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I will be presenting an Artist Salon Talk at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art on Wednesday, March 26 at 6 PM. I will discuss my woven Power Garments, my love affair with indigo dye, and my baskets which are currently featured at the Museum Store. This will be the first Salon talk of the 2008 season. The Museum exhibit "Fabric of Cultures: Fashion, Identity, Globalization" will provide an interesting background to my talk. http://www.mocfa.org.

My coiled waxed linen basket called Tajine II has been selected for Beyond Basketry 2008 at the Dairy Barn Art Center, Athens Ohio from May 23 to September 1, 2008. The exhibit will travel until 2010. Ohio University Press is publishing a catalogue.

I will be participating in the Baulines Craft Guild exhibit at the lovely Falkirk Mansion, 1408 Mission Avenue, San Rafael, CA from June 13 to August 17. This is a collaborative exhibit with the Wine Country Wood Turners. I have dyed indigo napkins for the Dining room installation and have worked on basket repairs and additions to the beautiful turned wood bowls entrusted to me by Chuck Quibell and Hugh Buttrum. I have also collaborated with decorative metalworker Griffe Griffiths on a lidded basket. This new way of working collaboratively has been is very exciting to me and I hope to do more. Come to Falkirk Mansion and take a look!

At Convergence 2008, I will one of 17 artists in an invitational exhibit called Weaving and Resist curated by Catherine Ellis at the Hillsborough Community College Ybor Art Gallery, Tampa Bay, Florida, from June 24 to July 31, 2008.

I have been selling my baskets and woven works at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art since it moved to the new location on Yerba Buena Lane in downtown San Francisco.

I thoroughly enjoyed teaching the Textiles I class at San Francisco State University last summer! This class covered an exploration in textile techniques including weaving, surface design, and three dimensional techniques. This was the first time in ages that a textile class is was taught in summer school at SFSU. I will continue to serve as a Teaching Assistant in the Textile Classes in the Art Department at San Francisco State University. Candace Crockett has retired and Victor DeLaRosa has assumed the position in the renamed department of Textiles and New Media. I am enjoying working with this talented and dynamic new member of the SFSU staff.

I am a Master Member of the prestigious Baulines Craft Guild and enjoy participating in all of their activities including several annual exhibits. http://www.baulinescraftguild.org

I look forward to giving more workshops on Indigo Dyeing, Shibori, Surface Design for Handweavers, and Basketry Techniques.

Finally, if you are looking for a good reason to travel to France in 2008, please consider the 7th International Shibori Symposium October 30 to November 9 in Provence, Lyon and Paris. http://www.shibori.org.