Charissa Brock will discuss her sculptural work with bamboo. She will also talk about her trip to Japan to meet other bamboo basketry artists and research bamboo there. Charissa is a fiber artist working with bamboo, a giant grass that has been used for centuries to create baskets and other everyday objects. She integrates wood, glass, paper, and thread as visual accents and structural components. Her abstract sculptures are crafted using basketry, woodworking, and fiber art techniques.

Charissa earned a BFA in Glass from Center for Creative Studies, College of Art and Design. After college, she studied basketry with individual teachers before earning an MFA in Fibers at Tyler School of Art/Temple University in 2000. She has used bamboo as a primary material since first discovering it while at Tyler.

In addition to her studio practice, she teaches workshops across the USA. Her artwork is in private collections worldwide as well as Arizona State University Museum, the Rivermark Hotel, and the Hyatt Regency Maui.

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