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2024 - 2025 Guild Meeting Programs (Sept-August)

Previous Years Programs (Sept-Aug):

Oct 9, 2024 (Wednesday): Annetta Kraayeveld, "A Basketery Adventure in Poland, International Basket Heaven" (ZOOM ONLY)"

Join us on October 9 (via Zoom only) when Annetta Kraayeveld will tell us about her experience at the international basket competition The 5th World Wicker and Weaving Festival, held August 2023 in Poznan, Poland. She and three other Americans competed with basket weavers from 60 countries in the 15-hour weaving competition, as well as enjoyed the exhibits and presentations by basket makers from the corners of the earth.

The festival was recently featured in the Summer 2024, Issue 91 of basketry+ (the quarterly pmagazine of the National Basketry Organization)

from the Festival

From Annetta:
“It’s hard for Annetta to remember a time when she was not making something, she is a maker. In the early 1990’s, she discovered basket weaving after stumbling upon a book and begging a lesson; she quickly began making baskets, experimenting, and teaching basketry. She has been teaching at fiber arts and basketry gatherings across North America since 2000.

Over the years, Annetta’s work has won several awards and been included in several national exhibits. She currently has work in several exhibits, including Art Evolved: Intertwined (Studio Art Quilt Associates and National Basketry Organization) and the 2024 Small Expressions (Handweavers Guild of America).

Annetta served as the National Basketry Organization Board president in 2022 & 2023. She participated in the World Wicker and Weaving Festival in Poznan, Poland in 2023.

Baskets. What started as a hobby soon became her life’s work. As a teacher, she focuses on mastery, basketry techniques and stretching perceived limits. As a maker, her work is somewhere between traditional and contemporary.

Annetta was born and raised on the prairies in Alberta, Canada. After living among the trees in Wisconsin for many years, she is happy to weave and live surrounded by mountains in Helena, Montana.”

www.annettakraayeveld.com
www.prairiewoodbasketry.com

Instagram: annetta_kraayeveld
Facebook: Annetta Kraayeveld

Join via Zoom from home, there will be NO in person gathering at PNC for this meeting

MEETING DETAILS: Oct 9, 2024 @ 6:30PM, Wednesday.  Annetta will appear via Zoom.

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HOW TO JOIN THE MEETING by ZOOM:  Access Information will be sent by Guild eNews email on the Friday before the meeting, is published in the Guild Newsletter, and is also posted in the Members Only section of this website (access requires password).

Also, as meetings are open to the public, non-members who would like to participate via Zoom should send an email to: webadmin@nwbasketweavers.org

IF YOU HAVE ALREADY PARTICIPATED IN A ZOOM MEETING:
you know the drill.

IF YOU ARE NEW TO ZOOM:
you will need to have the Zoom Client App on your device (computer, tablet, phone). The easiest way to do this is to go to the following URL: https://zoom.us/test
You will be asked if you want to download the Zoom Client, and given the opportunity to test your connection.

Alternatively, for laptop or desktop, you can use your web browser to go to https://zoom.us/ and download the Zoom Client App (https://zoom.us/ – click on “SIGN UP FOR FREE” at the top of the page and follow the resulting instructions). For tablet or phone, go to your App store and Search and download “Zoom Workplace” (or whatever Zoom is currently calling its App). Again, go to https://zoom.us/test to test your connection.

When it is time for the actual meeting, you need only click on the URL in a recent eNews email and also posted in the Members Only section of the website; you will be asked if you want to open Zoom, and offered instructions on how to continue.

TEST YOUR CONNECTION: again, after you have installed the Zoom Client App, you can test your connection by going to
https://zoom.us/test in your web browser, and following instructions.

We look forward to seeing all of you!

November 13, 2024 (Wednesday): "Holiday Gift Exchange"

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For the past many years, NWBW Guild has sponsored a holiday gift exchange for members. With the advent of Covid, the gift exchange  went online, and now we celebrate both online and in person by sending or bringing our gifts and opening them either from your Zoom  site or at the live meeting.

The gifts are of such a wonderful variety: baskets made by members,  baskets found elsewhere (never go looking at Goodwill after Jill Green  or Kay Ames, they already got the best baskets), basket themed books,  tools, supplies, handmade whatever (scarves, jewelry, preserves, hats,  ceramics) hand cream, soaps. As Vicky Nickelson once said: just give  something you would like to receive. Since we are a multi state and  province organization, lots of the gifts are mailed and you can’t put the delivery off until the last minute unless you have a private jet. If you  don’t know your recipient and want to know something about them,  email Barbara and she will try to help you. 

If you would like to participate in The NWBasket Weavers Guild Holiday Gift Exchange, please email your name and street address  to Barbara Osborne by Tuesday, October 1. 

Here are the guidelines and timeline:

By October 1:  email your name and street address to Barbara at  basketmaker47@icloud.com. Barbara will do the drawing and email  you the name of the recipient of your gift by October 4. 

You are responsible to get your gift in the mail soon enough so that  the gift recipient can open it at our November 13 hybrid Guild meeting  online via Zoom or in person at Phinney Ridge Neighborhood Center.  You are also welcome to hand deliver the gift to your recipient.

Recommended mailing dates: 
     for Canadian mailings, in the mail by  October 28;
     for domestic mailing, in the mail by November 6.

MEETING DETAILS: November 13th, 2024 @ 6:30PM, Wednesday.  This meeting will be in person and on Zoom (i.e. hybrid).

September 11, 2024 (Wednesday): Mary Auld "My Basket Journey" --- IN PERSON (and Zoom)

Please enjoy a presentation by long time Guild Member Mary Auld who will take us through her journey with baskets since the 1980s. Mary will be bringing her baskets to the meeting to enjoy up close and personal. 

Mary writes…
“I grew up in Seattle, on Queen Anne Hill, the fourth oldest in a large family. Although the “big kids” had to help take care of younger siblings, I always found time for drawing, painting and making things out of clay. I learned to sew and knit at a young age from neighborhood moms.

I became interested in Native American art and briefly tried wood carving as a student at Seattle Central Community College. I later tried my hand at traditional basket making. My first basket was coiled with raffia and grasses I collected on a car trip to California in the 1980’s. I continued to explore basket making and started going to retreats held at Lake Crescent on the Olympic Peninsula. These annual retreats were put on by the Basketry School, located in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. I took classes from many talented teachers beginning in 1990.

I also discovered the Northwest Basket Weavers Guild, founded in 1982. I remember going to my first Guild meeting in the early 1990’s which was held at an old school building in the City of Shoreline. Not sure of the protocol, I sat in the back. It happened to be a Guild anniversary and Vi Phillips, founder of the Guild, was the guest speaker. I became a member and started going to monthly meetings and annual retreats. I did a term as the Guild president and was also the newsletter editor for sixteen years between 1995 to 2011.

After working many years for Snohomish County Public Works I retired several years ago and have continued my journey in the art of basketmaking including gathering and processing materials, taking classes, exploring materials, entering shows and occasional teaching.”

Join us in-person at PNC or via Zoom from home.

MEETING DETAILS: Sept 11, 2024 @ 6:30PM, Wednesday, at/from PNC.