Join Anishinabe wigwas (birch bark) artist, Helen Pelletier, and make a birch bark basket!
Start the class learning about wigwas and cutting out your pattern. Spend the day working with bark, spruce roots, cedar, and learning about birch bark while Helen walks you through the making of your basket. Leave with a beautiful finished mukuk and the skills to make another.
The finished basket base measures 4.5" x 4.5" the height is about 7" and the top opening is approximately 5" x 6".
This workshop makes a terrific gift and there is no experience necessary!
💲210/person
🛶 We are excited to welcome Helen Pelletier as part of our Builders in Residence Program, which welcomes canoe and kayak builders and makers from across the country to share their skills, stories, and knowledge in an immersive, hands-on setting. Learn more at canoemuseum.ca/builders
ABOUT HELEN PELLETIER
Helen Pelletier is an Anishinabe kwe from Fort William First Nation. Helen has worked with Wiigwas for twenty years and recently developed a relationship with winter birchbark and sgraffito style etching. Helen credits her Wiigwas knowledge to family, community, elders, and friends. Helen has exhibited her work in “Their Breath in Beads” (2019) and the Northern Ontario Juried Exhibition in 2019 and 2022 at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery. Helen also exhibited her work at the Indigenous Fashion Arts Festival marketplace in the Northern Ontario Spotlight in 2020, and in a solo show, wiigwas Manidoog descendants, at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery in 2023. Her current show, Wiigwas Manidoog Visiting lək̓ʷə
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