January 2009 - Northwest Basket Weavers

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December Greetings from JackieAbrams!For several years now, I have been working in Africa,helping to develop craft industries. Just this week Ireturned from my third trip this year, this time tonorthern Ghana and Uganda. You can read moreabout these travels on my website:http://www.jackieabrams.com/africa.html.This work seems important, and I am rethinking myplans for 2009.I will continue to teach. I enjoy it, and it helps to paythe bills. I will not be participating in any craft shows,only in much smaller gallery and museum exhibitions.My time in the studio will be spent exploring some newtechniques, influenced by the women I meet and workwith in Africa.While refocusing, I will be clearing out both my studioand my website. All work is 30% off the listed price.40% off for two or more pieces. This does not apply tospecial orders. If the piece is over $100, shipping isincluded. Please call or e-mail about the availability ofany piece that interests you.I wish you all a happy and healthy 2009!Jackie Abrams21 Howard StreetBrattleboro, VT 05301802-257-2688jackieabrams@verizon.netwww.jackieabrams.comNative Women Artists Featured atAnnual Museum GatheringJanuary 24, 2009, La ConnerLa Conner, WA – Nine distinguished artists from sevenPacific Northwest tribal communities from Oregon toAlaska will be featured at “Qwu?qwsa - A Gathering ofNative Women Artists: Celebrating Old & New Traditions”on Saturday, January 24, from 11 am to 4 pm, at theSkagit County Historical Museum.Throughout the day, the artists will demonstrate and discusstraditional and contemporary forms of weaving, basketmaking, quilting, fiber arts, pottery and beading. A paneldiscussion at 2 pm will focus on the role of women in therevival of traditional native art, the adaptation of traditionsto contemporary life and the challenges for passing on thesetraditions. The artists’ works will be available for purchase.The following distinguished artists will participate:Sharon Akers, Omaha, has been beading for many years.She does beadwork and makes dance regalia for her family.Northwest Basket Weavers/Vi Phillips Basketry GuildJanuary 2009Ms. Akers is accomplished in several different styles ofbeading and especially enjoys creating bags. Appropriately,her Native name, Haa Wate’, means “leather dress.”Bernyce K. Courtney, of Wasco Tlingit heritage,expresses her traditions in quilting and has had her quilts onexhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of theAmerican Indian.Chloe French is a member of the Tlingit Killerwhale clan.Since retiring to Bellingham after teaching for many yearsin California, she has concentrated on Chilkat weaving, andis focusing now on completing a full-size Chilkat robe. Ms.French weaves hats and blankets, spinning her own warp onher thigh, the Tlingit way. She also creates traditionalbutton robes and beaded necklaces and gives instruction inChilkat weaving and button robe making.Pat Courtney Gold, Wasco, is a featured basket weaver inthe PBS series, “Craft in America” and the traveling exhibit.She is also co-producer and director of documentary film,“Northwest Native Elder Basketweavers, Honoring OurHeritage.” She helped revive the art of Wasco basketweaving with its geometric images and motifs. Ms. Goldreceived a National Endowment for the Arts HeritageFellowship in 2007 and the 2001 Oregon Governor’s ArtsAward. Her work has been exhibited nationally andinternationally.Fran James is an honored Lummi basket maker. Fran wasraised by her grandmother on an island where they raised500 head of sheep. She learned to gather traditional basketrymaterials, spin and knit from her grandmother at the age ofnine. Ms. James and her son, Bill James, have beeninstrumental in reviving and continuing the traditionalweaving and basketry skills of the Lummi people.Betty Pasco, a Suquamish tribal member, works intraditional Coast Salish basketry as well as traditional Salishwool weaving. She has been instrumental in helping torevive these art forms and teaches her skills to Suquamishgirls.Lillian Pitt, from the Columbia River Gorge, is known as agreat innovator within her tradition. She works in a widevariety of materials including clay -- using the Asian rakuand anagama techniques – along with bronze and preciousmetals, and mixes media and technologies from around theglobe. Ms. Pitt’s art has been exhibited in Europe, NewZealand, Japan and the U.S. including the Burke Museumand Heard Museum.Lisa Telford is both a master Haida basket weaver andtraditional cedar bark garment and ceremonial hat maker.Her award-winning work incorporates both contemporaryand traditional methods of weaving including twining andplaiting. Lisa’s dedication to educating and preserving herculture helps to protect the disappearing traditional Haidaart forms. Her baskets can be seen in the collections of TheOregon Historical Society, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, The
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, TheHeard Museum, The Portland Art Museum and The BurkeMuseum.Lois Chichinoff Thadei is a fourth-generation Aleut artist.She is an accomplished weaver, using indigenous wildmaterials, a potter and paper artist. She teaches traditionalweaving and Native American art history. Ms. Thadei wasthe recipient of the prestigious Artist Trust GAP Award andthe First Peoples Fund Cultural Capital Fellowship in 2007and the First Peoples Community Spirit Award in 2006among others. She has exhibited her work nationally andinternationally including the National Centre forContemporary Art in Russia, the Squaxin Island TribeMuseum, the Burke Museum and the Washington StateLieutenant Governor's Invitational Art Show.Admission: Adults: $4; Seniors & Children 6-12: $3;Families: $8; Children under 6 and Museum Members:Free. The Skagit County Historical Museum is located at501 S. 4th Street, at the top of the hill in La Conner. Formore information, call 360-466-3365 or visitwww.skagitcounty.net/museum.Guild Member Class Listings for Winter 2009Send class notices to both newsletter editors Mary Auld at: maryauld@comcast.net andLouie Shellenberger at: louie@whidbey.comDates Instructor Class Cost Location Information1/05/09,1/12/09,1/26/092/02/09,2/09/09,2/25/093/02/09,3/09/09,3/16/094/06/09,4/13/09,4/20/09Sally Anaya Northwest Braids Tukwila Parks & Rec 425-271-0647 home253-318-9462 cellSally AnayaSally AnayaSally AnayaTi-TwinedSimplicityCedar Star ‘n’BulrushCherokee TwillBowlJanuary 17 Sue Marvin Gourd with PineNeedle/ TeneriffeLidJanuary 24 Sue Marvin Small Cedar andDyed Cedar TwillTrayFebruary 21 Sue Marvin Cedar and AshPine Cone BasketTukwila Parks & RecTukwila Parks & RecTukwila Parks & Rec$88 The WeavingWorksPacific NW NeedleArts Guild$90 The WeavingWorks425-271-0647 home253-318-9462 cell425-271-0647 home253-318-9462 cell425-271-0647 home253-318-9462 cell206-524-1221Contact Marilyn @206-363-6077206-524-1221VariesMarcyJohnsonAppalachian,Wicker,PapermakingClasses and costs vary, taughtat my studio on WhidbeyIsland360-331-2660marcyjohnson@whidbey.netVariesCarol WilliamsClasses and costsvaryIf you have a room at yourhome or place of business fora group of 5-8 and want tolearn how to make a basket,call me206-938-2745Make Baskets in Alaska for 11 daysContact Jeannie McFarland for 2009 datesJim & Jeannie McFarlandMcFarland's FLOATELPO Box 19149Thorne Bay, AK 999191-888-828-3335www.mcfarland'sfloatel.comwww.basketsandbullets.comfloatel@starband.netNorthwest Basket Weavers/Vi Phillips Basketry GuildJanuary 2009
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