Coiled Basket Making

You'll use gorgeous fabrics and yarns to wrap around a fabric core and then coil it all into a beautiful basket. Your basket will be unique, as you follow your own design ideas and aesthetic preferences, with access to the wonderful selection of materials that will be provided.

Once the form is created, you can add embellishments with beads, shells, tassels and other ornamentation to take it to the next level.

No basket-making or art experience is necessary to take this workshop, or to make fabulous pieces of art. Perfect for beginning through advanced artists. All materials and tools will be provided.

Instructor Vicki Assegued is an experimental and innovative fiber artist and instructor, always finding new and unique ways to work with textiles and fibers. Through her creative process, she explores many ways to weave, layer, attach, coil, tie, knot, twist, build and develop her pieces so they are vibrant and engaging. She then shares all of her techniques with her students, supporting and inspiring them to fully engage in their own creative process of discovery and expression.

Vicki teaches at art schools and retreats around the country, such as the Art & Soul Mixed Media Retreat, the Mendocino Art Center, and North Country Studio Workshops. Vicki completed a 4-month residency with the Santa Cruz Recycled Art Program. She has exhibited and sold her work at galleries, businesses, health centers, restaurants, community centers, museums, and open studio events. You can learn more about Vicki here: https://www.vickiart.com/

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse, 4695 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, United States