Love Me, Love Me Knot
3, 4 or 5-day basketry workshop for beginner level

Learn basic techniques of knotting through the process of creating a useable flower vase. Slide overview of contemporary basketry will be inspiring. Information covered includes thread preparation, beginning the bottom, increasing and decreasing the core, adding colors, and methods to finish edges. Add textures and embellishments creatively with materials you bring such as additional threads, beads, charms, buttons, shells – anything goes!

Forget Me Knots
1-day studio class for beginner level

Learn basic techniques of knotting through the process of creating a small useable bud vase. Information covered includes thread preparation, beginning the bottom, increasing and decreasing the core, and adding colors,

Knot Just Any Teacup
1-day or up to 7 day workshop for beginner level

Learn basic techniques of knotting through the process of creating a demitasse cup and saucer. Slide overview of contemporary basketry will be inspiring. Information covered includes thread preparation, beginning the bottom, increasing and decreasing the core, adding colors, and methods to finish edges. The cup and saucer both afford opportunities to learn additive dimensional techniques.

The Art of Business: Approaching Galleries/Business Strategies
2-hour seminar - Objective: sharpening the business end of making art

In addition to being a studio artist, Kate was a gallery director for 24 years. Wearing both these hats affords a particularly sympathetic but realistic perspective to gallery/artist interactions. Learn what galleries look for, professional approaches to galleries, how to prepare portfolios and image packages, and pricing guidance. Alternative marketing opportunities will be explored. Have your questions answered, and be prepared for discussion – a lively exchange among attendees makes for a most successful learning experience.

Kate Anderson: How Knotting Rewove My Life
2-hour seminar slide lecture and group discussion

Kate Anderson will present a dynamic slide presentation on her work. She began as a painter in 1982 and began collaborating with her husband in 1986. For 10 years they had an active career collaborating on painted mixed media wood assemblages. In 1995 she took a knotting class with noted textile artist Jane Sauer and in 1996 began knotting exclusively. In 2006 she ended a 24 year career as a gallery director in order to focus on the opportunities the textile world presents, as well as to concentrate full time on her own work. This session will culminate in a group discussion about the ability to reinvent oneself and the power of positive change.

Pushing Boundaries: Contemporary Basketry
2-hour seminar slide lecture

Artist Kate Anderson will present an overview of contemporary basketry sculpture. A young and vibrant movement, contemporary basketry began in the 1960’s with the work of the late Ed Rossbach. The evolution of processes, materials and approaches to content within the movement are exciting. The spirit of the work with regard to experimentation, innovation, and intellectual pursuit is applicable to any artist in any medium as well as anyone involved with -creative arts.