WEAVING WORKSHOP: PALM FROND BASKETRY
Saturday, March 28, 2026, from 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
$40 Members | $45 Non-Members
Join local artist Maria Maea in a three-hour workshop that combines both traditional basketry and uniquely Angeleno sensibilities. Surrounded by Craftsman architecture and views of the Arroyo Seco, participants will learn about Los Angeles’ complex history with palm trees through weaving and honorable harvest foraging. Leave this workshop with your very own handwoven palm basket and an enduring respect for this intricate craft and its connection to California.
This class is intended for ages 16 and up – no experience required. All materials provided.
For additional basket inspiration, visit the exhibition From Strand to Sculpture: Contemporary Japanese Basketry on view at the Gamble House from Thursday, February 5 to Sunday, April 12.
About the artist:
Maria Maea (b. 1988, Long Beach, CA) utilizes assemblage and process-based figurative sculptures and installations to illuminate the relationship between land and the body, specifically focused on narratives around immigrant families and their labor in Los Angeles. Her research focuses on equitable futures and climate justice through food and water accessibility in marginalized communities. Through her use of materials such as concrete, rebar, found objects, fruiting plants, seeds, and woven palm fronds foraged across Los Angeles, Maea creates future ancestor sculptures that act as intimate portraits of family and community as well as abstract cartography of the LA urban landscape. Many of her works structurally contain seed pods that over time will crumble to dust, leaving only the viable seed behind. Through the act of propagation and stewardship the artworks become multi-generational. These works seek to expand and complicate our relationship to issues around justice, stewardship, contamination and preservation.
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