Basket Weaving: Harvest Baskets
Saturday Intensive Workshop
October 19, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Instructor: Alexa René Rivera
In this full day basket weaving intensive, everyone will make and leave with their own Harvest Basket- perfect for harvesting leafy greens in the garden, foraging in the woods, apple picking all fall, or taking to the Farmer’s Market. This basket finishes with a beautiful leather strap, from Champlain Leather in Burlington.
There will be a mid-day break for lunch and opportunity to walk around the campus. Please pack a lunch.
Check out a gallery of past workshops and baskets & contact Alexa with any questions at wovncountry.com
This class is open to students 16 years of age and older.
Skill Level: 1-3, all are welcome.
Limited scholarship funding may be available for this workshop. To apply for financial aid, please fill out our Scholarship Application.
Click here to view our Terms & Conditions.
Skill levels: 1 - Beginner; 2 - Beginner/Intermediate; 3 - Intermediate; 4 - Intermediate/Advanced; 5 - Advanced
Saturday Intensive Workshop
October 19, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Instructor: Alexa René Rivera
In this full day basket weaving intensive, everyone will make and leave with their own Harvest Basket- perfect for harvesting leafy greens in the garden, foraging in the woods, apple picking all fall, or taking to the Farmer’s Market. This basket finishes with a beautiful leather strap, from Champlain Leather in Burlington.
There will be a mid-day break for lunch and opportunity to walk around the campus. Please pack a lunch.
Check out a gallery of past workshops and baskets & contact Alexa with any questions at wovncountry.com
This class is open to students 16 years of age and older.
Skill Level: 1-3, all are welcome.
Limited scholarship funding may be available for this workshop. To apply for financial aid, please fill out our Scholarship Application.
Click here to view our Terms & Conditions.
Skill levels: 1 - Beginner; 2 - Beginner/Intermediate; 3 - Intermediate; 4 - Intermediate/Advanced; 5 - Advanced
Saturday Intensive Workshop
October 19, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Instructor: Alexa René Rivera
In this full day basket weaving intensive, everyone will make and leave with their own Harvest Basket- perfect for harvesting leafy greens in the garden, foraging in the woods, apple picking all fall, or taking to the Farmer’s Market. This basket finishes with a beautiful leather strap, from Champlain Leather in Burlington.
There will be a mid-day break for lunch and opportunity to walk around the campus. Please pack a lunch.
Check out a gallery of past workshops and baskets & contact Alexa with any questions at wovncountry.com
This class is open to students 16 years of age and older.
Skill Level: 1-3, all are welcome.
Limited scholarship funding may be available for this workshop. To apply for financial aid, please fill out our Scholarship Application.
Click here to view our Terms & Conditions.
Skill levels: 1 - Beginner; 2 - Beginner/Intermediate; 3 - Intermediate; 4 - Intermediate/Advanced; 5 - Advanced
Instructor: Alexa Rivera
Basket weaving is a tradition as old as human history, & a craft that has been practiced by nearly every ancient culture across the globe. People have used baskets for harvesting food from their gardens, farms, and woods, for gathering tools from their good earth, for foraging medicines, and for the simple yet powerful ritual of collection.
The study of baskets is an important study of vessel, of human, of geography and of intuition. It is about the vines, grasses, and barks peoples have lived within and woven from-it is abut what these baskets are carrying- it is about the weavers. Basket weaving is a way to connect with our ancestral lineage. It is an allowance to sit together and tell the stories of our people, and weave these lessons into sacred container. It is about abundance. It is about the meditation of over-under-over-under. It is an art both beautiful and utilitarian, both highly skilled and inspiringly free-form.
This is a commitment to making slow, to the honoring of process, to the finger-aching visceral joy of the labor of love, to the beloved handmade- to the beloved hands, to the rightful gratification of did it my damn-self.