Schools and Craft Centers that offer basketry and fiber instruction in the form of
seminars, conferences, workshops, classes, internships, Artists-in-residence and fiber
degree progams.
Arrowmont
Gatlinburg, TN. One of the best craft schools in the country offers year round
workshops and conferences on subjects including basketry.
Art League School, Fiber
Alexandria, VA. Full term weaving and surface design classes and shorter workshops in a
wide variety of fiber techniques are offered.
The Basketry School
Seattle, WA. Offers a variety of basketry workshops. Hosts a basketry weekend of
workshops.
Brookfield Craft Center
Arts and crafts school in Brookfield, CT offers a varied hands on workshop program
providing high quality education for all ages and interest levels. Visiting faculty
provide instruction in a variety of media, including basketry.
Canberra School of Arts
Textiles
Institute of the Arts, Canberra School at The Australian National University.
Undergraduate, graduate and workshops in fiber.
Centre des Metiers d'art en
Construction Textile
Located in Montreal, Canada, this school offers individual programs or a college degree.
Certificate
Program in California Indian Basketry
D-Q University in Davis, CA offers a for-credit program in their Native
American Fine Arts program.
Common Threads
Fiber Arts Store and Learning Center located in Solano Beach, CA that offers classes on
basketry.
Coupeville Art Center
Located on Whidby Island, WA, they offer a Fiber Forum event for fiber enthusiasts the
third week of each September and individual workshops throughout the year.
CraftSummer Miami
University
Oxford, OH. CraftSummer is a series of week long, hands on, workshops taught at
Miami University by local, regional and nationally known artists.
Cranbrook Academy of Art
Bloomfield Hills, MI. A graduate school. The Academy accepts only full-time
students who have earned a bachelors degree. Fiber is one of the areas of concentration.
Eliot School of Fine and Applied
Arts
Community based school based in Jamaica Plain, MA offers basketry and seatweaving
instruction among its choices of workshops.
Fletcher Farm School
for the Arts and Crafts
Situated among the picturesque Green Mountains of Vermont, Fletcher Farm not only
provides you with quality professionals for teaching crafts, it also has dining and
lodging on site!
Frog Hollow
Middlebury, Manchester and Burlington, VT. A private, non-profit visual arts
organization dedicated to advancing appreciation of fine Vermont craft through education
and exhibitions.
Glendale Community College
This Glendale, CA community college regularly offers basketry and fiber arts instruction
in its Arts and Crafts program.
Haliburton
School of The Arts
Haliburton, ON. A branch of Sir Sandford Fleming College in the heart of Ontario,
Canada.
Handweavers Guild of
America
Tutorials, slide shows, video library and other educational support for members.
Certificate
of Excellence program is available for basketry.
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
School of Arts and Crafts located in mid-coast Maine on Deer Isle. Offers
workshops and intensive sessions in a variety of crafts, including fiber/basketry.
Mendocino Art
Center
An educational, exhibition and resource center for the visual and performing
arts located 150 miles north of San Francisco in the quiet coastal village of
Mendocino, California.
Teaching opportunities are available in addition to the chance to learn
basketweaving or other fiber arts.
Quail
Botanical Gardens
San Diego, CA. Home of a large collection of bamboo species along with a large
variety of other plants used in basketry. Their calendar of events regularly
offers workshops in pine needle, gourd and seaweed basketry.
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI. A degree granting school of design. The Department of Textiles offers
a broad-based education in many aspects of design, fiber and pattern.
Sievers
School of Fiber Art
Fiber school in Washington Island, Wisconsin regularly offers basketry
workshops.
Southwestern
Community College
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) unveiled November 13, 2006 that an
Associate in Fine Arts program focusing on Native American art is to be
offered in collaboration with Southwestern Community College The program is to
be offered at the Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts (OICA) in Cherokee.
The studio arts curriculum offerings will include both contemporary and
traditional Cherokee arts such as basketry/weaving, pottery, beadwork, mask
making, sculpture, woodcarving, and stone carving.
Thousand Islands Craft School
Adult, children, young adult and Elderhostel classes and programs in basketry are offered
at this Clayton, NY craft center.
University of Alaska
Southeast
Northwest Coast Art Certificate Program includes a Basketry emphasis option on its Sitka,
Ketchikan or Juneau campuses.
Vissinggaard
An international centre of willow-work and basketry in Jutland, Denmark. Offers
courses in different types of baskets with international teachers. Annual May
Market/Big Willow and Basketry Day.
Willow Winds Primitive Skills
Workshops
Mikado, MI. Workshops will include topics such as: willow basketry, cordage & natural
fibre twining, birch bark baskets, split ash baskets and quillwork. Often taught by
Ne Mook Na Na.
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