Birchbark Biting Workshop with Kelly Church

Join Woven Being collaborating artist Kelly Church (Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Tribe of Pottawatomi/Ottawa) for a hands-on workshop on birchbark biting, a practice that is central to artworks and themes explored in exhibition . This workshop will be held in Evanston at the Block Museum of Art.

Each participant will learn to create birchbark bitings by peeling pieces of summer birchbark and biting designs with their teeth, including a butterfly, dragonfly, and flower. Participants will also be given a mat to frame their finished pieces.

A meal will be provided for registered attendees from 5:30-6:15pm. The workshop will begin at 6:30pm.

Workshops are offered free of charge for registered participants, and will include all materials, guided instruction, and a light meal. Free parking also provided.

Programs are open to all, on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that space for this program is extremely limited and advance registration is required for each workshop. Each registrant is able to reserve 1 ticket. Workshops will be listed as sold out when capacity is reached. We will then take a waitlist and confirm in advance if any spots open.

Co-presented with the .

On April 17, Kelly Church will be facilitating an additional workshop on black ash basket weaving at the Center for Native Futures.

Kelly Church (Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Tribe of Pottawatomi/Ottawa, born 1967) comes from an unbroken lineage of black ash basket makers. She is a fiber artist, educator, activist, and culture keeper. She learned black ash basketry from her father, Bill Church, and cousin, John Pigeon. 

Host or Publisher The Block Museum of Art