Each year for the past fifteen, I've had the privilege of spending two intensive weeks teaching the craft of weaving with plant fibers, to young people with wildly diverse backgrounds, between the ages of 8 and 14. As an Artist in Residence at IslandWood, an environmental education campus on Bainbridge Island, just a ferry ride across the water … [Read more...]
Some Images of Winter Work
What is it? It is Pacific Madrona bark. My first chance to work with it was this summer after we had to cut down a beautiful old, but injured tree, that happened to be precariously leaning over our old house. The only other sculptural basketry in Madrona I'd ever seen before was made by Canadian artist Joan Carrigan, who is my total … [Read more...]
