Traditional Coil Basket Making

Traditional Coil Basket Making

Adult | Available

286 Whisconier Rd, PO Box 122 Brookfield, CT 06804 United States

River Room

All Levels

Saturday, June 22, 2024 (one day)

10:00 AM-2:00 PM on Sat

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$103.00

Member Discount Available

Eva Wunnehteou Newell is a Citizen of the Pokanoket Nation.
Eva will include historical perspective in this four hour workshop
  • How environment determines which materials are used in the baskets, and how that changed with colonization and imported materials
  • How purpose effects the shape as well as material and discuss what baskets were used for in Native Communities, particularly here in the Northeast
  • Discuss the use of and meaning of different basket decorations and symbolism, Tribe Specific identification by technique and decorations
  • And finally conclude the series by sharing Baskets by Contemporary Native Tribes and Artisans, and the changes made to traditional basketry to meet the economic needs of the broader society and competition with non-native basket makers from the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990.

  • There is a $4 registration fee included in tuition.

    Members will have the $4 fee deducted from the tuition.
    A $15.00 materials fee is included in the tuition.


    **Class size is limited to 6 students**

    Please note that classes at Brookfield Craft Center must meet a minimum number of registrations for the class to run. Students will be notified within a week's notice whether their class will be held. If the class is canceled due to low enrollment, students may request to be transferred to another class or be refunded in full.

     

    ***This Fiber Arts class will be held in the River Room Studio***
    *** Please note there are several steps to walk down to the River Room Studio ***

Wunnehteou Newell, Eva

Eva Wunnehteou Newell is a citizen of the Pokanoket Tribe, Pokanoket Nation
(Rhode Island) residing in Beacon Falls CT.  
She was educated in Connecticut with B.S, and M.S degrees from Southern Connecticut State
University, and an AFA from Housatonic Community College. She
also studied painting at the Art Student's League in Manhattan, and
mosaics at the Brookfield Craft Center.

In addition to teaching traditional coiled basketry at Brookfield Craft
Center, she leads the basket classes at the Institute for American
Indian Studies in Washington, CT. and Eco Acres in Monroe. Ms.
Newell is best known for her hand-cut stained glass mosaic story
Vases. You can see her work at the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk,
CT, and at the Plimouth Patuxet museum in Plymouth Massachusetts
where the Native Shop has many of her beadwork creations and
baskets as well as her vases. August is Powwow and Heritage day
Festival time for regional Indigenous Tribes, and you may find her
vending her creations at several different locations, and especially the
Pokanoket Tribe Heritage Day Celebration in Warren Rhode Island.