Dates: Sat Oct 19 – Sun Oct 20, 2024, 10 am – 5 pm both days. Ticket: $200 member / $225 non-member. Instructor: Lissa de Sailles from NSW, Australia. Materials fee: $10-$50 based on materials selected. Skills Needed: No basketry experience required. Class Limit: 12 students, 7 minimum

Learn how Lissa makes her signature sculptural basketry forms with a variety of materials from the local environment using the aesthetically pleasing coiling technique, Australian-style. Over two days you will learn how to identify and work with locally harvested natural fibres to make beautiful and meaningful stitched art works that connect people to nature and place.

Tools/supplies to bring: tailors awl/ice pick, size 18-20 chenille needles, kitchen scissors, 3 or 4 ply waxed linen, apron, LUNCH and DRINK!

Some materials may be purchased during the workshop ($10-50, cash or check only): e.g. seagrass, waxed linen.

Some materials will be available for all to use: hay bale sisal strands, some raffia, willow rods.

Students are encouraged to collect and bring their own materials – the following list details some of the local materials that can be used for coiling. (Contact workshop chair Judy Dominic (judy@judydominic.com) for collection/storage information.)

– Vines (focus on thin, slender vines, long lengths): honeysuckle (not the bush), Virginia creeper, bittersweet, English ivy, wild grapevine, clematis

– Leaves (focus on as long a length as you can get/full growth): cattail, Siberian iris, ornamental grasses (e.g. pampas)

– Stems (from leaf or flower): hosta, hickory, day lily, palm inflorescence

– Needles: pine – the longer the better

Other materials that can be used: cloth strips, piping cord or paracord

Lissa-Jane de Sailles she/her. Lissa-Jane lives and works in her studio on Jerrinja/Wandi Wandian land on the south east coast of New South Wales, Australia. Her work sits at the nexus of textile and fibre art as she works with basketry techniques to create sculptural forms and installations with localy foraged natural fibres and textiles. Initially trained as a dancer and costume maker, Lissa-Jane now balances her creative arts practice with teaching fibre art locally and internationally. In 2022 she was awarded Runner Up for her wearable art ensemble ‘Red Waratah Girl’ and in 2023 was the first international artist to be invited to teach at the 11th Biennial National Basketry Organization Conference in Tacoma, Washington.

Website: lissadesailles.com

Instagram: Lissadesailles

Please read these important ticketing details:

• WGGC Members must use a special promo code to get the member rate. Check your WGGC Weaverbird newsletter or contact Judy Dominic to get the code and enter it in the promo code field BEFORE you purchase your ticket.
• Registration opens for members on August 1st. Registration opens for non-members on September 7th. Registration closes on September 29th.

Problems registering? Questions about the workshop? Please contact the workshop chair, Judy Dominic at judy@judydominic.com.

If you are not feeling well, please contact the workshop chair instead of coming to the class. On a case-by-case basis, we may be able to reschedule you into a future class or provide a make-up lesson. Ticket fees are not normally refunded. Depending on the Depending on the CDC guidelines for Hamilton County at the time the workshop is held, a mask may be required. If so, you will be notified before the first workshop.

Fees are normally not refundable except for these contingencies:

(1) If the workshop is canceled, your ticket cost will be refunded in full.

(2) If the workshop is changed to a different date, you have the option to apply your ticket cost to retain your place; otherwise, a full refund can be given.

(3) If you are unable to attend the workshop and if you contact the workshop chair at least thirty days before the workshop date, your ticket cost can be refunded minus the Eventbrite ticketing fees.

(4) If you cancel less than thirty days before the workshop, your ticket cost will not be refunded, but it may be possible to make alternative arrangements so that your fee and place in the workshop are not forfeited; contact the workshop chair for options.