Gourd Bowl: Pine Needle Rim with Gloria Skovronsky

Gourds have been used as food utensils, storage containers, masks and musical instruments for centuries. In this hands-on class you will learn how to drill and wrap a hard-shelled Calabash gourd with long California pine needles to create a stunning basket edge. No experience necessary, but we will be working with saws and power drills. Many samples available for you to see! Additional gourds and supplies available for purchase. These gourd bowls make lovely gifts.

Materials: $5

Class Fee: $40.00

Bio: Gloria B. Skovronsky was born in California and moved to Puget Sound in 1985. She has been an arts administrator, a museum curator, and has taught classes and workshops for twenty years. She is a weaver, a quilter, a dyer, a sculptor and has often utilized unusual combinations of materials and objects in her structures. Her work often relates to fantasy and memory and the mystery of time. "My father was a carpenter," she says. "I grew up in a garage that was redolent with the smell of sawdust and my happiest moments were when playing with old coffee cans filled with nuts and bolts. I was taught the needle arts by my mother when I was a child, and I continue to explore the inexplicable reassurance of pattern and interlacement in most of my work."