Kay conducts a series of three creative workshops in which you will begin with a simple project using easily learned techniques that will provide you with a solid foundation from which to create more complex projects. Students are encouraged to register for all three of Kay’s Saturday workshops which are scheduled for January 20th, February 3rd, and February 17th. Registration for each workshop is $40.
Each workshop, which is taught at the historic Carriage House Studio at The Villa Serena Inn, runs from 10:00am to 1:00pm In this, the third of three workshops with Kay Johnson, you will create a decorative, functional and beautiful CHINESE BASKET . You will have a choice of colors to use in your project. All materials will be supplied by the teacher.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
In 1989, Kay signed up for a basket class and has been hopelessly hooked since. She and 37 other basket weaving enthusiasts helped start Lake Country Basket Guild which grew to over 350 members. She has traveled to basket making conventions all over the Midwest and studied with some of the very best teachers in the country. Every civilization from the beginning of time had basket weaving. They used local materials, like wicker, willow, sweetgrass, pine needles, Birch bark, and reed. Patterns and techniques have been passed down from generation to generation and brought from the old world to the new world centuries ago. Indigenous American Indian patterns and colors are unique by tribe and have had a great influence on basket patterns woven in America. Experts can look at a basket and tell if it’s Hopi, or Aztec, or African, or 1000 BC Italian, and more.
