June 27th & 28th
10:30am-3:30pm

Member: $325
Non-Member: $375
Ages 12+
Limit: 7 participants

Class is full! More coming soon.

EVFAC will proudly be hosting Blaise Cayol for this two day workshop this June! Blaise is a basket maker from the French Alps/Provincal area of France. He has been a part of the IFAM artists for over ten years.

In this two day workshop, Blaise Cayol will demonstrate and teach how to make a willow basket on the base of a round item. I teach in a way that combines French academic basketry, peasant basketry from the French Alps and traditional Provencal basketry from where I live.

Materials instructor will provide:

Students must bring their own Pruning Sheers and Knife

Materials students should provide:

• All materials, including willow will be provided by Blaise Cayol

About Blaise Cayol: Blaise Cayol began weaving baskets in the late 1990s. It's the basis of his craft, and remains a major activity in all his applications. Choosing to make baskets, then gardens, primitive-inspired architecture and other poetic works, means wanting to work with raw natural materials, without mechanical or chemical intervention and with a minimum of tools. It also means pursuing an artifact in the context of contemporary expression, where the purpose of the gesture on raw materials is to provoke emotions.

Generally speaking, since 1997, it's the mountains that inspire Celui qui Tresse, particularly those of the Ubaye Valley, as well as the sacred mountain in southern Utah that protects Navajo territory. It's the shepherds, the trees, the rivers, the horizons and the people who braid wherever he goes that gave him the desire to devote himself to this activity. But above all, it's a way of life and a posture on the road to humility and gratitude towards the living world.

Blaise Cayol has participated in the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market since 2013, and runs workshops in New Mexico, Colorado and California, as well as other exhibitions in the United States.

Please visit Blaise’s Website at: www.celuiquitresse.com

Class cancellation policy: Students will receive a full refund if cancelling up to 10 days before the beginning of the class. No refund within 10 days from the class’s first start date.