I offer many different workshops, as you will see. Times vary from two hours for a small garlic basket, to several days for the complete "Tools for Transformation" series. The normal time is one or two days.
All of the classes are geared toward beginning to intermediate weavers.
Workshop and materials fees vary. Please contact me if you have a specific class in mind. For workshops outside the Reno/Sparks Carson City area, I charge 40.5 cents per mile.
If you want to try making a basket, open the “Boat Basket” file and give it a try!

Upcoming Workshops

SoulCollage workshop will be Saturday, July 19, 2008 from 10-2. More info coming soon.

Saturday Oct. 18, 2008: 10-2, Contemporary Appalachian Egg Basket. Sky Peaks Community Room, Sky Valley Drive. A Great Basin Basketmakers workshop. For more information, e-mail me or go to greatbasinbasketmakers.org.

Other Available Workshops
Please click on any following workshop for more information.

Appalachian Style Baskets
In the old country, baskets were purchased from a professional basket weaver, but in the New World, settlers had to learn the techniques themselves, and baskets were a necessity. With the help of Native people, settlers experimented with wild vines and bushes and hardwood trees. more»

Be a True Original
In a world exploding with art, it's not always easy to be an original. How do you make art that reflects your own inner vision? more»

Boat Basket
Make a charming little Boat Basket out of 12 pieces of flat material—reed, yucca, paper splint, stiff ribbon, etc. Download this PDF for complete instructions.

Branch Basket
Pull the beauty of nature into your creative basketmaking. Bring curvy or straight branches or choose from a class assortment and learn how a simple branch can help you tell the story of your basket. more»

Burden Basket
Learn how to make a contemporary Burden Basket, using the twining technique, in this special one-day workshop for beginning and intermediate basketmakers. more»

Cardweaving for Baskets, Gourds, or You
Create a magical cardwoven band, a dynamic focal point for your basket, gourd, hat, or body. Cardweaving is an ancient craft in which simple cards--either purchased or handmade--are threaded and turned to create a design of your choice. more»

Cherokee Wall Pouch
Learn to make this wall basket, said to be traditional with the Cherokee people. Made by them with willow or honeysuckle, each round is woven with a wish for health, happiness, long life and good fortune. more»

Constructed Basket
What kind of basket would you make if you didn’t know how to make one? What kind of shape would you like to try if the basket goddess said it was OK to make any shape you wanted? more»

Contemporary Plaiting: The Plaited Basket
Plaiting, which is in-and-out weaving, is so simple you can see why they call basketmakers “Basket Cases”! You’ll discover the benefit of plaiting as you weave up the sides of your basket, for this is the technique that causes you to focus on your hands, your basket, your mind, it’s like a meditation. more»

Contemporary Twined Basket
Learn how to make a contemporary basket using the twining technique, said to be the world’s oldest basketry technique. Knowledge of this basic yet versatile approach gives you a foundation for making a wide variety of baskets. more»

Creative Baskets
Baskets can be created to express specific thoughts and ideas. Exploring creativity exercises, students will use Sculpey clay to develop several designs, and from this experience choose one or more of these to create a personalized container, choosing from a wide variety of materials supplied by instructor. more»

Fiber Constructions
Artists and craftspersons who work in two- and three-dimensional media of all kinds will discover techniques and ideas for developing their own work in new ways, as they have fun exploring the potential of fiber as sculpture. more»

Japanese Packaging
This type of packaging, much of which originated in rural areas, is a part of Japan’s cultural heritage. It cannot be mass produced and for this reason is a disappearing tradition. But it imbues a love of spiritual things, a love that lovers of the handmade object make haste to reclaim. more»

Marketing your Art
There’s a saying, “You have to have your bags packed when opportunity knocks on the door.” This workshop tells you how to pack your bags---how to make it easy for other people to like and want your work. more»

May Basket
There is an old May Day custom of making baskets, and on May 1 filling them with spring flowers, candies, or other good things, hanging them on the doors of friends, neighbors, or even strangers, then ringing the doorbell and running away. more»

Never-Ending Basket plus one
Students create a plaited basket which I call the “Never-Ending Basket” because it is woven spiral-like in a Maori technique. You continue or stop wherever. more»

Personalization Workshop “Yourself As Source”
This workshop is designed to give each individual ideas for coming up with their own personal processes and symbols. Through the use of collage, meditation, playing with texture, written questions, and other exercises, people will circle their own wagons, so to speak, as they begin to define the art they are destined to create. more»

Quick Baskets
Sample several quick style baskets from a simple desk basket to a cheery heart basket. This workshop teaches you to make six different baskets. more»

Random Weave Basket
Beginners and Intermediate basket artists have fun creating a basket randomly, letting the swirls of the willow and vine create the design, line by line. Choose a shape and begin to build your container. more»

The Treasure Pouch
The miniature Indian Treasure pouch will hold those special small treasures safe in pocket, purse or around your neck. Students will make them using the twining technique, said to be the oldest basketmaking technique in the world. more»

Tools For Transformation
In these workshops, artists and non-artists journey to the center of their own creative source and, using a variety of media and techniques, develop personal objects that will be permanent reminders of their discoveries to take with them out into the world. more»

Group Presentations
In my role as teacher at the National Judicial College and as guest speaker for various organizations, I have developed some talks on a variety of subjects. These include:

1. Your Creative Fire and how to access it
2. Contemporary Basketry – a slide presentation
3. The History and Tradition of Basketry in the U.S.
4. Marketing your Art
5. Weavers of Tradition and Beauty – the Story of Native Basketweavers in the Great Basin. Presented in conjunction with members of the Great Basin Native American Basketweavers Assn.
6. How to write an Artist Statement and Artist Resume