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Upcoming NBO Events
NBO Presents with SAQA: Art Evolved: Intertwined
There is a continuum where beauty and function blend and diverge in the hands of the contemporary artist. Even when traditional materials such as thread, fabric, wood, reed, and paper are used, these artists combine skill, imagination, and vision to meld their materials into compelling and beautiful art which resonates in today’s world.
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Here, Now, and Always
July 2, 2022 - July 2, 2028
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
710 Camino Lejo off Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe NM
After 25 years, now fully renewed and reimagined, Here, Now and Always showcases never-before seen items, state of the art technology, and the next generation’s perspectives, illustrating the ways in which the past informs the future, and further positioning MIAC as a world-renowned resource for understanding Native lives, arts, and cultures today.
Information at Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
Mary Jackson Modern and Contemporary Gallery
October 17, 2022 - December 31, 2025
Gibbes Museum of Art
135 Meeting Street, Charleston SC
Works in this gallery were created over the past forty years by artists who are native to the area, who have worked here, or who have created objects that reflect the complex story of the region. The works are grouped to reflect several themes including the southern landscape, the human figure, abstraction, and the legacy of slavery in America.
On permanent display at the Gibbes Museum of Art
Bark Basketry Basics: On-Demand Basket Weaving Class
February 1, 2024 - December 31, 2034
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Inside this course, you’ll learn how to harvest, prepare and store bark, use a variety of simple hand tools to make the process easier and faster, and weave bark using simple techniques like plaiting, twill and twining.
Information and registration at Matt Tommey – Woven Sculpture from Nature
Rib Basketry Basics: On-Demand Basket Weaving Class
February 1, 2024 - December 31, 2034
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Inside this 25-lesson course you’ll learn how to harvest and prepare materials for weaving, create 4 baskets, including the Egg Basket, Oriole Basket, Hen Basket, and Harvest Basket, weave beautiful lashings, including the God’s Eye, 1/2 God’s Eye, and 3-point lashing, insert ribs to create unique and interesting shapes, and add whimsey and interest to your baskets with vines.
Information and registration at Matt Tommey – Woven Sculpture from Nature
Twining with Soft Natural Materials: On-Demand Basket Weaving Class
February 1, 2024 - December 31, 2034
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Inside this on-demand video course (accessible on any device 24/7/365), learn to harvest materials like foliage, bark and vines from your garden or local forest, prepare and store the natural materials you collect, and weave baskets using a simple, ancient technique called twining.
Information and registration at Matt Tommey – Woven Sculpture from Nature
iNgqikithi yokuPhica / Weaving Meanings: Telephone Wire Art from South Africa
November 17, 2024 - November 17, 2025
Museum of International Fok Art
706 CAMINO LEJO, Santa Fe NM
The spectacular art of telephone wire weaving is the subject of iNgqikithi yokuPhica / Weaving Meanings: Telephone Wire Art from South Africa at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Foregrounding artists’ voices, Weaving Meanings shares histories of the wire medium in South Africa, from the 16th century uses as currency to the dazzling artworks wire weavers create today. From beer pot lids (izimbenge) to platters and plates, from vessels to sculptural assemblages, works in the exhibition speak to the continued development and significance of this artistic tradition, both locally in KwaZulu-Natal and to global markets and audiences.
Weaving Meanings features historical items alongside contemporary works of art, demonstrating individual and community-based ways of making and knowing. Curated in consultation with Indigenous Knowledge experts in broader Nguni and specific Zulu cultures, this exhibition sheds new light on this artistic medium, highlighting the experiences of the artists themselves through videos featuring interviews and the process of creating wirework.
The first major exhibition of telephone wire art in any North American museum, Weaving Meanings features a significant collection generously assembled and generously donated by David Arment and Jim Rimelspach, the David Arment Southern African Collection, IFAF Collection, Museum of International Folk Art. The exhibition is guest curated by Dr. Elizabeth Perrill in collaboration with community curator and lead Indigenous knowledge expert Muziwandile Gigaba.
Chumash Basketry: Art and Life
January 25, 2025 - January 31, 2026
Admire the work of weavers past and present as visitors study the basics of how baskets are made, and grow to recognize the plants that make them possible. Exhibition is ongoing, confirm with museum before visiting.
Information at Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Pursuing our Path of Preservation
May 10, 2025 - November 2, 2025
The Healdsburg Museum and Historical Society
221 MATHESON STREET, Healdsburg CA
The Pomo Weavers Society exhibit includes baskets, artwork, dresses and regalia by local Indigenous artists.
Information at Healdsburg Museum and Historical Society
Basketry Now
July 29, 2025 - October 18, 2025
Textile Center
3000 University Ave SE, Minneapolis MN
Basketry Now 2025 broadly surveys artistic expressions in basketry created by established and emerging artists and makers. The exhibition showcases diverse approaches that demonstrate superior craftsmanship, thoughtful design, and original concepts.
Information at Textile Center
Still
August 1, 2025 - September 20, 2025
108 Contemporary
108 E Reconciliation Way, Tulsa OK
Artists and friends for several decades, Lissa Hunter, Jane Sauer, Jo Stealey and Carol Stein have had many conversations between and among themselves, encompassing a broad range of topics. Out of these virtual conversations, the seed for this exhibition took hold.
Information at 108 Contemporary
Lee Sipe in the Renwick Museum “The State Fair”
August 22, 2025 - September 7, 2026
Renwick Gallery
Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW, Washington D.C.
NBO member Lee Sipe will be exhibiting in this Renwick/Smithsonian museum exhibition. On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the United States in 2026, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery is mounting a major exhibition, tentatively titled The State Fair, to feature the creative contributions of state fairs from the mid-nineteenth century to today.
Information at the Renwick Gallery – Smithsonian Museum
Pat Hickman – Making New
September 6, 2025 - September 28, 2025
Buster Levi Gallery
121 Main Street, Cold Spring NY
NBO member Pat Hickman’s exhibition creates a dialogue between objects, materials and the potential associations and ideas that their combination generates. Though grounded in reality, the work is both intellectually engaging and and transcendent.
Information at Buster Levi Gallery
Annetta Kraayeveld: Diagonal Twill Immersion
September 8, 2025 - September 14, 2025
River’s Bend Ranch
397 Riverbend Road, Stanley VA
A workshop for students who want an intensive study of diagonal twill plaiting with paper.
Information and registration at Shenandoah Creates
Tidal Twinings Retreat
September 10, 2025 - September 14, 2025
Camp Magruder
17450 Old Pacific Hwy, Rockaway Beach Oregon
In addition to a full slate of classes, retreat activities include an attendee gallery show, auction, and a keynote presentation by the year’s featured teacher. Registrants can attend for one to five days. The retreat is flexible and welcoming to weavers of all skill levels.
Information and registration at Columbia Basin Basketry Guild
Cattail Weaving Intensive: Hat, Baskets and More
September 12, 2025 - September 14, 2025
Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts
35 Big Hollow Road, Maplecrest NY
An introduction to several fundamental weaving techniques that utilize cattails including, twining, plaiting, weaving on a mold and hand forming cordage and netting.
Information and registration at Sugar Maples Center for the Creative Arts
Painted Paper Baskets
September 14, 2025 - September 20, 2025
John C. Campbell Folk School
1 Folk School Road, Brasstown NC
Paint, strip, and weave watercolor paper into colorful baskets. Working with wooden molds or by hand, create several baskets in a variety of sizes and shapes.
Information and registration at John C. Campbell Folk School
Char Ciammaichella The Art of Pine Needle Coiling and Cutting a Cabochon!
September 15, 2025 - September 21, 2025
River’s Bend Ranch
397 Riverbend Road, Stanley VA
This class is designed for all levels of coilers with a bonus option to grind, sand and polish your own cabochon for a project center.
Information and registration at Shenandoah Creates
Norwegian Split Willow Basketry Exploration
September 15, 2025 - September 18, 2025
North House Folk School
500 Highway 61 West , Grand Marais MN
In this course, students will explore three different styles of baskets that all come from the valleys of Østerdalen and Gudbrandsdal in eastern Norway, the aktarkorg, skjeppekorg or handlekorg. The weave is quite straightforward and can be varied in many different sizes and shapes. Students can choose to make two smaller projects or one bigger. Hand strength with willow recommended.
Information and registration atNorth House Folk School
National Basketry Gathering 2025
September 18, 2025 - September 22, 2025
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National Basketry Gathering Australia is held every 2 years in a different state.
The next gathering will be held in Tasmania from the 18th-22nd of September 2025.
Medium Egg Basket
September 20, 2025 - September 21, 2025
Chicago Weaving School
4201 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago IL
“Medium” refers to the size. This is a step up from the small ribbed baskets made in the past. The rim is eight inches in diameter.
Information at Chicago Weaving School
The Many Seasons of Summer and Winter
September 20, 2025 - September 21, 2025
Dunwoody Cultural Arts Center
5339 Chamblee Dunwoody Rd, Atlanta GA
This weaving workshop is for advanced beginners and above. Participants must be comfortable reading a draft and setting up their loom. Everyone will bring a pre-warped loom based on instructions provided for the type of loom that they will be using.
Information and registration at CHG Handweavers
White Oak – Tree to Basket
September 21, 2025 - September 27, 2025
John C. Campbell Folk School
1 Folk School Road, Brasstown NC
Learn how to turn a log into ready-to-use weaving materials using various hand tools, then weave a simple basket with your hard-earned materials.
Information and registration at John C. Campbell Folk School
Unique Nantuckets
September 22, 2025 - September 28, 2025
River’s Bend Ranch
397 Riverbend Road, Stanley VA
Students will first weave a 10” Nantucket Tray using hardwood staves and natural cane following traditional techniques. After learning these traditional techniques , learn new and unique designs.
Information and registration at Shenandoah Creates
Co-Creating With Nature
September 25, 2025 - September 28, 2025
Church Street Inn
120 Church St, Natchitoches LA
The NWLA Basket Makers 4th Annual Retreat. Geraldine Zelinsky, Basket Maker and pioneering founder of NWLA Basket
Makers will demonstrate how to process and add natural elements to enhance your pine needle baskets.
For more information and registration details, please email Co-Creating with Nature
Medium Egg Basket
September 27, 2025 - September 28, 2025
Chicago Weaving School
4201 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago IL
“Medium” refers to the size. This is a step up from the small ribbed baskets made in the past. The rim is eight inches in diameter.
Information at Chicago Weaving School
Contemporary Anishinaabe Art: A Continuation
September 28, 2025 - April 5, 2026
Detroit Institute of Arts
5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit MI
One of the largest presentations of contemporary Native American art in the Midwest and the first major Native American exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 30 years, this exhibition challenges perceptions about what Native American art can be, how it should be seen, and how it can be interpreted.
Information and hours at Detroit Institute of Arts
Twist and Twine with Irish Waxed Linen
September 28, 2025 - October 3, 2025
John C. Campbell Folk School
1 Folk School Road, Brasstown NC
Learn to make baskets using 4-ply and 7-ply Irish waxed linen cord. Use beautiful color changes to twine, stack, and spiral.
Information and registration at John C. Campbell Folk School
Articulating Wire Hanging Baskets
October 4, 2025 - October 5, 2025
Peters Valley School of Craft
19 Kuhn Road, Layton NJ
Explore chain making, unique cold connections in wire, properties of mild steel, and low-tech steel finishing treatments.
Information and registration at Peters Valley School of Crafts
Wood Bottom Baskets
October 4, 2025 - October 5, 2025
Peters Valley School of Craft
19 Kuhn Road, Layton NJ
Make 3 baskets of varying sizes, using twining and stop and start techniques with reed and other materials.
Information and registration at Peters Valley School of Crafts
Elizabeth Runyon – Basketry: Basic and Beyond
October 5, 2025 - October 10, 2025
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
556 Parkway, Gatlinburg TN
Start by weaving a traditional Appalachian ribbed egg basket to understand the technique, and then take those skills to the next level by creating sculptural, contemporary forms including a birdhouse and freestyle vase, using reed and seagrass.
Information at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
Meg Kupiec – Weave A Round Basket
October 5, 2025
Create Together At Fletcher Farm
611 Vermont Rt 103 S, Ludlow VT
Learn to twine the bottom, add more spokes, keep the basket shaped correctly, and how to master the triple twine weave that adds color and strength to your basket. Ages 16 and up.
Information and registration at Create Together
Jo Campbell-Amsler: Step By Step Willow Basketry
October 6, 2025 - October 12, 2025
River’s Bend Ranch
397 Riverbend Road, Stanley VA
Rib-style techniques will be the focus for this class, following the designs of many centuries’ old basket styles. Learn about willow as a basket material, making frames for your baskets, and many of the basic techniques used in this style of basket, all while perfecting your skill of weaving.
Information and registration at Shenandoah Creates
Beauty is Resistance: Art as Antidote
October 11, 2025 - October 19, 2025
browngrotta arts
276 Ridgefield Road, Wilton CT
More than two dozen artists, spanning generations, mediums, and geographies will explore the potent role of aesthetic creation—particularly within textile, fiber, and material-based practices — as a form of defiance, cultural preservation, and political voice.
Information at browngrotta arts
April Ogimaakwe Stone: Black Ash – Weaving a Most Useful Handbag Basket
October 12, 2025 - October 17, 2025
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
556 Parkway, Gatlinburg TN
In this workshop, students will develop a deeper understanding of what it takes to retrieve the raw material from a harvested tree, then practice splitting, scraping, and cutting the material with simple tools. Having this knowledge will allow students to prep the material to create a most useful basket for every day needs. Open to all skill levels.
Information and registration at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
Honeysuckle Baskets
October 12, 2025 - October 18, 2025
North House Folk School
500 Highway 61 West , Grand Marais MN
Learn about harvesting, processing, dyeing, and weaving with this traditional Appalachian material to produce beautiful, finely crafted baskets. All levels welcome.
Information and registration at North House Folk School
Association of Michigan Basketmakers Annual Convention
October 15, 2025 - October 19, 2025
Blue Water Convention Center
800 Harker Street, Port Huron Michigan
Annual convention with basket workshops, evening programs, exhibit room awards, silent auction, and marketplace.
Information at Association of Michigan Basketmakers
Willow Basketry
October 16, 2025 - October 19, 2025
Woodspirit School of Traditional Craft
1400 3rd St W, Ashland Wisconsin
Weave your own adventure with buff and white willow. Be challenged at any level–beginners to advanced weavers and learn as many basket designs as you can think of.
Information and registration at Woodspirit School of Craft
Cael Chappell – Twined Rosette Earrings Using Waxed Linen Thread
October 18, 2025 - October 19, 2025
Fiber Arts on 4th
6463 4th Street NW, Los Ranchos NM
Twining and/or Reverse Twining in waxed linen thread to create a pair of earrings. Ability to work small is very good. Size, colors, patterns will vary for each student.
Information at Fiber Arts on Fourth
Registration at Fiber Arts on Fourth Workshops
Barbara Osborne – Agates, Ammonites, Abalone and Pine Needles
October 19, 2025 - October 24, 2025
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
556 Parkway, Gatlinburg TN
Students will begin by learning the attachment technique of the Margarita Stitch harness, then learn different ways to use this harness. Students should have some basic pine needle or other coiling experience.
Information and registration at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
Gourd Basketry
October 19, 2025 - October 24, 2025
John C. Campbell Folk School
1 Folk School Road, Brasstown NC
Use traditional open-coil and twining techniques to transform gourds into beautiful baskets that you can embellish with pine needles, sisal rope, reed, and paper core.
Information and registration at John C. Campbell Folk School
Jo Campbell Amsler – Willow Gathering 2025
October 21, 2025 - October 24, 2025
Sievers School of Fiber Arts
986 Jackson Harbor Rd, Washington Island WI
Weave and share in a beautiful and creative setting – no planned workshops – bring your skills, ideas, inspirations, and give yourself this time to create.
Information at Willow Ridge Baskets
Basket Weaving on Bottles
October 25, 2025 - October 26, 2025
Peters Valley School of Craft
19 Kuhn Road, Layton NJ
Create functional woven pieces of art that can hold liquids. Using upcycled or antique bottles as the base to build on, participants will mainly weave with rattan reed.
Information and registration at Peters Valley School of Craft
Willow Wicker Hamper
October 26, 2025 - November 1, 2025
John C. Campbell Folk School
1 Folk School Road, Brasstown NC
Create a large, willow hamper basket by utilizing multiple weaving techniques–the twine stitch, three rod wale, and English randing.
Information and registration at John C. Campbell Folk School
Peeta Tinay – Round Reed Basketry
October 27, 2025 - November 2, 2025
River’s Bend Ranch
397 Riverbend Road, Stanley VA
Students will make 2 baskets using round reed. These are challenging and rewarding projects for students who want to dive deep and refine their weaving techniques and skills.
Information and registration at Shenandoah Creates
Birch Bark Boxes: Scandinavian Bark Basketry
October 30, 2025 - November 2, 2025
North House Folk School
500 Highway 61 West , Grand Marais MN
In this class, students will make durable, airtight birch bark boxes that are perfect for storage of coffee, tea, spices, or any number of other dry goods.
Information and registration at North House Folk School
Birch Bark Star and Wool Felt Ornaments
November 1, 2025
Woodspirit School of Traditional Craft
1400 3rd St W, Ashland Wisconsin
Make a woven birch bark star ornament with wool pompoms and tassels. Be introduced to a variety of wool felted ornaments with stitched and needle felted decorations.
Information and registration at Woodspirit School of Craft
Jennifer Zurick – Willow Bark Basketry
November 6, 2025 - November 9, 2025
The Woodworking School at Pine Croft
1865 Big Hill Rd., Berea KY/Madison
Introduction to weavers to native black willow bark, a very strong, flexible and beautiful fiber uncommonly used for basketry. Class participants will learn fiber preparation by removing the outer bark layer s of precut strips prior to constructing a small basket.
Information and registration at The Woodworking School at Pine Croft
Basket and Broom Sampler
November 9, 2025 - November 15, 2025
North House Folk School
500 Highway 61 West , Grand Marais MN
Make a cobwebber out of raw broomcorn and a turkey wing or angel whisk from processed broomcorn. Then, weave a melon-style rib basket and a flat reed market basket.
Information and registration at North House Folk School
Barbara Shapiro – Hex weave and Beyond: Creativity in Cane Basketry
November 15, 2025 - November 17, 2025
Brentwood Community Center
2505 S. Brentwood Boulevard, Brentwood MO
Explore a flexible sturdy open weave technique in colorful cane. Class projects include a simple single-weaver hex form to learn the technique and, on day two, a flat bottom traditional basket, and more.
Information and registration at Weavers Guild
Creating with Pine Needles
November 21, 2025 - November 23, 2025
North House Folk School
500 Highway 61 West , Grand Marais MN
Learn how to gather, prepare, and dye pine needles. Use the materials to sample a variety of coiling techniques and styles. Incorporate embellishments and beads into your finished baskets
Information and registration at North House Folk School
Cael Chappell – Twining Baskets: Patterns and Explorations
November 22, 2025
Fiber Arts on 4th
6463 4th Street NW, Los Ranchos NM
Start with making bases, and/or a base will be provided. Choose your thread size based on your skill, speed, and what you want to learn and accomplish. Instruction is individualized.
Information at Fiber Arts on Fourth
Registration at Fiber Arts on Fourth Workshops
Twill and Twine Bark Basketry
December 5, 2025 - December 7, 2025
North House Folk School
500 Highway 61 West , Grand Marais MN
Learn to incorporate both twill and twine weaving techniques into a single, finely woven basket. This class is open to both beginner and more advanced weavers, with opportunities for students to challenge themselves with increasingly difficult techniques as the class progresses.
Information and registration at North House Folk School
Learning to Weave with Willow
December 6, 2025
Cedar Root Folk School
PO Box 253, Griffith Point Road, Nordland WA
Participants will be able to make a variety of woven items, including decorative stars or fish, bird feeders, bowls, etc. Techniques learned are essential building blocks for all other willow basket projects.
Information and registration at Cedar Roots School
Craft Forms 2025
December 7, 2025 - January 24, 2026
Wayne Art Center
413 Maplewood Avenue, Wayne PA 19087, Wayne, PA Pennsylvania
Showcasing works in basketry, ceramics, decorative fiber, furniture, glass, jewelry, leather. metal, mixed media, paper, wearable art, wood and 3-D printing.
Information at Wayne Art Center
Twill Basketry
December 7, 2025 - December 13, 2025
John C. Campbell Folk School
1 Folk School Road, Brasstown NC
Start with a lazy twill and progress as your ability and desire allows. Learn to plan and graph a twill for both continuous weave and start-and-stop weaving.
Information and registration at John C. Campbell Folk School
Vivid
December 8, 2025
Looking for fiber art that exudes feelings, whether it’s a color that does it for you or a distinct memory. All submissions must include a fiber material or textile technique.
Information at Fiber Art Now
Large Birch Basket Tote
December 11, 2025 - December 14, 2025
North House Folk School
500 Highway 61 West , Grand Marais MN
The course will begin by learning about ethical techniques for harvest. Students will then use hand tools to prepare their 1 inch wide bark strips and then weave them into a tote base, measuring roughly 11″ x 4″x 13”.
Information and registration atNorth House Folk School
Excellence in Fibers 10
January 15, 2026 - February 14, 2026
Schack Art Center
2921 Hoyt Avenue, Everett WA
NBO members Annetta Kraayeveld and Dorothy McGuinness are among the exhibiting artists in this 10th Anniversary show.
Information at Schack Art Center
Art Evolved: Intertwined
January 27, 2026 - April 26, 2026
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
565 5th Avenue, Laurel MS
Artists were invited to participate in this conversation between media to illustrate the continuum between beauty and functionality.
This traveling exhibit features member artists from SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) and the National Basketry organization.
Information at Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery
Art Evolved: Intertwined
January 27, 2026 - April 26, 2026
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
565 5th Avenue, Laurel MS
Artists were invited to participate in this conversation between media to illustrate the continuum between beauty and functionality.
This traveling exhibit features member artists from SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) and the National Basketry organization.
Information at Lauren Rogers Museum of Ar
Fiber Reimagined
February 1, 2026 - March 10, 2026
Enter your innovative contemporary art created from fiber and recycled and repurposed mixed media. All submissions must include a fiber material or textile technique.
Information at Fiber Art Now
Opposites Attract
May 1, 2026 - June 8, 2026
Busy and bland? Dark and light? Hard and soft? Enter a unique piece of art that includes fiber or a fiber technique. The entries will be juried by the Fiber Art Now creative team and will be featured in the fall 2026 issue of Fiber Art Now, to be released in early October 2026.
Information at Fiber Art Now
CNCH Conference: Fiber Tales – Down the Rabbit Hole
May 14, 2026 - May 17, 2026
Asilomar
800 Asilomar Ave, Pacific Grove CA
Annual Conference of Northern California Handweavers, featuring workshops and events.
Information and registration at CNCH Conference 2026
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