Los Angeles Basketry Guild Annual Retreat
Camp Stevens -- March 14 – 16, 2008
Cost $275 for members, $295 for non-members
Garden Goddess and Random Vine Weaving with Mary Hettmansperger
Using vine rattan, willow, and found wood, students will create
a figurative garden god or goddess to either put in your garden or add to
your home. The piece is random woven with a wire base for stability and will be
completed in the first day. These are large in size, 3 feet, and come
with a metal rod to make them stand in your garden. On the second day
students have the option of making another goddess or a random woven basket, wall piece, or other figure. Recycled materials, other naturals, and
embellishments can also be added. This is a creative, fast-paced class. Each
piece will be one of a kind. All levels. Materials fee: $65.
Washo Burden Basket (Small Version) with Sue Coleman
Students will learn to use prepared willow and make a small
willow burden basket used in harvesting pine nuts and acorn, taught by a
Native American basket artist. The willow has been hand-split into three
sections (with teeth!), which takes many long hours to prepare. Intermediate
level.Materials fee: $80
Sculptural Twining with Polly Giacchina
Discover the endless possibilities that the basketry technique
of twining can offer. Push yourself to start in a new direction with a
three dimensional woven piece that gives you the permission to
experiment. You can add, twist, turn and weave in multiple directions to
concentrate on form and shape. Some twining knowledge is helpful, but not
necessary. Simple materials will be supplied but the student can bring and explore any pliable weaving material. All levels. Material fee: To be announced
To reserve, send a $50 non-refundable deposit (payable to LABG),
indicating your first, second, and third choice of class, to
Judy
Robelotto 18007 Regina Ave. Torrance, CA 90504.
Non-member cost includes a two year membership to the guild.
Field Trip--April 13, 2008
Leah Danberg: Join us for a L.A. Basketry Guild field trip to see Contemporary Katagami: Works by Jennifer Falck Linssen, on Sunday, April 13. Inspired by the delicacy of nature and the beauty of line, Jennifer Falck Linssen utilizes the ancient Japanese art of katagami to create elegant, hand-carved vessels and baskets. The artist was featured in the latest edition of the NBO Newsletter. Meet us at 12:30 pm at the Craft and Folk Art Museum, which is located at 5814 Wilshire Blvd. Cost is $10 per person. Please RSVP to Suzye Ogawa at Suzye@adelphia.net or 310-392-7385. Visit the Craft and Folk Art Museum website at www.cafam.org
2007 Retreat
Los Angeles Basketry Guild Annual Retreat
March 30, 31 and April 1, 2007
Camp Stevens, Julian, California
CLASSES:
Leaves with Marilyn Moore
Using Marilyn’s unique method of color blending, you will use copper wire for spokes to explore the use of fine colored wires as a twining material. Choose the Gingko or Maple Leaf. Your leaf will glow when the light hits it. If desired, you can twine in a sterling silver pin and this will turn your leaf into a brooch. Twining skill is useful. Level: Beginning and Intermediate
Materials Fee: $48.00 which includes wires as prepared spokes, 3 spools of wire, 3 E-Z Bob spools, silver pin,and instruction sheet.
Marilyn Moore has won numerous awards. Her work has been exhibited nationally and in numerous prestigious collections. She is widely published and is nationally recognized and sought for her teaching expertise.
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California Dreaming: a freeform, undulating tower with Willie Ziegler
Students will use hand split bamboo spokes and 2 sizes of cane triple twined in chase. The top and bottom are finished with root. Level: Intermediate Materials Fee: $45.00 and includes bamboo, cane and root.
Willie Ziegler began making baskets in 1969. Prior to this she was a physical therapist for 40 years and an avid outdoors person and weaver. She became a basket class junkie who still continues to spin and weave. She has taught extensively in Washington and Oregon and continues to teach in California. She has exhibited in numerous exhibitions and co-authored Grounds for Gathering, a book on natural materials found in the Pacific Northwest.
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Travel Pouch with Jo Campbell-Amsler
Students will learn many rib-style willow techniques for this “basket” pouch which is flat on one side, rounded on the other and has a “D” shaped lid. Many design sharing and shaping techniques will be explored. The pouch is finished with a corded leather strap and natural embellishments. Level: Intermediate Materials Fee: $48.00 which includes willow “D” frames, 2 lbs willow weavers, 1 lb willow ribs, handout, tool usage, leather straps, beads and closure buttons.
Jo Cambell-Amsler has been using willow in her basketry work for the past 25 years and specializes in using rib-style techniques. She teaches and sells throughout the United States. While most of her baskets are functional, she is non-traditional in her approach to using found objects from nature and pushes the willow in sculptural aspects.
Cost for the Retreat is: $255.00 for members; $275.00 non-members and includes a 2 year LABG Membership.
To reserve send a $50.00 non-refundable deposit (payable to LABG) to:
Judy Robelloto
18007 Regina Avenue
Torrance, CA 90504
oldsnowboarder@earthlink.netPlease include a legal size self-addressed stamped envelope with your deposit.
For additional questions contact:
Suzye Ogawa
(310) 392-7385
Suzye@adelphia.net
Past Events
2006 Retreat
April 7-9, 2006, at Camp Stevens, Julian
A few openings are still available for the three workshops:
Black Ash Splint Basketry-Cathead to Contemporary with JoAnn Kelly Catsos. Materials Fee: $110.00.
Working with Wire & Transforming the Ordinary with Lindsay Ketterer Rais. Materials fee still to be determined.
Sunshine in the Woods with Cass Schorsch. Materials fee $110
The cost for the weekend is $245.00 for members and $265 for non-members (this fee includes a two year Guild Membership)To reserve please send a $50 non-refundable deposit payable to the L.A. Basketry Guild to Judy Robelotto, 18007 Regina Avenue, Torrance, CA 90504 or call her (310)371-3298 or Suzye Ogawa (310)392-7385 for more information. Please indicate your first and second choices.
LABG's 20th Anniversary Celebration & Lunch
Lunaria restaurant was the place for our special luncheon celebrating 20 years of LABG. Chef and restauranteur Bernard Jacoupy and our own Suzye Ogawa planned this extraordinary event for us.
Time: ll:30 a.m. - 3 p.m., September 10, 2005. Location: 10351 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA.
LABG Field Trip to the Santa Barbara Botanical Gardens
1212 Mission Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105
(805)682-4726
Patrick Dougherty’s “Where There’s a Willow There’s A Way” February 19,2005.
Docent Tour: 1:00 p.m.
Internationally known artist Patrick (Stick Man) Dougherty is currently working on an installation for the Santa Barbara Botanical Gardens. He will complete it by February 26,2005 and it will remain for the next 2 years. There will be a 30-minute docent tour at 1:00 p.m. for the Guild.
Cost: $10.00 per person. Reserve by calling Suzye Ogawa (310) 392-7385.
Meet at the Gardens by 12:45 p.m.
Directions: North 101 to Mission Street exit. Turn right towards the hills.Proceed on Mission Street to Santa Barbara Street. Turn left.
Proceed on Santa Barbara Street to Los Olivos Street. Turn right.
Drive on Los Olivios Street past Mission Santa Barbara. Continue
North towards the mountains to the stop sign at Foothill Road (Hwy 192)
Turn right onto Foothill Road and then left onto Mission Canyon Road.
Drive approximately ½ mile and look for a large sign at the entry to the
Gardens.
We have an exciting Retreat planned for March 18-20, 2005 with nationally known instructors. The cost is $235; the deposit is $50. More info soon!
Class descriptions:
Jerry Bleem, alternative materials and alternative construction methods.
Jerry is using alternative materials (for example, newspaper, corrugated cardboard, twist ties, etc.) with traditional basketry methods.
Level: All. No experience is necessary!
Materials Fee: $25.00
Hemp Flower Basket with Jiro Yonezawa
This workshop explores the use of bamboo, cane and cedar bark using a hemp weave base, twill body work and rim.
Students will learn a hemp weave base, shape a twill body and rim using bamboo, cane and cedar bark.
Level: Intermediate
Materials Fee: $35.00
So. California Natural Material Exploration- Native and Non-Native with Margaret Mathewson
Students will learn about natural materials found in the wild lands and gardens of Southern California suitable for weaving. Students will look at traditional Native basketry from the Monterey Bay to Baja California and east to the Colorado River. Students will learn to process larger, tougher materials into finer strands and make a sampler twined basket with bark strips, split willow, western redbud, tules and cattails, yuccas, juncus rushes, horsetail roots, milkweeds, palm and dracena, daylily and daffodil. Students are welcome to bring in materials with questions.
Proficiency level: All
Materials Fee: $30.00 for raw and some pre-processed materials
