Please note: this is a series. It will take place on January 13th, 20th, and 27th from 6:00pm-7:30pm.
Learn to weave baskets from used fishing gear during this three week course. Each class is one and a half hours long, and meets once a week. You will learn how to start a basket from the bottom, shape the sides, and finish the top edge of your basket. Participants may focus on a single larger work, or several smaller works over the duration of the course. This course will focus on two strand basket twining using rope.
No prior basket weaving experience required. Instructor will provide materials, but if you wish to bring your own beach finds or reuse materials to incorporate, you are welcome to do so!
Elaine Alder is a New Bedford based sculptor, fiber artist, and ceramicist who works with both natural materials and repurposed plastics, including used fishing gear, to comment on human relationships within the ecosystems we inhabit. In 2024 they created “The Water We’re Swimming In,” a life sized marine debris sculpture of North Atlantic right whales, in partnership with NOAA and the National Park Service in New Bedford, MA. They also recently collaborated with Atlantic Workshop on “Buoys of Joy,” a large fishing gear sculpture in Orleans, MA.
Register HERE; costs $50 for all three session.