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Folk & Traditional Arts

Celebrate our region's vibrant cultural heritage by attending a folk & traditional arts workshop at Arbutus Folk School. Supported with funding from Northwest Heritage Resources, a Washington state cultural non-profit organization, these workshops are a chance to try your hand at something new while meeting and working with master artists and culture bearers of the Pacific Northwest.

Cedar Bark Basket
Makah Tribal Style Cedar Bark Basket
Ages 18 and older
Takes place at Millersylvania State Park - Kitchen Shelter #1

In this two-day class hosted at Millersylvania State Park, you will weave a 4 to 5-inch cedar bark spiral basket with Melissa Peterson. Melissa Peterson is a Makah tribal member living on the Makah reservation and weaving Makah traditional & contemporary basket for 53 years. Melissa collects and processes all of the materials used in her basketry. She has been a cultural arts specialist for 40 years, teaching multiple generations, and shares her knowledge with non-tribal folks interested in Makah basketry as well. Class takes place in an open-air CCC shelter in Millersylvania State Park. Students should bring a small knife like a pocket knife, a pair of scissors, and a small basin for water.

This folk & traditional arts workshop is supported with funding from Northwest Heritage Resources, a Washington state cultural non-profit organization, and presented in partnership with the Washington State Parks Folk & Traditional Arts Program.

Class fee waived for members of regional tribes. Please contact info@arbutusfolkschool.org to register and have your fee waived.

Show Description

Fee: $152.00
Instructor: Melissa Peterson

Capacity Remaining: 3
Schedule Details:

Dates: 9/11/2021 - 9/12/2021
Times: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Sessions: 2

Days: Su Sa
Building: Millersylvania State Park

Room: Kitchen Shelter #1

Make a Miniature Basket with Maria Godines
Ages 14 and up welcome!

Class takes place at Arbutus Folk School.

Learn basket-making skills in miniature by creating a tiny root basket with Warm Springs Wasco artist Maria Godines. Students will weave the basket as well as create a bead & bone necklace from which students may choose to hang their basket as a pendant. Yarn forms the body of the basket with a rim of buckskin added along the top. Finished basket will be about 1 3/4 inches high and 1 1/4 inches in diameter. This folk & traditional arts workshop is supported with funding from Northwest Heritage Resources, a Washington state cultural non-profit organization.

Show Description

Fee: $66.00
Instructor: Maria Godines

Capacity Remaining: 9
Schedule Details: Sunday, 9 am to 1 pm

Dates: 8/15/2021 - 8/15/2021
Times: 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Sessions: 1

Days: Su
Building: Arbutus Folk School

Room: Ceramic Studio

Sew Moccasins with Maria Godines
Class takes place at Arbutus Folk School.

Create buckskin moccasins with Maria Godines. Open to students ages 14 and older.

This folk & traditional arts workshop is supported with funding from Northwest Heritage Resources, a Washington state cultural non-profit organization.

Class fee waived for members of regional tribes. Please contact info@arbutusfolkschool.org to register and have your fee waived.

Show Description

Fee: $110.00
Instructor: Maria Godines

Capacity Remaining: 8
Schedule Details: 9 am to 5 pm with a half hour lunch break

Dates: 8/14/2021 - 8/14/2021
Times: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sessions: 1

Days: Sa
Building: Arbutus Folk School

Room: Ceramic Studio

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Email: Info@ArbutusFolkSchool.org

Message phone: (360) 350-0187

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Olympia, WA 98501

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Funding for Arbutus Folk School has been provided by Humanities Washington and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act economic stabilization plan of 2020, and by a grant from the Washington State Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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