Attend one or both days!

Day 1: Friday - March 10, 2023 | 9am-4pm 

Day 2: Saturday - March 11, 2023 | 9am-4pm

Nantucket Style Baskets and More!

Kathy started weaving in a local class while living in South Carolina, and very quickly fell in love with basketry. She quickly expanded her education while in Japan on deployment with her husband and sons; she was invited to study with local master weavers and soon began actively teaching classes.

Kathy is influenced by her love and intricacy of Japanese basketry as well as the beauty, tradition and usefulness of Nantucket and Shaker basketry. She has and continues to exhibit in shows across the Northeastern United States, both group and juried art exhibits and teaches in Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina.

Basket Descriptions and Skill Level - BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE.

March 20-26, 2023

Black Ash Basketry with JoAnn Kelly Catsos

Instructor JoAnn Kelly Catsos is an award-winning traditional black ash splint basketmaker and teacher from Ashley Falls, Massachusetts. Her work is influenced by traditional Shaker and native New England basket styles. The clean forms have remained, but over the course of her 35 year career her baskets have evolved into smaller, more finely woven intricately patterned vessels.

To obtain the symmetry she desires, each basket is woven over a wooden form, or mold, that is removed once the weaving is completed. JoAnn’s husband, Steve, harvests the black ash trees near their home in the Berkshire Mountains of MA, processes the logs into splint, and together they make the wooden molds, handles and rims needed for each basket.

JoAnn exhibits nationally and teaches her basketry workshops at art and craft schools, conferences and for private groups. Her baskets have been featured in a number of books and magazines, and graced the cover of the Crafts Report magazine in October 2012. She is the recipient of the Certificate of Excellence in Basketmaking: level I from the Handweavers Guild of America. Her baskets are in private and public collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

JoAnn Kelly Catsos' Website

Basket Descriptions and Skill Level - INTERMEDIATE and ABOVE

Students will have the unique opportunity to choose their own projects. Weave a quintessential cathead - the Classic Cat and chase weave (just like the Shakers), become intrigued by the ‘octofoil’ twill in JoAnn’s original Snowflake Bowl, create a Berkshire Back Pack which is the right size for displaying your business cards, or another basket from JoAnn’s website. Each basket will be made of precisely prepared black ash splint that is made by JoAnn’s husband, Steve, and woven over a wooden mold to ensure the perfect shape. 

April 17-23, 2023

Diagonal Twill Immersion

Instructor Annetta Kraayeveld can’t remember a time when she was not making something. “I am a maker. In the early 1990's, I discovered basket weaving after stumbling upon a book and begging for a lesson. I quickly began making baskets, experimenting, and teaching basketry.”Since 2000, she has been teaching at guilds and basketry events across North America. Her work has received numerous awards and has been exhibited across the country. In 2020, she joined the board of the National Basketry Organization; Annetta currently serves as president of NBO. Baskets, their history and cultural reach, the variety of techniques, and the limitless creative possibilities, motivate her to weave. As a teacher, her focus is on mastery, basketry techniques and stretching perceived limits. As a maker, her work is somewhere between traditional and contemporary.

Basket Descriptions and Skill Level - INTERMEDIATE

This workshop is set up for students who want to learn how to paint and prepare paper for weaving and immerse themselves in Diagonal Twills and Paper Weaving.

If they choose, students will be able to paint and cut two large sheets of watercolor paper to prepare them for weaving.  This part of the class will take place during the first two mornings of the workshop.  The weaving part of the workshop will begin with Diagonal Twill Basics, everyone will weave two baskets simultaneously as we explore the foundations of Diagonal Twill Plaiting. After that, students will work at their own pace. The instructor will help students choose projects that help them build their skills and confidence throughout the week. Students can choose projects to explore pattern and color use as well as shaping and corners.

Baskets (prepared kits) offered in the workshop will include: Diagonal Basics (day one), Houndstooth, Buttons and Scraps, Footed Bowl, Recursion (nesting baskets), Ginger Pot, Parallel Pouches, Vijf, Plaid Button Up, and Paper Envelopes. 

In this workshop students will weave at their own pace, choosing from a number of paper projects offered by the instructor. Most projects will take the full day, though some will only take a few hours. A tally of material costs will be tallied through the workshop and accounts settled at the end. 

March 27-April 2, 2023 and April 24-30, 2023

Basketry with Anne Bowers

Anne is from the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia where she works in her studio designing and teaching baskets. She was a production basket maker for many years, and she brings those skills into each basket that she teaches. Ribbed basketry is her specialty, and some of her baskets have taken on a sculptural perspective in recent years. Anne has participated in many basketry exhibits and shows and has won many awards for her work.

She produced baskets on huge moose antlers to be used by a floral designer for the Philadelphia Flower Show. She is a member of the National Basketry Organization. She has taught on 3 basketry cruises, teaches basketry widely and lectures about the woven form.

This coming fall will mark her 33rd year of participation in the annual Over the Mountain Studio Tour. Her goal is to make each student’s class a successful one.

Anne Bowers Website and Book

Basket Descriptions and Skill Level - INTERMEDIATE - ADVANCED

Herb Basket - A classic basket from the Appalachian area, learn how to make a bowtie, sight/whittle/insert both primary and secondary ribs and learn how to neatly decrease for a successful conclusion to the weaving.

Hen Basket on a Stick – The class will start class with an interesting stick that has been predrilled for the ribs that make the framework .

Double Wall Seagrass Basket - This Double Walled basket has a twill base woven in smoked and natural reed. The inside wall is reed, the outside wall is woven with seagrass.

Butternut Squash - Weave a god’s eye; sight and whittle and insert primary and secondary ribs; use color and texture and shape.

Lightening Biscuit Basket - Ash bases that have been electrified by my friend, Mr. Ridgeway, to make each base special and unique. The dyed black cane spokes and brown weavers highlight the base colors and leather side handles. The rim is lashed with waxed linen, dyed rim filler.

Jewel Toned Yarn Basket - 15” X 10” oval hoops or the larger size 22” X 12” oval hoops. Learn how to change colors within the god’s eyes, sight both primary and secondary ribs, make invisible color changes, wrap hand grips and weave to a successful conclusion. Use more than 20 colors of reed, dyed ribs and seagrass.