February 1st will be here soon! That day, all of our 2025 classes will be open for registration and the class descriptions, along with complete information, will be available on our website. Featured on the cover of the 2025 brochure are willow baskets made by Jo Campbell-Amsler. Jo first came to Sievers as a student in Char TerBeest-Kudla’s 1981 Willow Basketry class and began offering rib-style willow classes in 1991. This year will mark the 58th class she has offered at Sievers. Jo has also been a student here several times, coordinates the annual Willow Gathering at Sievers with Lee Zieke Lee and organizes and hosts international basketry tours. Thank you, Jo, for all you share with your students, with […]
2023 Sievers Preview
February 1st will be here in only three weeks! That day, all of our 2023 classes will be open for registration and the class descriptions, along with complete information, will be available on our website. The site will be in “maintenance mode” soon, but available again for registration on February 1. Featured on the cover of the 2023 brochure are some of the many colorful splint-woven baskets made by Jeanette Biederman. Thank you, Jeanette, for all the beautiful baskets and equally beautiful friendships you’ve made with us and your students over the past 32 years! Many of our instructors are returning in 2023 and we welcome two new teachers this year, Joyce Gitter and John Rezachek. Both Joyce and John […]
Three classes: Part one
With three classes in session during the first full week of August (Finding our Way: A Dyeing Journey with Stephanie Robertson and two classes, Beads! Glorious Beads! and Embroidery: Basics & Beyond taught by Francie Broadie), there were just too many fun things to show in just one post. Stephanie’s class had a 5-day or 7-day option, giving students the ability to extend their time in the studio and continue to experiment with silk screening, mono-printing and direct painting. There are opportunities for rust and indigo dyeing, shibori, ice dyeing, sun printing and every year, new explorations. It is so exciting to see the stages of the printed fabrics with new layers of colors and designs being added each time […]
Three at a time
We’re back on schedule now with this post which covers three classes held in early August; Beading: Composing Components with Francie Broadie, the Beadwork Alumni Studio and Finding Our Way: A Dyeing Journey with Stephanie Lewis Robertson. We were very happy to welcome Francie and this new class to our 2021 schedule. Francie first came to Sievers in 2009 as a student in a Diane Fitzgerald beadwork class and has gone on to take many more beadwork as well as several fabric printing and dyeing classes here. She taught a workshop at the Sievers Gathering in 2018 and was scheduled to offer Composing Components in 2020. This was another new class that was long overdue! Students worked on creating rings, […]
