Friday, June 21, 2013

2013 NBO Conference!

Mark your calendars: the National Basketry Organization's 7th Biennial Conference will be held this year at Arrowmont School of the Arts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, from October 8-13.

The conference will begin on Tuesday, October 8th with a reception at the NBO exhibition "All Things Considered VII". This juried show of member’s work will include both traditional and sculptural basketry by basketmakers throughout the country. Dinner will follow with a keynote address from Nicholas Bell, curator of the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian.

From Wednesday through Friday participants will have a choice of fourteen workshops, including my "Traditional Black Ash Basketry: Tree to Basket" class, which I will be co-teaching with my husband, Steve. In this workshop, students will start with a black ash log, pound it and process it into splint, then weave their own basket.


Along with workshops, participants will have access to Arrowmont's studios, and a number of scheduled evening events including the first airing of NBO’s new documentary on Cherokee basket making families.

You can see more about the conference, and sign up for your workshops here. Membership in NBO is required to attend- so join now and don’t miss a thing. There is still room in my workshop, but spots will fill up quickly!

I am excited to see many of you in October in lovely Tennessee. 
The conference will begin on Tuesday with a reception at the NBO exhibition All Things Considered VII. This juried show of member’s work that will include both traditional and sculptural basketry by basket makers throughout the country. Dinner will follow with a keynote address from Nicholas Bell, curator of the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian.
From Wednesday through Friday participants will have a choice of fourteen workshops including:

JoAnn Kelly Catsos and Steve Catso
Traditional Black Ash Basketry: From Tree to Basket
John Garrett
Working with Wire and Recycled Materials
Pamela Becker
Perfect for Patterns: Closed Coiling
Donna Sakamoto Crispin
Inspired by Japan
Lissa Hunter
Building a Better Basket
Katherine Lewis
Scalloming and Fitching with Willow
Marlene Liddle
Haida Red Cedar Hat: Lady’s Cloche
Nathalie Miebach
Bits and Pieces: The Lego approach to Basket Weaving
Ann Coddington Rast
Twined Forms: Concept and Construction
Nadine Spier
Pine Needles: Plain and Fancy
Dawn Walden
Contemporary Cedar Bark
Don Weeke
Begin with a Gourd
Jennifer Heller Zurick
Weaving with Willow Bark

Studios will be open for evening use, or participants can attend a number of scheduled evening events including the first airing of NBO’s new documentary on Cherokee basket making families.

Friday evening we will celebrate with our gala and auctions, both live and silent to raise funds for the NBO Scholarship Fund.

On Saturday, participants will choose from an array of activities and short workshops ranging from “basket-bombing” trees to learning how to use social media to promote your work to technique demonstrations.

That evening NBO will present its first Lifetime Achievement Award.

Full details will be published in the Winter Quarterly Review and on this website in January 2013. Membership in NBO is required to attend. So join now and don’t miss a thing.

Registration will be limited and classes will be filled on a first-come basis except for members whose membership level includes priority registration.

Several scholarships are available for this conference including an opportunity for a mentor and mentee to attend a workshop together and a fund spe - See more at: http://nationalbasketry.org/events-calendar/#sthash.U565MXA5.dpuf
The conference will begin on Tuesday with a reception at the NBO exhibition All Things Considered VII. This juried show of member’s work that will include both traditional and sculptural basketry by basket makers throughout the country. Dinner will follow with a keynote address from Nicholas Bell, curator of the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian.
From Wednesday through Friday participants will have a choice of fourteen workshops including:

JoAnn Kelly Catsos and Steve Catso
Traditional Black Ash Basketry: From Tree to Basket
John Garrett
Working with Wire and Recycled Materials
Pamela Becker
Perfect for Patterns: Closed Coiling
Donna Sakamoto Crispin
Inspired by Japan
Lissa Hunter
Building a Better Basket
Katherine Lewis
Scalloming and Fitching with Willow
Marlene Liddle
Haida Red Cedar Hat: Lady’s Cloche
Nathalie Miebach
Bits and Pieces: The Lego approach to Basket Weaving
Ann Coddington Rast
Twined Forms: Concept and Construction
Nadine Spier
Pine Needles: Plain and Fancy
Dawn Walden
Contemporary Cedar Bark
Don Weeke
Begin with a Gourd
Jennifer Heller Zurick
Weaving with Willow Bark

Studios will be open for evening use, or participants can attend a number of scheduled evening events including the first airing of NBO’s new documentary on Cherokee basket making families.

Friday evening we will celebrate with our gala and auctions, both live and silent to raise funds for the NBO Scholarship Fund.

On Saturday, participants will choose from an array of activities and short workshops ranging from “basket-bombing” trees to learning how to use social media to promote your work to technique demonstrations.

That evening NBO will present its first Lifetime Achievement Award.

Full details will be published in the Winter Quarterly Review and on this website in January 2013. Membership in NBO is required to attend. So join now and don’t miss a thing.

Registration will be limited and classes will be filled on a first-come basis except for members whose membership level includes priority registration.

Several scholarships are available for this conference including an opportunity for a mentor and mentee to attend a workshop together and a fund spe - See more at: http://nationalbasketry.org/events-calendar/#sthash.U565MXA5.dpuf

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