A collection of baskets created by Anne Bowers.
Date and time: Thursday, December 19, 2024. 6:30pm PDT
Location: Online via Zoom. No RSVP required. Members will receive an email with the Zoom URL prior to the meeting.
Cost: Free. This meeting is intended for Guild members only. If you are not a Guild member, but would like to become one, click here!
Description: Like many of us, Anne Bowers discovered basketry – and the rest, as they say, is history. But unlike most of us, she turned her passion into her career.
Anne, who lives in West Virginia, will be the 2025 Tidal Twinings Retreat Featured Teacher, and our December meeting will be a good time for CBBG members to meet her and see her work.
Join us on Zoom. Anne will show us her studio, some of her newer baskets, and explain the style of ribbed basket weaving.
Anne Bowers has been dedicated to the art and craft of basketry for over 40 years. Although she teaches round reed, twill weaving, stake and strand, and other styles of weaving, her passion is that of ribbed basketry. Her new book, Ribbed Basketry – Traditional to Contemporary, is a thorough tutorial of this style of work, which she hopes to see continued to be learned and practiced. Three hundred photos help to explain the ‘how-to’s’ of ribbed weaving.
Growing up in the Appalachian Mountain area, Anne draws her inspiration from traditional weavers of the craft, as well as the colors and materials found in the natural world surrounding her. Living on the family farm has given her the time and space needed to design, create, weave, and teach her work. Last year, she traveled to Poznan, Poland, for the International Basket Weaving Festival, which draws weavers from 60 countries around the world. She has also traveled to Lichtenfels, Germany, to see the basketry school there and their annual festival. She has taught on cruise ships, for guilds and basketry associations, museums, and for students entering the field of object conservation. Teaching is her ‘happy place!’
Photo of basketmaker, speaker, and instructor Anne Bowers.
Baskets created by Anne Bowers.