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by Therese Fisher	Events in the Community Classes, exhibits, and basketry-related events of interest.
March 26-30, 2008 Spring Retreat- hosted by our sister guild, the Northwest Basket Weavers Vi Phillips Basketry Guild. July 14 - 21, 2008 Weaving Techniques for Basketry and Jewelry - taught by Donna Sakamoto Crispin Ghost Ranch Conference Center Registration fee: $290 ($40 lab fee included) + housing & meals / Commuter fee: $290 ($40 lab fee included--no meals included) After May 1: $390 + housing & meals / $390 Learn how to make a basket, and then transfer your new skills to woven jewelry. We will start out making a plaited and twined bark basket, and then apply the same methods to making a personal treasure pouch and a woven wire copper bracelet. Participants experience the ancient Japanese craft of kumihimo to make a colorful, textured cord which can be made into a necklace or several bracelets. If time permits, other wire projects will be introduced, such as random weaving, knotless netting, and woven wire end caps. Intermediate students will be accommodated. July 14 - 20, 2008 Coil Baskets to Sculpture - taught by Aimee Yogi Ghost Ranch Conference Center Registration fee: $290 (includes $40 lab fee) + housing & meals / Commuter fee: $290 (no meals included) After May 1: $390 + housing & meals / $390 Take one of the oldest forms of basketry into contemporary sculpture. If we look back, we can find its origins in the masks of Africa or the Yam culture of New Guinea. Coil basket uses range from the mundane to the cosmic. We start with basic coiling and expand into shaping techniques. Using sisal rope and raffia, "speed coiling" will be taught so students can begin to design their own pieces. Students will complete a sampler basket and move on to more sculptural pieces. We start at the same place, but each will realize different results. There will be a papermaking session. Common Rush (Juncus) pulp will be supplied and students will pull sheets of paper. These will be used later to cover their pieces. Additional commercially available handmade papers will be on hand. Add embellishments, surface media (paints, papers, etc.), wrapping and knotting to the basket. Seeds, beads, stones may be attached as a focal point. The instructor will provide some; students may bring their own favorite beads, stones, or talisman. Colorful wrapping and decorative knotting add interest. Yarns and threads will be available. Insertions between the coils are just the beginning of thinking "outside the basket." Ongoing Cathlapotle Plankhouse Project A full- scale Chinook style Plankhouse is being built on the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge, in Ridgefield, Washington (about 30 miles north of Portland). Volunteers are being trained in traditional construction methods in order to furnish house. The following classes have been offered and will be offered again: Plaiting, basketmaking, cordage, cattail tool making ( needle and creaser), cattail mat making, flintnapping, wedge and maul. Check their web site for more information on the exciting project: www.plankhouse.org
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