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TODAY !!!
• REEDY RIVERFEST
5:00am-5:30am Set up 7:30. Festival runs from 10 - 4. We will display/vend baskets and work in the children's tent to make reed bows.
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Welcome!!
The Upper South Carolina Basketmakers Guild welcomes you to this website. We are an organization dedicated to the teaching and sharing of basketmaking ideas and skills. Our guild meets the 1st Thursday of every month at the Lutheran Church of Our Savior at 6:30 pm. The church is located down from Red Lobster on the way to Taylors at 2600 Wade Hampton Blvd., Greenville, SC 29615.The picture is one of baskets offered by Vladmir Yarish at our Oct. 11 -13 workshop in Greenville.
UPCOMING
WEAVE-IN ---- A SUCCESS!!" Kari Lonning will offer to our members a workshop on Feb. 18 - Feb. 21, 2009. Kari is known for her round reed expertise. Here is the description of the artist.
CONGRATULATIONS: Elaine Robson was featured in a recent Southern Living for her work and instruction at John C. Campbell Folk Art School. Pati English is being exhibited at the SC State Musueum's 20th Anniversary Juried Art Exhibit. She also completed an Artist in Residence assignment with 64 3rd graders. Priscilla Phillips and Maxine riley were juried into the Pickens County Museum of Art Show that runs through June. Jeri Pool was juired into the Anderson Arts Center Art Show that runs through May 30th at the Anderson Arts Center. At NCBA, Pati English, Peggy McCarson, Maxine Riley, and Dolores von Rosen won ribbons and awards for their baskets in the Exhibit Room.
The Blue Ridge arts Council presented Maxine Riley a Merit Award in 3D. The Exhibition continues through Marcy 7th. Check the March/April newsletter for a picture. Marianne Barnes was featured in the Greenville News recently for her work with gourds. Also pictured was a gourd by Debbie Wilson. Debbie Wilson has been accepted into the Carolina Foothills Artisan Center in two categories - carved gourds and dolls-figurines. Maxine Riley was awarded First Place in Basketry at Arts Alive Juried Show, 2007. (Check the Jan./Feb. newsletter for picture). Imogene Williams was awarded Second Place Basketry for her Antler Wall Basket at the same Arts Alive. Dolores von Rosen received 3rd place for her "Silk Fusion over Catfoot Oval" at Arts Alive.
Marianne Barnes and Debbie Wilson were juried into the gourd art show at the USC Sumter show "South Carolina Gourds - A New Perspective." Pati English demonstrated the art of basketry at the SC Artisan Center in Walterboro on Nov. 24. (Check out pictures in Jan./Feb. newsletter). Debbie Wilson also received 1st place in Intermediate Woodworking Gourds in Orangeburg.
BASKET SUPPLIES!!! Marlene Hilman is in charge of the Guild's basket supplies. Marlene lives off of Wade Hampton in Greer. You can contact her at 864-848-3170 or at rmhilman@hotmail.com. LAKELANDS BASKETRY GUILD OF SOUTH CAROLINA On August 23rd, the Lakelands guild held a Christmas Workshop. Fourteen weavers made Christmas stockings, sleighs, and bread baskets. Refreshments of "tube steak" and goodies were delicious. We really looked good in our yellow t-shirts. Our raffle was a great success - thanks to everyone who helped.
The Guild decided on the following dates for the remainder of the year: Remember that the $25 dues will be owed in January. Contact Cheryl Longshore at 803-276-9476 or cheryl.longshore@schousing.com for membership information.
Click here for a membership form. Basket weaver and teacher Laura Lee Zanger has written and published her first novel Spirit Voice. It is a fictional story of Native American life from the mountains of North Carolina to the coast of South Carolina in Pre-colonial America. It is told by an old Cherokee basket weaver as she recalls her past, beginning with her abduction by a group of strangers when she is four years old.
As the Girl of Four Summers she develops a lifelong relationship with her Spirit Voice who guides her through life, the good and the bad. She learns about her world as she travels from the mountains to the ocean along the Great River of the Uchee, Sawanugi and Savannah Peoples. She lives for a while with the Cusabo People of the coast. A family secret is revealed to her when she is a young woman, triggering events that change her life forever.
This story is full of family and tribal dynamics as it is woven around historical facts. It is a journey through time for the reader to follow the long life of Old Woman as she experiences hardship, joy, love, and learning.
This is the first of four books that follow the lives of the old basket weaver’s family. Future books include They Came, Broken, and Reconciliation. For more information contact Laura Lee at dreamweaversent@aol.com
FRIDAY WEAVING!!!
Our "Summertime and the Weave-In is Easy convention was a great success. More than 80 weavers and 12 teachers provided a real learning experience this weekend.
Thanks to everyone who helped make the convention a success. The goody buckets were a hit! The Holiday Inn made us feel welcomed.
The raffle was a great success - even if Laura Lee did not win. Thanks to everyone who donated raffle prizes, goodies for the hospitality room, time at the front desk, and muscle to set up and take down. A list of raffle donors and winners can be viewed here.
Jane Wilson forwarded these pictures.download Jane's Pictures.
KARI LONNING - MARK YOUR CALENDARS.
Marianna also won Best of Gourd Design - Open Division - Ribbon at the
Orangeburg Wood Carver's Show.
Check out the links to the left for Marianne Barnes and the Palemetto Gourd Patch.
New from Laura Lee Zanger
NEW LINK AT LEFT!! Marianne Barnes and Pati English - along with other artists/teachers - have founded an online gourd college. Visit the link to the left (www.gourdcollegeonline.com). As a student, you have one-on-one access with the teacher, a chat room to help you create your basket or gourd, and a timeline that fits your schedule. What a unique way to work with gourds and baskets!!!
JOHN C CAMPBELL: The new John C Campbell catalog (for 2008 - 2009)is available now and lists many wonderful basket workshops and other opportunities to explore. Check out the link at the left.
Directions to Church.
The Board will meet before in September at 5:30 at the Church before the regular Guild meeting.
Any member wishing to bring items before the board is welcomed to contact any board member and especially Maxine Riley and Dolores von Rosen who are our members at large and represented the entire guild.
A "call tree" has been developed to contact members in case of an emergency cancellation. The letter is included in the July/August newsletter that was mailed around July 2nd. The cancellation will also be posted on the website and through e-mails.
The following are the meeting dates for 2007 and 2008. Listed next to the date are the refreshment volunteers. Also listed are the activities we plan for that meeting.
Sept. 4 - Share your favorite basket - handmade, bought, inherited, etc.
Refreshments - Jeri Pool and ?????
Oct. 2 - Christmas Decorations
Refreshments - ??????
Nov. 6 - Small Basket with Sandy Roback
Refreshments - Helen Stauffer and Peg Card
Dec. 4 - Christmas Party
Pati English, President
Peggy McCarson, President-Elect, Newsletter
pmccarson@charter.net
963-1799
Elaine Harmon, Past-President.
Sandy Roback, Treasurer, Hospitality, Membership
Jeri Pool, Secretary
Marlene Hilman, Supplies, 864-848-3170, rmhilman@hotmail.com
Maxine Riley, Member at Large
Dolores von Rosen, Member at Large, Special Events Coordinator dvonrosen@hotmail.com
Ed Brockelbank, Art in the Park
If you would like to join our guild, the membership dues are $15 and the membership year runs from August 1 through July 31. Download the membership application here: Membership Application
Send your check to:
Upper SC Basket Guild
% Sandy Roback, Membership
245 Abigail Lane
Greer, SC 29651
SWAP, SELL, OR BUY
If you are looking for a special pattern, a particular basket supply, post your request here. If you have some patterns, reed, supplies you would like to swap or sell, post your information here. Requests will be posted when received. Contact Peggy McCarson at pmccarson@charter.net to list in this section of the website.
If anyone has the website for Fabian bases (he was at NCBA) please contact Peggy McCarson (pmccarson@charter.net) or Debbie Ogle at debasket@yahoo.com. When we do a "google" for Fabian basket bases the website (through Basketmakers.com) is incorrect.
Napkin Buddy and Silverware Caddy Base - Debbie Ogle is looking for this base like the ones NC Basketworks used to carry for Barbara Gilbert's pattern. If you have one you would like to trade or sell, please contact Debbie at: dogle@greenville.k12.sc.us or 864-355-8967.
