Our 4-day Sculptural Basket Weaving Intensive is coming up in June! This workshop will take participants through a variety of form building, dyeing and weaving techniques for pattern motifs, and so much more! We have 3 spaces left!
Beginning Sculptural Basketry is a 1-day workshop this Saturday in our new space! If you’ve been curious and wanting to try 3D weaving, now’s the moment! We need two more sign ups, and we hope it’ll be you!
📣LAST CALL 📣 to register for Light Forms! A 4-week fiber design class exploring basket weaving as a method for making sculptural lighting.
Pictured: @jenniferllinton w/her pendant light from our last Light Forms class.💡🌟
The Weaving Workshop’s new space was wonderfully warmed this weekend with the very first workshop here: Sculptural Basketetry!
A few highlights:
1. Cecile’s new sculptural piece
2. Ellen loved neat weave
3. Charlotte was inspired and going for it!
4 Ashley wove a hate among other things—see 5.
What a wonderful way to OFFICIALLY open the new space !!
R-E-A-D-Y-!!!
We soft open this Saturday with the very first Sculptural Basket Weaving class starting at 10a!
Are there still things left to do, yes! (Asign on the building, more lights to install, a few more shelves to build, some special things I want to make for the bathroom) Am I opening anyway? YES!
The major stuff is done! Tables -n- chairs ✅ finished bathroom✅, utility sink✅ materials✅ lights and electricity and a/c✅
Planning an open house party for May to celebrate our grand opening! It’s been wonderful meeting all our new neighbors and being so warmly welcomed to Pilsen.
She’s GLOWING from within!
@the_weaving_workshop re-opens THIS SATURDAY April 25 in the brand new space in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood. I can’t believe this is real!
I founded the school in late 2024 and for a year and a half, nearly every weekend I taught every single class out of my personal studio/home. I am so excited to move my personal belongings back into my bathroom and to not have to keep my studio clean.
But more importantly, I’m excited the school finally has its own space where more classes taught by other artists can take place, and participants can use the new space as their own. The life and soul of The Weaving Workshop are the people who come together to make things here.
The expertise of Sandy Gerding, @mojobunda has been profoundly life changing for me and the school this past year and a half. This year in 2026, Sandy and I created The Slath Founders Circle, with fiscal sponsorship by Fractured Atlas. The word Slath is a basket weaving term, meaning the central foundation or base of a basket. Nothing can grow without a solid foundation.
As I begin the process toward the school becoming a 501(c)3 non-profit, The Slath Founders Circle is an invitation I’ve been extending to folks with an intention to build a visionary advisory circle and early support. I am truly excited to see the school grow beyond myself into a place where artistic endeavors linked to historical + traditional art forms can tap the zeitgeist and create something new and needed, while also encouraging the value and belief that art making fosters mutual understanding, personal development, social cohesion, societal health, community building, human connection, neighborly bonds and builds a sense of shared identity.
At first I just wanted to teach and no one would hire me. I didn’t know how deeply I cared about this until I started it. And now here we are:
No turning back now! 🚀🌙
Today we want to highlight The Weaving Workshop, an artist-led school founded by artist Dee Clements, and based in Chicago🏙️✨
The space is dedicated to basketry, off loom and 3-D weaving, and fiber craft. Welcoming all skill levels, workshops emphasize hands-on learning, community, and creativity. Where traditional craft intersects with art and design, and where material language is expanded through creativity in basketry and fiber craft🌱
The founder of the Weaving Workshop, Dee Clements, is going to give a virtual artist talk with the LA Tactile Lab next month. Come out and support an incredible artist who cultivating an incredible craft and artistic community in the midwest🖌️
Online Artist Talk with Dee Clements🧺🌿🔮
Wednesday, May 20th
5:30pm-6:30pm
RSVP with the in link in our bio🌀
#latactilelab #losangeles #workshops #artisttalk #artistlectureseries
Coming up in May🌱✨
Virtual artist talk with Chicago based artist and the founder of The Weaving Workshop Dee Clements. Don’t miss this incredible conversation🌾
Dee Clements is an artist, educator, and founder of The Weaving Workshop with interests in materials, craft, and ethnography. She holds an MFA in 3D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Fiber and Materials Studies and Sculpture from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago.
She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and the Centerfor Craft Teaching Artist Grant. Her work is in the permanent collections of Cranbrook Art Museum, The Anderson Collection at Stanford University, and Yale University Art Gallery. Her work is represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery, Library Street Collective, and Onna House. She grew up in the Mohawk Valley area of New York State, and has lived and worked in Chicago since 1998.
Online Artist Talk with Dee Clements🧺🌿🔮 @studio_herron@the_weaving_workshop
Wednesday, May 20th
5:30pm-6:30pm
RSVP with the in link in our bio🌀
#latactilelab #losangeles #workshops #artisttalk #artistlectureseries
The dream is almost real!!!
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@the_weaving_workshop ‘s NEW space will open next 🌟Saturday April 25 🌟 welcoming the first class; beginning Sculptural Basketry.
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Somehow, I’ve managed to get this space ready in the span of 3 weeks, while putting on a big solo art fair show, travelling to teach, and surviving an upper respiratory infection. 💪
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I truly cannot wait to move things in next week, open the doors and start welcoming people and the soul into this little school.
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This little dream of creating a school for hands-on learning, community and creativity centered around basketry, fiber craft and material studies is ALIVE. ☘️
Friends! Our new studio is almost ready!
Dee here, to share updates: I’ve been busy building furniture and getting this bright airy space ready to welcome you!
Our first class in this new space is April 25th, and all classes are open now for registration.
Our NEW location is at 1616 W. 18th Place, in Chicago’s beautiful Pilsen neighborhood. We are a stones throw from the National Museum of Mexican Art🇲🇽
Hi! A lil peek at The Weaving Workshop’s new home. It’ll be ready and open for classes next week!
The lights are installed and so is the bathroom. I spent today building shelving units, and the work tables are almost done! Still gotta get chairs and move everything in.
Can’t wait to welcome you all to our new home at 1616 W. 18th Place in Chicago’s beautiful Pilsen neighborhood!
Visit the website and sign up for a class.🌷🌱
