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Canceled by Sybil via email on 4/24-tt

This workshop will give you the opportunity to work with natural materials of the Pacific Northwest to make a unique basket using the skip stitch twining technique.

Using Western Red Cedar bark as the structure, this basket will be twined with NW Sweetgrass, using a skip stitch technique.  Overlays of Cedar bark will accent the surface and will undulate from the tension of the twining.  The workshop will include a discussion on how to prepare Cedar bark.

Students should bring:

• An old towel
• Comfortable clothes that you won't mind getting dirty.
• Bring a bag lunch. We have a refrigerator for people to store their lunches and drinks!

Details:

• Please note for this class, cancellation requests received 14 days or less before the workshop start date will not be eligible for a refund or credit.
• There is a Materials fee of $105.  Materials include cedar bark, sweet grass, written instructions and other miscellaneous materials.
• Tuition assistance is available. Click here to apply. 
  
• Skill Level:  Universal.  All skill levels welcome.
• Ages 14+ Welcome.

• For getting to BARN download this helpful printable document by clicking here: Getting to BARN.

Instructor Bio:
Polly Adams Sutton is a Seattle artist. Her educational background was art with an emphasis on painting and printmaking. Once settled in the Pacific Northwest she was introduced to basketry through the Seattle Weaver’s Guild. It has been her practicing art 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. Her work is exhibited in galleries nationwide, and she has been recipient of many awards in juried exhibits, and 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. Her piece is also on the cover of the book “500 Baskets”.