Anne Bowers
Kearneysville, West Virginia
Anne is from the Eastern Panhandle of WV, where she
works and teaches in her studio. A production weaver of
many years, she brings those skills into a class
situation to make each students' experience successful.
She loves ribbed baskets, especially but is well versed
in many weaving types.
Jane McCall Brinkman
Meadowview, Virginia
Jane is the business office manager in a rural private
college in Southwest Virginia and spends much of her
spare time weaving and trying to figure out how to find
more time to weave! She is currently the President of
the Tri-State Basketry Guild and enjoys the fellowship
that comes with weaving and sharing with all the good
people who are weavers around this world. Jane thanks
God for the opportunities that he has given to her
through weaving. She has been truly blessed.
JoAnne Kelly Catsos
Ashley Falls, Massachusetts
JoAnn has been teaching and basket making for 26 years.
She teaches her black ash baskets nationally. She and
her husband, Steve, process the splint and make all
wooden rims, handles and molds. JoAnn had won numerous
awards and had an ornament on the White House Christmas
tree. she is a recipient of the Hand weavers Guild of
America's Certificate of Excellence in Basket making;
Level I.
Cathy Cupp
Elkton, Virginia
Cathy owned and operated Cupp Basket & Supply in Elkton,
VA for over 20 years. She has spent her days making
baskets, writing patterns, selling supplies and teaching
classes. Over the years, she has introduced over 10,000
people to basket weaving through weekly workshops taught
at Massenutten Resort. She specializes in teaching
beginner and intermediate classes for guilds and
seminars. She believes good techniques taught to
beginners make happier basket makers as well as more
"long term" weavers. After 25+ years and 4400+ baskets,
she is still experimenting with materials, techniques
and design. Her main frustration is not having enough
time to create the baskets that are dancing around in
her head! Someday......
Pati English
Seneca, South Carolina
A collector of Native American and baskets form around
the world, Pati enjoys sharing her love of weaving as a
Resident Artist with the South Carolina Arts Commission.
Her BA degree in Elementary Education/Library Science
carried over to her second career in basket weaving for
the past 25 years. Pati incorporates materials hand dyed
in her studio for decorative and practical designs in
which she has authored patterns available nationally
from several suppliers. Juried baskets of original
designs earned numerous awards in museums, traveling
exhibitions, art shows, discovery centers in the
southeast and at NCBA Exhibits. Her baskets were
featured in Basket Bits Magazine, South Carolina Farmer
Magazine, Southern Living Magazine and she appeared on
SC-ETV and RFD-TV "Making It Grow". She maintains her
website www.BasketsMySpecialty.com, stays active with
local basket organizations as President, Convention
Coordinator and currently Member at Large. She enjoys
teaching students of all ages at local schools, her
studio, museums, state conventions, guilds in SC, NC,
FL, GA, KY, PA, TN, VA and at the John C. Cambell Folk
School. As Guest Curator for the Pickens Museum of Art,
Pati was responsible for the "Basketry: Traditional and
Contemporary Woven Art" Exhibition. She also is a Basket
Weaver instructor with the OLLI Program, Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute at Clemson University.
Ruth Garcia
Westerly, Rhode Island
Ruth, originally from the mid-west and now living in
Rhode Island, has been weaving for over sixteen years and
has grown to love the Nantucket tradition of weaving for
their durability and craftsmanship. She has won several
awards, including the NCBA 2008 Viewers' Choice in General
Membership. Her work has been accepted into juried exhibits
at the Helmet House Gallery in Rhode Island, has received
Honorable Mention at the 82nd Annual Member Exhibit of the
South County Art Association. Recently, her basket creations
were accepted by the Artists Cooperative Gallery of
Westerly. Ruth as taught at many guild conventions, and
enjoys designing different techniques.
Jim and Jimmie Kent
Sneads Ferry, North Carolina
Jim and Jimmie Kent are master basket makers and
workshop leaders working from their home/studio. Their
knowledge of basketry skills and Jim's use of wood working
techniques allow them to produce a unique interaction of
materials and textures that are pleasing to the eye. They
have shared their knowledge of weaving with many people in
all walks of like both children and adults.
Gina Kieft
Rothbury, Michigan
Gina began weaving baskets at the local Community
Education when her children were young. Sixteen years later,
she now teaches that class as well as classes in her home
studio, at guild get togethers and many mid-west
conventions. She has over 90 patterns written and has been
published in two basket magazines. She can be found on her
website www.ginasbaskets.com.
Sharon Klusmann
Tallmadge, Ohio
Sharon has been weaving, designing and teaching basketry
for over 25 years. Her website www.sharonklusmann.com
features seven pages of her original designs. She not only
teaches basketry from her home studio in Tallmadge, OH but
at national conventions and guilds throughout the country.
She has had three of her designs featured in Create and
Decorate Magazine and is also the author of her "Business in
a Basket" to help others who love basket weaving turn their
passion into a successful teaching business.
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Eileen LaPorte
Washington, Michigan
Eileen began weaving baskets in the early 70's using
jute, clothesline rope and fabric. Made many basket for her
large plant collection. She quickly moved onto more
traditional materials, mainly reed. Basketry has taken her
all over the US and also Germany, England, Australia and New
Zealand. She has been involved with the Association of
Michigan Basket makers on the board and on convention
committees for many years. She loves making baskets and all
the friends who have come into her life as a result of
taking up basketry. Eileen has taught at many of the state
conventions, local guilds and at many basketry shops.
Barbara McCormick
Mclellomville, South Carolina
Barbara was raised in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
where she learned the art of sweet grass basket weaving
from her grandmother, mother, aunts and other family
members at a very early age. She has since carried on
this tradition and has shared her talent with others.
Barbara teaches several classes and has had her work
displayed in several publications and public venues.
Debra Roberson
Hallam, Pennsylvania
Debra is a self-taught basket weaver. Because of this,
her weaving style may be a little different than other
weavers. She sees basketry as weaving together the past
and the present, interweaving tradition and history with
their own individual interpretation. Deb has been
teaching for 30 years and likes to incorporate design,
technique and history into her classes.
Judith Saunders
Norfolk, Virginia
For more than 25 years Judith has explored weaving
three-dimensional forms using a variety of traditional and
non-traditional materials. One workshop with Shereen
LaPlantz resulted in Judith's passion for bias plaiting. She
has taught bias plaiting workshops in Virginia and North
Carolina and has shown work in several national juried
exhibitions. Hand-painted watercolor paper and copper are
her materials of choice.
Joyce Bolton Smith
Kingsport, Tennessee
Studied with Martha Wetherbee in New Hampshire. Weaving
since 1988. Have taught at Guilders Weave since its
beginning. One of the founders of the Tidewater Basketry
Guild. Resident of Norfolk, Virginia for 30 years.
Polly Adams Sutton
Seattle, Washington
Polly is a full time studio artist and teacher of basket
making. Living in the Pacific Northwest, Polly gathers her
own materials-cedar bark from logged forest and Sweet grass
from the tidal flats of Washington. The flexibility in these
materials gives her the opportunity to work on asymmetrical
shapes. She exhibits her work in galleries and her
sculptural basket was chosen for the cover illustration of
"500 Baskets".
Pam Talsky
Waterford, Wisconsin
It started with a pine needle basket in June of 1994.
Pam has since traveled to Thailand with the Royalwood tour
and has made 11 trips to Alaska since 1998, to learn Pine
Needle Basketry from Jeannie McFarland and native Haida
weaving with Delores Churchill. She also goes to harvest and
prepare her own western red and Alaskan yellow cedar barks
and Sitka spruce root.
She loves everything about weaving from the gathering and
preparation of materials to creating beautiful, mostly
functional vessels. The connection of weaving across the
cultures continues to amaze and inspire her. Sharing her
knowledge and continuing to learn from other weavers brings
her great joy.
Pam has earned many awards, among them; the AMB Best Coiled
for General Memebership in 2003. In 2004 she won the
Teachers awards for both Coiled and Naturals, for Coiled in
2005, for both Coiled and Art Piece in 2006, she won the AMB
Best Coiled Teacher in 2009 and most recently the AMB
Viewer's Choice Award in 2010.
In 2001 she donated 3 weeks and over 200 hours of time to
weave a family of willow Tepees for the Ronald McDonald
house, which are still used by the kids today.
Pam teaches around the country at conventions in TX, NC, IN,
IL, IA, AL, MI, GA, MN, TN, VA, OH and WI, to name a few.
She also teaches in her private studio in Waterford when she
is not on the road.
Pam completed 3 baskets for the Hoard Museum of Fort
Atkinson which are on permanent display in their Mystery of
the Mounds Exhibit, opened April 2009.
Pam traveled to Dharmashala, India for 2 1/2 weeks in
November 2010 to teach the local women pine needle basketry
so that they may have an industry and making use of thier
long leaf pine needles.
Barbara Webber
Arlington, Virginia
Barbara learned basket weaving from her sister-in-law in
2002. Since retiring in 2005, she has been weaving as often
as she can and takes classes to learn new techniques and to
work with new materials. Barbara loves to experiment, a
holdover from her career as a Research Scientist. She has
taught classes for her local guild, at Michigan and North
Carolina basketry conventions, regional workshops and mini
conventions. Her baskets are exhibited in two galleries in
Northern Virginia and she has won numerous awards for her
work.
Sandy Whalen
Milford, Michigan
Willow has been Sandy's love from the start. It makes
such useful, honest and beautiful baskets. The techniques to
learn in willow are endless and a challenge to master.
Growing willow is a part of that whole experience and
started her on the path over the years to learning from many
willow instructors, traveling to England, Germany, Ireland,
Australia/New Zealand and making marvelous friends along the
way.
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