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Polly Adams Sutton’s award-winning basketry is prized by collectors all around the world. During this two day workshop, Polly will share her techniques for creating sculptural basketry using wire and dyed Hamburg cane over cedar bark spokes. You will make small asymmetrical baskets twined with two methods of Xs. You will finish with a round of tortoise shell cane and a folded border.

Materials fee covers supplies. 

Details: 

• Skill Level:  All-Levels/Beginning.
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• Feel free to bring a lunch. BARN has a refrigerator and microwave in the kitchen on the lower level. 
  
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Instructor Bio:

Polly Adams Sutton is a Seattle artist. Her educational background is in Fine Art with an emphasis on painting and printmaking.  Once settled in the Pacific Northwest, 40 years ago, she was introduced to basketry through the Seattle Weaver’s Guild.  Basketry has been her art practice ever since.  She harvests cedar bark each spring in logging areas throughout Washington.  Her sculptural work is primarily twined, although she experiments with wire as a woven element in her asymmetrical shapes.  Polly’s work has won numerous awards and is exhibited in galleries nationwide.  She was awarded an artist project grant in 2012 through the City of Seattle, to experiment with invasive vines in her work.  She also received an Artist Trusts GAP Grant which she used in conjunction with a Seattle Weavers Guild Grant for investigating the basketry of Sardinia. One of  her pieces is on the cover of the book “500 Baskets”.