Detailed Information Pages for Teacher Workshops, NBO Conference 2027
It started with a pine needle basket woven of white pine needles in June of 1994 at the SCJ Lighthouse resort. Francis Whitfield was the native instructor for the resort that year. Pam has since traveled to Thailand with the Royalwood tour and has made 13 trips to Alaska since 1998, to learn Pine Needle […]
I create sculptural baskets made of inner bark, wood splints or grasses with soothing, organic shapes and sturdy walls of weaving. I have always felt, since that first basket, that the reason that I love to make them is the magic that happens within me when the rhythm of the stroke is felt. It is
Instructor: Sandra Kehoe Materials Fee: $150 Students will learn about the process of making white willow and utilizing the braked bark in a frame style basket. Processing white willow by hand using a brake is a laborious task that can only be accomplished in early Spring. Since braked bark is the by-product of processing white
Instructor: Pamela Hermann Materials Fee: $255 Students may choose to create a sampler canister for holding pine needles (lid may be added) or a lidded basket of their own design. Or both if time allows. Beautiful, footed hardwood bases will be options for starting the coiled baskets or for use in completing the lids. Students
Instructor: Norman Sherfield Materials Fee: $30 Four non-stop days of knotting fun. Beginners will start with covering a 4” diameter foam ball. The class will teach the basics of waxed linen knotting. You will learn how to start a piece, how to add waxed linen, how to knot in different directions, how to end a
Instructor: Karen Tembruell Materials Fee: $285 We will explore two different triple wall techniques using teacher harvested and prepared barks. Class will begin with a session of botanical printing with leaves on birch bark. While the prints are steaming, a Pacific Northwest triple-wall technique will be taught with finely split cedar bark and willow bark,
Instructor: Jo Stealey Materials Fee: $40 (May be additional cost for special papers, if used) Basketry techniques are the foundation for many sculptural works. This workshop will expand your creativity while exploring a variety of twining and lashing techniques with flat & round reed. The forms developed will be utilized to create unique armatures for
Instructor: Jessica Beels Materials Fee: $75 The workshop will explore the wire looping technique that Ruth Asawa learned in Mexico and used for her iconic sculptures. The purpose of this workshop is not to recreate Asawa’s work, but rather to use what we can learn from her forms to extrapolate in new directions and push
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Instructor: Jennifer Zurick Materials Fee: $190 This class will introduce weavers to native black willow bark, a very strong, flexible and beautiful fiber uncommonly used for basketry. Students will work with the inner bark, weaving spokes on the diagonal split from a simple “pinwheel” constructed base. The fineness of the weave students wish to attain
Instructor: Dianne Stanton Materials Fee: $155 Explore the interplay of form, material and the method of making baskets with elm bark and sweetgrass. Start by learning to clean, divide and cut elm bark from harvested strips, while discussing the harvest and preparation of both sweet grass and elm bark. Using the bark that you have
