Basket Weaving Workshop — Adirondack Pack Baskets
2-Day Workshop
May 3 & 4, 2025
Instructor: Alexa René Rivera
In this basket-weaving intensive, everyone will make and leave with their own hand-crafted Adirondack pack basket, a traditional and recognizable basket that was originally used while trekking, hiking, hunting and trapping in the Adirondack Region.
Learn basic basket weaving skills and create your own Adirondack pack basket for use in garden, forest, farm, or mountain.
Workshop classes are a chance to focus without the distractions of daily life, and to tap into the creative endeavors that sustain us all.
The Marlboro Studio School welcomes students to stay on campus for the duration of their stay, and area residents are also invited to participate as commuting Day Students (limited spots available). Private and shared room options are available for residential students.
Workshop Schedule:
Friday, May 2:
Residential students arrive on campus (after 4:00pm)
Welcome Dinner in Dining Hall (all students welcome)
Saturday, May 3:
Breakfast in Dining Hall (residential students)
10:00 am - noon: Morning workshop session
Lunch in Dining Hall (all students)
1:00 - 5:00 pm: Afternoon workshop session
Dinner in Dining Hall (residential students)
Sunday, May 4:
Breakfast in Dining Hall (residential students)
Review work from Day 1
10:00 am - noon: Morning workshop session
Lunch in Dining Hall (all students)
1:00 - 5:00 pm Afternoon work session & wrap-up
Student departure (all students)*
Monday, May 5 - Tuesday, May 6:
Basketry students who are also enrolled in the May 6-8 Botanical Contact Printing Workshop are invited to stay in their residential accommodations on May 4 and 5 for no additional cost. Meals will be available for a small fee. Please contact us if this applies to you!
*If your travel arrangements require you to remain in your residential accommodations overnight on Sunday, May 4, please contact us.
Tuition includes all instruction and materials. Day student tuition includes lunch for the duration of the session. Residential student tuition includes room & board, including all meals, for the duration of the workshop. The cost of meals included in tuition fees cannot be pro-rated.
There is one tuition scholarship available for this workshop (does not include residential room & board fees). Please fill out the Basket Weaving Scholarship application to apply.
For additional details about fees & what to expect during a week-long workshop, please visit our workshop information page. Workshops are available to persons who are 21 years of age and older as of the date of their arrival on campus, or accompanied by a parent/guardian.
Click here to view our Terms & Conditions.
2-Day Workshop
May 3 & 4, 2025
Instructor: Alexa René Rivera
In this basket-weaving intensive, everyone will make and leave with their own hand-crafted Adirondack pack basket, a traditional and recognizable basket that was originally used while trekking, hiking, hunting and trapping in the Adirondack Region.
Learn basic basket weaving skills and create your own Adirondack pack basket for use in garden, forest, farm, or mountain.
Workshop classes are a chance to focus without the distractions of daily life, and to tap into the creative endeavors that sustain us all.
The Marlboro Studio School welcomes students to stay on campus for the duration of their stay, and area residents are also invited to participate as commuting Day Students (limited spots available). Private and shared room options are available for residential students.
Workshop Schedule:
Friday, May 2:
Residential students arrive on campus (after 4:00pm)
Welcome Dinner in Dining Hall (all students welcome)
Saturday, May 3:
Breakfast in Dining Hall (residential students)
10:00 am - noon: Morning workshop session
Lunch in Dining Hall (all students)
1:00 - 5:00 pm: Afternoon workshop session
Dinner in Dining Hall (residential students)
Sunday, May 4:
Breakfast in Dining Hall (residential students)
Review work from Day 1
10:00 am - noon: Morning workshop session
Lunch in Dining Hall (all students)
1:00 - 5:00 pm Afternoon work session & wrap-up
Student departure (all students)*
Monday, May 5 - Tuesday, May 6:
Basketry students who are also enrolled in the May 6-8 Botanical Contact Printing Workshop are invited to stay in their residential accommodations on May 4 and 5 for no additional cost. Meals will be available for a small fee. Please contact us if this applies to you!
*If your travel arrangements require you to remain in your residential accommodations overnight on Sunday, May 4, please contact us.
Tuition includes all instruction and materials. Day student tuition includes lunch for the duration of the session. Residential student tuition includes room & board, including all meals, for the duration of the workshop. The cost of meals included in tuition fees cannot be pro-rated.
There is one tuition scholarship available for this workshop (does not include residential room & board fees). Please fill out the Basket Weaving Scholarship application to apply.
For additional details about fees & what to expect during a week-long workshop, please visit our workshop information page. Workshops are available to persons who are 21 years of age and older as of the date of their arrival on campus, or accompanied by a parent/guardian.
Click here to view our Terms & Conditions.
2-Day Workshop
May 3 & 4, 2025
Instructor: Alexa René Rivera
In this basket-weaving intensive, everyone will make and leave with their own hand-crafted Adirondack pack basket, a traditional and recognizable basket that was originally used while trekking, hiking, hunting and trapping in the Adirondack Region.
Learn basic basket weaving skills and create your own Adirondack pack basket for use in garden, forest, farm, or mountain.
Workshop classes are a chance to focus without the distractions of daily life, and to tap into the creative endeavors that sustain us all.
The Marlboro Studio School welcomes students to stay on campus for the duration of their stay, and area residents are also invited to participate as commuting Day Students (limited spots available). Private and shared room options are available for residential students.
Workshop Schedule:
Friday, May 2:
Residential students arrive on campus (after 4:00pm)
Welcome Dinner in Dining Hall (all students welcome)
Saturday, May 3:
Breakfast in Dining Hall (residential students)
10:00 am - noon: Morning workshop session
Lunch in Dining Hall (all students)
1:00 - 5:00 pm: Afternoon workshop session
Dinner in Dining Hall (residential students)
Sunday, May 4:
Breakfast in Dining Hall (residential students)
Review work from Day 1
10:00 am - noon: Morning workshop session
Lunch in Dining Hall (all students)
1:00 - 5:00 pm Afternoon work session & wrap-up
Student departure (all students)*
Monday, May 5 - Tuesday, May 6:
Basketry students who are also enrolled in the May 6-8 Botanical Contact Printing Workshop are invited to stay in their residential accommodations on May 4 and 5 for no additional cost. Meals will be available for a small fee. Please contact us if this applies to you!
*If your travel arrangements require you to remain in your residential accommodations overnight on Sunday, May 4, please contact us.
Tuition includes all instruction and materials. Day student tuition includes lunch for the duration of the session. Residential student tuition includes room & board, including all meals, for the duration of the workshop. The cost of meals included in tuition fees cannot be pro-rated.
There is one tuition scholarship available for this workshop (does not include residential room & board fees). Please fill out the Basket Weaving Scholarship application to apply.
For additional details about fees & what to expect during a week-long workshop, please visit our workshop information page. Workshops are available to persons who are 21 years of age and older as of the date of their arrival on campus, or accompanied by a parent/guardian.
Click here to view our Terms & Conditions.
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.