Basket Collector II www.ncbasketmakers.com 2014 March 13 - 16 2015 March 19 - 22 2016 March 17 - 20 2017 March 16 - 19 NCBA 2014 Be Sure to Join Us! Welcome to Basket Collector ll Basket Collector II I am dedicating this brochure to Kathy Libby, she was my first basket weaving teacher, then I started working for her and we became friends. We had our ups and downs but we had a great time! I miss her! This is how I started my basket collecting. The baskets on cover are very special to me. The center one NCBA Convention 2014 is the first basket I ever made in January 1996 with Kathy Libby. The Small Burma Border Tote was given to me by Jim Rutherford during my first convention in 2004. The Egg Basket was made by Basket Collector II Denise Carlson I won it in a Raffle. The Santa Collector, the Watering Can and the Hanging Basket were designed and painted by my friend Kathy Libby. March 13-16, 2014 I have had a very hard year I was hoping it was gonna be just a whole lot of fun but NOT! We must go on and remember our friends that are no longer with us and weave lots of baskets in their Durham, North Carolina honor. NCBA 2014 Hope to see you all at convention and help me celebrate coordinating my second convention 10 years later. We have some wonderful baskets to see and weave. Thank you everyone for all your help!! Please read and refer to the check list that will help remind you of important dates. * Make reservations ASAP! The Sheraton Imperial's phone number is 919-941-5050. Be sure to let them know that you are with NCBA. Room rates this year $106 a night. * Choose your classes carefully. Be sure to fallow the registration directions carefully. *:Dates to remember ~December 1-17, 2013: Registration for members in good standing by September 30, 2013. ~February 1, 2014: Deadline to send in your shirt order. ~January 31, 2014: All class fees MUST be paid or your name will be removes from the class list. ~March 13~16, 2014: Basket Collector Convention Registration begins at 11:00 am. Classes begin at 1 pm. If you have any questions about any of the above dates, or if I can assist you in any way, please email me at [email protected] I hope that you will make many memories and collect my baskets! Juanita March 13-16, 2014 Basket Collector ll Durham, North Carolina the country including Arrowmont, the self-taught, I have also taken classes designs. Judy's work has been featured John C. Campbell Folk School and the from European instructors here in the in several publications including “Our North Carolina Basketmakers States and in Germany and England. I State” magazine. Judy has devoted a Association Convention. grow my own willow on my farm in great deal of her time to the Martin Pages 13, 15, 28 Milford, MI. In addition to writing County Arts Council and to NCBA several articles in various publications, I which she co-founded. NCBA's first have also co-authored a book. I teach all convention as well as 2005 and 2012 Tika Tucker over the country at conferences, were coordinated by Judy. She strives to Ellenboro, NC conventions, and local shops. "I love the pass on the appreciation for the arts and Tika has been weaving baskets for over strength and character of willow and particularly the art and tradition of 22 years and teaching for 14. She loves enjoy sharing what I have learned with basketry to future generations. Page 31 to incorporate shapes, patterns and color others". Pages 25, 32 Basket Collector II s in her designs and she encourages Laura Lee Zanger students to follow their own creative Augusta, GA insights in these areas. Her basket Bill and Charlene White Laura Lee Zanger has been designing making and designs have been New Bern, NC baskets and writing patterns since influenced by her watercolor painting, Bill and Charlene White have been October 2000. She has been teaching on knitting ski sweaters and sewing. Tika NCBA convention instructors for 26 the basketry convention circuit since continues to use those influences to keep years. He is a past board member and 2002 and enjoys expressing her her interest fresh and alive. Page 25 photographer for numerous conventions creativity in Cherokee, Choctaw and and seminars. She was 1996 convention Chitimacha twill designs. She travels the Marilyn Wald coordinator and responsible for country teaching Southeastern Native Riga, MI coordinating multiple seminars. They American twill techniques and shares her were the coordinators for the 1998 excitement and enthusiasm for weaving Owner of XYZ Baskets Works, Marilyn convention. They specialize in Nantucket has been weaving since 1988 and began with everyone she encounters while baskets with Bill designing and making maintaining the fascination of a child teaching in 1989 with two students. all his molds and working parts. They Marilyn has taught art conventions, with every new idea, lesson and enjoy working together on their baskets. experience. Laura Lee has also written guilds and workshops around the US and They enjoy all style baskets but their Canada. She has been featured in basketry poems, instructional books and passion is Nantuckets. When not a novel. Her goal is to enlighten Baskets Bits Magazine and Just Patterns. working on their baskets, you will find Pages 17, 32 everyone on the thrill of twill weaving in them at their place at the beach. the Native American tradition of single Pages 22, 30 and double woven baskets. Barbara Weber Pages 14, 23, 30 Arlington, VA Judy Wilson Pamela Zimmerman Barbara has been weaving baskets since Palmetto, GA Washington, NC 2000. After retiring in 2005 from a 30- year career with the Federal government, Judy taught herself how to make baskets Pamela has won numerous awards in art in 1984 after moving to the mountains of she began weaving “full-time” and th shows for her contemporary works and enjoys classes to learn new techniques North Georgia. She is in her 29 year of horsehair miniatures. She is co-founder and how to work with new materials. weaving and teaching. Judy has taught of the Natural Fibers Group, an NC- She is a member of the Workhouse Art in 20 states to thousands of students. based guild focusing on exploration of Center's Fiber Arts Studio, a cooperative She creates her own designs and also gathered fibers in weaving. Pamela studio devoted to demonstrating that enjoys coiling, twining and beading. She coordinated NCBA 2006 convention, fiber works are also art. Barbara teaches works almost exclusively with fiber Co-Coordinated 2009 Convention, was NCBA Convention 2014 locally, as well as for regional groups materials. Judy has a passion for making NCBA Secretary from 2007 - 2011 and and at state conventions. She has won and teaching basketry and over the years has been NCBA webmaster since 2002. awards for her work from the North she been written up in a number of books She is the founder/webmaster of the March 13-16, 2014 Carolina Basketry Association, the and well as won many awards. internet-based Pine Needle Group. Association of Michigan Basketmakers, Pages 20, 35 Pages 11, 33 and the Handweavers Guild of America (through the Creative Crafts Council). Judy Wobbleton Durham, North Carolina Pages 16, 18, 29, 34 Williamston, NC Judy has been creatively weaving Sandra Whalen baskets for over 30 years. Using Milford, MI traditional techniques she creates My love for willow has been on-going functional pieces influenced by Native for over 30 years. Although basically Americans and traditional Appalachian 43 March 13-16, 2014 Basket Collector ll Durham, North Carolina March 13-16, 2014 Basket Collector ll Durham, North Carolina NCBA Convention 2014 at East Carolina University. After Pam Talsky www.NathanTaylorBaskets.com and working for many years as a computer Waterford, WI www.basketshop.com. The “Nathan graphic artist she was introduced to clay Taylor Basketshop” has recently moved BASKET COLLECTOR II nearly 20 years ago and since built a It started with a pine needle basket in to Hohenwald, Tennessee. There, Nathan fully equipped studio. Having studied June of 1994. Pam has traveled to will teach, design baskets and raise fish. extensively with other working potters Thailand with Royalwood and has made Pages 19, 27 Contents through guild memberships and 8 trips to Alaska, to learn pine needle workshops she is always striving to learn from Jeannie McFarland and Haida more about the world of ceramics. A weaving with Delores Churchill. She Kathy Tessler new addition to her work is designing also harvests and prepares her won Howell, MI Brochure Dedication . Inside Cover western red and Alaskan yellow cedar bowls, vases, and center pieces for I LOVE teaching basketry! My goal as a Points to Remember . Inside Cover basketry. Pages 17, 27, 35 barks and Sitka spruce root. She loves everything about weaving, from the teacher is to fill my students' heads with Contents . Page 1 gathering and preparation of materials to as many tips and techniques as I possibly Marla Sunstrom creating beautiful, mostly functional can during a class. Of course I hope that they leave class with a basket that they Convention Volunteers . Page 2 Sussex, WI vessels. The connection of weaving really love. I have specialized in double How to Register. Pages 3, 4 across the cultures continues to amaze Throughout my 22 years of weaving I and inspire her. Sharing her knowledge base/double wall baskets for many years Janet Adkerson Scholarship Raffle .