twining: Layering of 2 Cultures"
"Traditional Japanese Packaging"
"4 Quick Baskets – Japanese Style"

July 19 and August 23, 2008
Fiber Art Center; Amherst, MA
Contact: Katie Rubinstein
“Open-Hexagonal Basketry”

July 24, 2008
The Berkshire Botanical Garden; Stockbridge, MA
www.berkshirebotanical.org
“Paper Covered Baskets – Japanese Style”

August 4 and 5, 2008
Whidbey Weavers’ Guild; Whidbey Island, WA
Contact: Tricia Nakoma
“Traditional Japanese Packaging”
“Hanakago: Japanese Fishing Creel Basket”

August 8 to 10, 2008
Northwest Basketry Weavers – Vi Phillips Basketry Guild; Seattle, WA
Contact: Mary Irvine
“Plaiting and Twining”
“Traditional Japanese Packaging”

August 12 to 14, 2008
To be announced
Salt Spring Island Basketry Guild
Contact: Donna Cochran

August 24 to 30, 2008
Snow Farm: The New England Craft Program; Williamsburg, MA
www.snowfarm.org
“Basic Baskets with A Japanese Twist”

November 2008
To be announced
Japanese Garden; Portland, OR

AND IN 2009

April 24 to 27, 2009
Conference of Northern California Handweavers; Sonoma, CA
“Plaiting and Twining: Layering Two Cultures”
www.cnch.org/

2007 Workshops and Lectures

March 8 to 14, 2007
Rift Gallery, NM
"Traditional Japanese Packaging"
"4 Quick Baskets – Japanese Style"
"Basketry Techniques for Potters"

Late March, 2007
Irish Crafts Council
Kilkenny, Ireland
"4 Quick Baskets – Japanese Style"
"Traditional Japanese Packaging"

April 19 to 22, 2007
Conference of Northern California Handweavers, CA
"Traditional Japanese Packaging"
"4 Quick Baskets – Japanese Style"

April 27 to 29, 2007
Los Angeles Basketry Guild/CA
"Traditional Japanese Packaging"
"Hanakago: Flower Basket"

May 20 to 26, 2007
Snow Farm: The New England Craft Program, MA
"Basic Baskets with a Japanese Twist"

June 9 and 10, 2007
Great Basin Basketmakers, NV
"4 Quick Baskets – Japanese Style"
"Traditional Japanese Packaging"

July 26 to 31, 2007
Peters Valley, NJ
"Baskets: With a Nod to Japan"

July 1 to 7, 2007
Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, TN
"Plaiting and Twining: Layering Two Cultures"

October 6, 2007
Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden, NY
www.hammondmuseum.org
Two, two-hour workshops
"Quick Baskets Japanese Style"

November 10, 2007
The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY
www.nybg.org
"Quick Baskets Japanese Style"