Bark to Basket Workshop with Andrew Lee

Andrew is a professional educator with over 25 years of experience teaching nature and history inspired primitive arts. This Bark-to-Basket Workshop is offered when bark can be easily removed while sap is moving nutrients from the roots to the upper parts of trees like poplar, sweet gum, and cedar.
Actual poplar logs will be brought to the class and students will be instructed how to remove, fold, and begin to dry a piece of bark. They will take this unfinished basket and other supplies home to complete on their own. Next, they will be provided a pre-removed, folded, and dried poplar bark basket. They will use the preform to construct their own basket and add various embellishments. Each student will take home their completed basket. No prior experience with basketry is necessary.