Quick Start Opportunity Grants
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Cultural Heritage
1. To make a custom free form black ash pack basket and harness system. 2. To learn the foundational skills of black ash pack basket weaving and construction from an accomplished black ash basket maker/artisan, such as; a. identifying and selecting black ash trees for basketry, processing black ash logs into basket material. b. gain understanding of and experience in how to shape, weave, and manipulate the materials into unique forms. c. understand the weave patterns, the assembly of the basket, and how to make the various components of black ash pack basket like the rims, handles, skids, and harness. 3. To connect with the land, the black ash artisans of the past, and the part of myself that is fed by constructing my handmade life. 4. To gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence as black ash basket artist, that I need to connect visitors of North House Folk School to black ash basketry, and the Arrowhead when I demonstrate the craft for the public at North House. When the class is over I will: 1. Have an individualized black ash pack basket of my own creation, of a high level of function and quality that is aesthetically pleasing. 2. Have gained the foundational knowledge and skills of black ash pack basket construction from selecting and processing appropriate materials, to weaving, shaping, and constructing all parts of the basket. 3. Have gained a greater understanding how the materials and how I use them determine the shape, size, function and visual appeal of the finished basket. 4. Feel enabled to build upon this experience and continue developing my skill and artistic vision with black ash basketry on my own time. 5. Feel confident demonstrating this type of black ash basketry to the public at North House Folk School in August, and I should be successful at doing so. 6. Be able to make additional pack baskets on my own after the completion of this class. 7. Be able to build on this experience to a point where I can reliably make black ash pack baskets and similar types of black ash baskets of a consistent form. 8. Reaffirm my own connection to the land, its first inhabitants, and who I am inside, as well as connect the people who see my black ash baskets to the places and faces from which this craft has grown.
1. I built a free form custom pack basket of a high level of quality, suited to my own needs, that is pleasing to the eye. 2. I learned the weave pattern, and how to build a black ash pack basket. 3. I learned what to look for in a good black ash basket tree. 4. I learned how to harvest and process weaving materials from a black ash tree into clean, consistent, weavers. 5. I learned about the selection of appropriately sized weavers for a particular part of the basket like how the thickness of weavers determines where it can be used in the basket (i.e. as an upright, a weaver, a false rim, or a rim lashing), as well as, how the width of weavers and uprights plays a key role in how much shape a basket can have. 6. I learned how to tension weavers, and train uprights to give a basket the shape I want. 7. I feel confident continuing to build black ash baskets on my own, and demonstrating this craft to the public.
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