The River Pierce Foundation will host a Basket Weaving Workshop by artist Sarita Westrup in San Ygnacio on March 28 at the Treviño-Uribe Fort (604 Treviño St).
The free workshop begins at 10 a.m. and concludes at 2 p.m. Space is limited, and registration is required at riverpierce.org. All materials will be provided.
Workshop participants will learn an open-weave pattern to create a functional bulb basket in a single session. Woven in the round “in your lap,” these baskets take on a beautiful, organic shape. This is an introductory course for anyone interested in the art of basketry.
Instructor Sarita Westrup is a craft-based artist and contemporary basket weaver originally from the Rio Grande Valley. Through the use of mixed media and woven sculptural forms, her work explores themes of tension, movement, and containment, joined and permeable space, and the bi-cultural aesthetics of her home.
She has an MFA in Fiber Arts from the University of North Texas. Most recently her work has been shown in “Flow States-La Trienal” at El Museo del Barrio in NYC, in “The Weight of Wonder” at the Penland Gallery in Penland, NC, and in “Holding Space: Woven Works” at Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, NY.
Her work has been published in American Craft and Surface Design Journal Magazine.
Westrup is currently an artist-in-residence at the Penland School of Craft in Western North Carolina and is represented by Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas.
