Nantucket Style Baskets and More!

Kathy started weaving in a local class while living in South Carolina, and very quickly fell in love with basketry. She quickly expanded her education while in Japan on deployment with her husband and sons; she was invited to study with local master weavers and soon began actively teaching classes.

Kathy is influenced by her love and intricacy of Japanese basketry as well as the beauty, tradition and usefulness of Nantucket and Shaker basketry. She has and continues to exhibit in shows across the Northeastern United States, both group and juried art exhibits and teaches in Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina.

Black Ash Basketry

Instructor JoAnn Kelly Catsos is an award-winning traditional black ash splint basketmaker and teacher from Ashley Falls, Massachusetts. Her work is influenced by traditional Shaker and native New England basket styles. The clean forms have remained, but over the course of her 35 year career her baskets have evolved into smaller, more finely woven intricately patterned vessels.

JoAnn exhibits nationally and teaches her basketry workshops at art and craft schools, conferences and for private groups. Her baskets have been featured in a number of books and magazines, and graced the cover of the Crafts Report magazine in October 2012. She is the recipient of the Certificate of Excellence in Basketmaking: level I from the Handweavers Guild of America. Her baskets are in private and public collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

JoAnn Kelly Catsos' Website

Diagonal Twill Immersion

Instructor Annetta Kraayeveld can’t remember a time when she was not making something. “I am a maker. In the early 1990's, I discovered basket weaving after stumbling upon a book and begging for a lesson. I quickly began making baskets, experimenting, and teaching basketry.”Since 2000, she has been teaching at guilds and basketry events across North America. Her work has received numerous awards and has been exhibited across the country. In 2020, she joined the board of the National Basketry Organization; Annetta currently serves as president of NBO. Baskets, their history and cultural reach, the variety of techniques, and the limitless creative possibilities, motivate her to weave. As a teacher, her focus is on mastery, basketry techniques and stretching perceived limits. As a maker, her work is somewhere between traditional and contemporary.

Basketry with Anne Bowers

Anne is from the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia where she works in her studio designing and teaching baskets. She was a production basket maker for many years, and she brings those skills into each basket that she teaches. Ribbed basketry is her specialty, and some of her baskets have taken on a sculptural perspective in recent years. Anne has participated in many basketry exhibits and shows and has won many awards for her work.

She produced baskets on huge moose antlers to be used by a floral designer for the Philadelphia Flower Show. She is a member of the National Basketry Organization. She has taught on 3 basketry cruises, teaches basketry widely and lectures about the woven form.

This coming fall will mark her 33rd year of participation in the annual Over the Mountain Studio Tour. Her goal is to make each student’s class a successful one.

Anne Bower’s has newly published ribbbd baskets book.