Beginner Willow Basket Weaving

May 18: 10:00 – 4:00 meet at Moab Arts
May 19: 10:00 – 3:00 location TBD

Spend two days learning to weave with Willow, a plant traditionally used for weaving across North America and Europe. We will weave small to medium sized baskets that you will take home and learn some basic techniques for beginner weaving during our time together. On our second day, we will take a field trip to see wild willow patches locally and learn how you can tend your own weaving materials and form relationships with the plants in the local ecosystem for your weaving practice.

Kelly Moody an ethnobotanist who grew up in rural south-central Virginia at her grandmother’s nursery and farm. She spent most of her adult life deepening relationship with plants through various mediums, including dabbling in land-based crafts like weaving. She has a B.A. in Philosophy from Christopher Newport University, has studied print-making, book-binding and paper-making at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, spend several summers learning land-based book-making with Jim Croft in rural Idaho. She has studied weaving, fiber arts, hide tanning, leather craft, pottery and more from countless craftspeople across the country over the last 15 years, many of those years spent traveling or in the field. She is a botany geek and walked the Colorado Trail in 2020 with a friend documenting culturally significant plants. She currently lives in Western Colorado and teaches field ecology courses through the non-profit Groundwork on the Grand Mesa and around the Uncompahgre Plateau. She has run an art + ecology + activism themed podcast called the Ground Shots Podcast since 2017. She makes herbal medicines for the Ground Shots Herbs apothecary, writes about land through her handmade zines and on her

All materials are provided. Class will be held in the Side Yard/Stage Room. Ages 18+

Scholarships available, email marcadmin@moabcity.org for the application or more information.