To attend, you must RSVP. Members only, please. Send an email with the subject “January Zoom" to ColumbiaBasinBasketryGuild@gmail.com. Please put your full name and email address in the body of the message. We will email you a meeting invitation a few days before the event.

It started with a pine needle basket in June of 1994.

Pam then traveled to Thailand with the Royalwood tour and has made 13 trips to Alaska since 1998, to learn pine needle basketry from CBBG member 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 has traveled to Scotland and Ireland to learn from the local basket makers.

She loves everything about weaving, from the gathering and preparing 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, including the Association of Michigan Basketmakers (AMB) Best Coiled for General Membership in 2003. In 2004 she won the teaches 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 coveted Viewer’s Choice Award in 2010.

Pam teaches around the country at conventions. She also teaches in her private studio in Waterford, Wisconsin, when she is not on the road. Her work has been featured on the cover of the Wisconsin People & Ideas Magazine and also in the National Basketry Organization’s Quarterly Review.