Date & Time: Saturday, February 17, 2024: 10am–4:00pm PST, with a lunch break from 12–12:30 pm
Location: Online via Zoom. Registrants will be sent a link
Cost: $47 ($11 class fee + $36 materials fee). Materials will be shipped prior to the class. Registrants will include their shipping address at check out.
Number of students: 15
Instructor: Chloë Hight
Student skill level: All levels welcome, CBBG members only
Tools needed: scissors, a towel, spray bottle or small bucket of water, clothes pins, notebook/pen. Bring any plant materials you have gathered and/or are curious about weaving with.
Description: In this class Chloë will share her love of weaving with a wide array of plant fibers, from leaves found in the garden compost bin to materials growing in neighborhood alleys. Students will learn how to make cordage (rope) as an entry point to begin creating a relationship with a new plant material and explore its viability for basket weaving. Foundational weaving techniques including plaiting, twining, and border patterns will be introduced to create a small vessel using local plant fibers. This class will create an opportunity for students to explore basket weaving as a means of more deeply connecting with the places they live and love.
Students are encouraged to have a second camera for their workspace to facilitate demonstration and problem-solving. Assemble a stand with these DIY directions.
Register below by clicking “Add to Cart”. The last day to register is Thursday, February 1, 2024. Class is open to Guild members only; if you are not a member of the Guild but would like to become one, click here.
If the class fills, and you are interested in attending, you can join the wait list by sending an email with the class title and your contact information to ColumbiaBasinBasketryGuild@gmail.com
Photograph of instructor Chloe Hight.
About Your Instructor: Chloë Hight (she/her/hers) was raised by the flow of the Columbia River and twisting white oak trees in Hood River, Oregon. Her studies of pottery and printmaking at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, British Columbia, led her to the small village of Teotitlan del Valle in Oaxaca, México, to learn from Horacio Guitiérez, a woolen textile weaver and natural dyer. He generously shared his knowledge of cloth and how each plant, handspun skein of wool, and steaming dye pot was an expression of the story of his people and their deeply rooted relationship with place. This experience profoundly influenced Chloë’s artistic practice, and she began searching for ways to deepen her relationship with creative materials and techniques that reflected the place where she lived. Chloë returned to Vancouver, BC and began an apprenticeship with the EartHand Gleaners Society studying under Sharon Kallis and Rebecca Graham to learn the process of growing and repurposing local and introduced plants for textile fiber, botanical dyes, and basket weaving material. Chloë now lives on the Oregon Coast (the land of the Tututni Peoples) and is a practicing visual and teaching artist.