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During this class you will learn how to sustainably collect willow as well as the fundamentals of making a basket using the twining method. Lewis will also teach the difference between pre-contact and post-contact wicker baskets.

Christopher Lewis currently serves as a director on the Bears Ears Partnership Board of Directors. The Bluff Arts Festival is grateful to BEP for hosting this workshop. 

From Bears Ears Partnership:

Christopher J. Lewis lives in the village of Zuni Pueblo, located in Southwestern New Mexico. He is a member of the Badger Clan and a child of the Corn Clan. He is a fiber artist, basket and textile scholar.

Over the last 12 years, Christopher has worked to revive basketry in Zuni, as well as worked with other Pueblos to revive their textile arts. Christopher also works on the Cedar Mesa Perishables Project as a Native Scholar. He has studied Ancient Perishables such as baskets, textiles, wood, and feather work from the Greater Southwest Housed in Major Museums. He now works to revive some of the prehistoric basket technology that he is studying.