Quick Start Grants
Quick Start Grants
Birch Bark Weaving Course Attendance.
Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, Cultural Programming Coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor UMD Music, pianist; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Schubert: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Emily Fasbender: student liaison, visual artist.
Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor UMD Music, pianist; Margaret Holmes: visual artists, poet, and former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Schubert: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
For this project, I will create a canister double-woven in the traditional Russian diagonal weave with a decorative rim stitched in place with prepared spruce roots and a hand-carved wooden top under the direction of a skilled instructor. I have been creating birch bark baskets with the double woven diagonal weave technique for just over two years, and this winter began offering my items for sale. I am interested in enhancing my weaving techniques to further develop this craft. I have not yet worked with spruce root finishing techniques nor created lids and tops, which is my next goal. I will take one 16-hour course at the American Swedish Institute of Minneapolis led by Vladimir Yarish. I will complete one complex piece under his direction that will provide me with finishing skills with spruce root stitching and wooden lids that will be directly transferable to future pieces I create.
I completed a birch bark canister with diagonal weave plaiting, spruce root stitching on the rim, and a wooden top as proposed. I also had enough time to work on a second project, so I completed a short diagonal weave plaited basket with rolled rim (another rim finishing technique that was new to me). I now have the skills to harvest, prepare, and use spruce root for future projects, which was the goal of my attending this course.
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